By turning his efforts to the inside game, the president is momentarily turning away from the “campaign style” tours around the country, which he had hoped would help put pressure on Washington lawmakers. Some might suggest the switch renders a final verdict on the folly of pursuing that kind of outside game. It doesn’t. Campaigning […]
John Dickerson Halts This Week’s Nonsense Juggernaut. Or At Least He Tries To.
Employment Situation
This was one of the better employment reports of this cycle. Private payroll employment grew 246,00while government employment fell about 10,000 for a net gian of of 236,000. The household survey also showed a nice gain of 170,000. On a year over year change basis both series are showing nice gains. You would never […]
Innovation, production, and infrastrucutre
Stormy, Movie Guy, and Dan Becker in 2009 have been writing about trade imbalances and consequences since 2006. An excerpt from one of Dan’s posts: I have written at AB that my thoughts about when the flash point was for our change to a focus on making money from money was the first Reagan election. […]
Innovation and production
Yves Smith points to a MIT study on how much bigger the conversation should be than the political arguments of offshoring and outsourcing suggest. And the complexities of applying ‘just in time’ sorts of global production systems through a complicated supply chain. From that post is this excerpt: And a new report by MIT on innovation […]
The Republican Party and the National Debt
Mike Kimel from Angry Bear 2007 described another aspect to be kept in mind during the current austerity policy debates. The Republican Party and the National Debt Posted by cactus | 12/04/2007 Public Agenda is asking bloggers to contribute to a discussion on the National Debt they call Facing Up. These are my thoughts on […]
Turns Out I Was Wrong. Nate Silver HAS Been Asked to Analyze John Roberts’ Voting-Statistics Usage. But By The New York Times, Not By John Roberts. Oh, Well.
In this post last weekend, I lamented that Roberts hadn’t asked Nate Silver to weigh in on the voting statistics Roberts employed at the argument last week in the Voting Rights Act case. I also said Roberts & Friends were unlikely to ask him to weigh in on it. Which I’m sure is accurate. But […]
Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia Say the Confederacy Won the Civil War and the Purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments Was to Reinforce Rather Than Diminish State Sovereignty. (Except on Affirmative Action, the Second Amendment, and Real Estate Property “Takings.”)
Leaving race aside for the moment (did someone mention that the Voting Rights Act has something to do with empowering black voters – who just might, for some strange reason, prefer Democrats?), what the court’s conservatives seem to see in Section 5 is a threat to state sovereignty — the “sovereign dignity” of the states, […]
Health Care Thoughts: The CPR Kerfluffle
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: The CPR Kerfluffle According to numerous media reports: On February 26th, Lorraine Bayless, an 87 year old resident of the Glendale Gardens independent living facility, collapsed in the dining hall. Someone called 911, and eventually a person identifying herself as a “nurse” was on the call (whether […]
Middle Class Melt
Since I got preempted posting the inequality video at AB, I thought I’d offer this as a follow-up. H/T to Rachel Maddow.