The WSJ wants to pretend that Barack Obama is responsible for Canada making a good decision: Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France signed an agreement Friday to begin negotiations for a free trade pact between Canada and the European Union. A Canada-EU study released last week outlines the joint economic benefits […]
However, it’s just a Republican in California. Who are re-registering people to be Republicans, without their knowledge, on the guise of opposing child molestation. (h/t Laura Rosen) Will wait patiently for John McCain’s attack on Mark Jacoby (not this one).
Yes, I’m still distracted (and under deadlines), but this is too good to pass up. Greg Mankiw sends us to “Wisdom from Michael Kinsley.” Which turns out to be this: There is no need to encourage risk-taking entrepreneurship with special tax breaks. Risk takers will take risks, and if the risks work out they shouldn’t […]
The McCain campaign appears to have stopped talking about how Barack Obama is a “celebrity.” Sarah Palin = Judge Lance Ito? Discuss amongst yourselves.
EDITED TO CLARIFY APPARENT CONFUSION: The evil* Aaron Shiff of 26econ.com [edited to clarify that he is not—to my knowledge, at least—the Aaron in Coventry] discovered Google Web History. Being a natural follower, I checked my own breakdown. It appears I do a lot of Google searching during the two hours the children are Not […]
Via Kathryn (who previously pointed us to a similar exercise for the U.S. election), Theo Gray expands on the work of Tommy McCall (as published in the NYT under the title “Bulls, Bears, Donkeys, and Elephants,” which was glibly dismissed by Greg Mankiw*). While his conclusion will be heartening to Brad DeLong: And one more […]
A picture is worth 1,000 words. Any claims that George W. Bush is, or even was, a “small-government” conservative will be deleted with cause. Cause:
“There will be lots of things to fill it back up again, Michelle.” (about 3:15 in) Still waiting.
Right now, Hank Paulson has two choices. or Right now, he claims to be pushing toward the second, but isn’t getting out of the cab.
It appears that the word of the month is Melamine, and that a lot of those large bags of semibiodegradeable candy may have been imported from China.