Peter Dorman at Econospeak writes a gem of a post asking readers to ask simple questions when offered a morality tale by journalists, or an implied cause and effect tale, and how it takes no special skill to ask simple business questions that the journalist should at least ask, even if not o tanswer all […]
Ezra Klein has an even more interesting than usual column on feverish demand for the services of Obama campaign data wonks. After Obama’s reelection, former adviser David Axelrod recalls that “one of the first calls I got was, ‘Who are the young geniuses? We want to find out if we can hire thwe”[skip]it’s the tech […]
Lifted by Dan from Robert’s Stochastic thoughts Robert writes: I was reasonably sure that the latest Ruth Marcus column would cause me to have to revise and update my earlier post declaring her a heroine of Ballance. She comments on the fact that Republican representatives live-tweeted snark during the question and answer session with […]
by Linda Beale (op-ed) Same-Sex Marriage In Illinois? No Basis for Objection In the US today, 9 states and the District of Colombia have legalized same-sex marriages and 9 states (counting Colorado, where the legislature passed a civil union bill on March 13) have legalized some form of civil union or domestic partnership for same-sex […]
New study finds wealthy are different? via Alternet. Since today and yesterday is shaping up to be deficit days in posts from me, this note caught my attention: One especially significant difference between the opinions of the wealthy and the population as a whole centers on deficit reduction. According to a study cited by Demos, […]
Reader rjs has a link filled write up on the budget proposals coming out last week with a note on the economic thoughts on the matter: There was quite a bit of unwarranted buzz around the blogosphere about a number of budget plans that were introduced early this week, all of which were likely an […]
Since I put a ‘liberal’ name in a previous post, I will also put up a ‘conservative’ name on budget balances: Menzie Chin at Econbrowser points to other CBO numbers… The Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance: Shrinking Rapidly The CBO has just released estimates of the cyclically adjusted budget balance (or, specifically, the budget balance without automatic […]
Michael Linden from Center for American Progress addresses one aspect of using CBO projections, especially the June 2012 report. Best to walk it through with him based on the June report and subsequent reports…good for several posts more is how the current situation is still improving on the debt to GDP ratio so much talked […]
Shortly Angry Bear will be making the switch from Blogger to WordPress. Blogger has served us well for ten years, but WordPress provides a much greater flexibility and capacity for our material. Reader rjs comments on Google reader coming to an end which won’t affect us as a blog, but certainly impacts users: I imagine […]
by Mike Kimel Revealed Preference This week came news that Rob Portman, a Republican senator from Ohio, is bucking his party and reversing his own long-held position on gay marriage. Now that his son has come out as gay, he supports it. From an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer by reporter Sabrina Eaton: Republican […]