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Paul Krugman points us to problems with economic writing by Moore: Last summer the editorial page editor of the Kansas City Star declared that she won’t be running any more op-eds by Stephen Moore, chief economist of the Heritage Foundation. She had cause: Moore had published an article that purported to refute my debunking of claims […]

Lifted from Robert Waldmann’s Stochastic Thoughts TARP Bottom Line TARP Books Closed (give or not give less than $ 1 billion). According to Lew, the total profit for American taxpayers on TARP investments stands at $15.35 billion. The NYT report added, “Less than $1 billion in taxpayer funds remain scattered in about 35 community banks […]

From: ASPCA Today at 10:41 AM To: me We’re so close to our goal. Unsubscribe | View Online | Please add [email protected] to your contacts. Dear Beverly,Earlier this week we sent an email about a last-minute tax deduction, and the response we received was more than we ever could have hoped for: Thousands of animal-lovers all around the country donated to help […]

Yves Smith adds her thoughts on possibilities of the market price decline for oil: When the Saudis announced their intention not to support oil prices when they were sliding towards $90 and plunged quickly through that level, we deemed the move to be a masterstroke. It served to damage both economic and political enemies. On […]

Lifted from comments: Dean Baker adds a comment on Spencer England’s post on Part time employment statistics being (Spencer writes…”John R. Graham is a beautiful example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. The researchers at the right wing think tanks scour the economic releases for anything that they can spin to sell their […]

Noah Smith states that there is no “cycle” to the business cycle. (link) My response on twitter was, “…there can be definable limits without a cycle.” Can we define the limit of a business cycle? I have a model that describes what a limit to the business cycle might look like in terms of a […]

Stephen Williamson wrote a critique of this post which critique was praised by David Andolfato and Noah Smith. Williamson critiques the Keynesianism defined as So, as I learned from Dick Lipsey in 1975, and my cat learned last fall, Keynesian Cross is (1) C = A + cY, (2) Y = C + I + […]