Via Barry Rithotz at The Big Picture comes Bruce Bartlett’s take on : Bruce Bartlett and the dangers of Republican know-nothingism Bruce Bartlett goes off on some of the denialist behavior from the GOP. Bartlett writes: When a study doesn’t support their dogma, the GOP censors it: Nonpartisan Tax Report Withdrawn After G.O.P. Protest Original study […]
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Business Model Angst For the past two months I have been absorbed more so than usual in health care strategic and regulatory compliance issues. One of the top trends is the scramble for a workable business model for providers. The announcement this week of the Beaumont system […]
Angry Bear 2013-14: Top Anglo Saxon Finance blogs Top 25 Onalytical Indexes in top 30 Inomics top economics blog list Angry Bear 2012: made it to 21st on the list in popularity and influence this time around at Onalytica Indexes Angry Bear 2011: Mindful Money posted at Minyanville named Angry Bear among some of the […]
Stolen from an e-mail from coberly and worth a comment or two I think: …”the free market” adjusts… freely… to taxes the way it adjusts to any other “scarcity.” but apparently economics has not discovered this fact.
ProGrowthLiberal at Econospeak reminds us of a central tenet myth of this electoral campaign, and an example of political pressure on information sources: Tax Policy: You Can’t Handle the Truth Sahil Kapur reports on something that does not surprise me on two levels: The author of a Congressional Research Service study, who found no evidence […]
This was another mixed employment report. The headline increase of 171,000 increase in payroll employment and 410,000 rise in employment reported in the household survey appeared strong. But other signs of weakness appeared within the report. The 184,000 increase in private payroll employment was the strongest since February. The unemployment rate ticked up from 7.8 […]
(Dan here… This one is still relevant. I let it hang in drafts by mistake.) by Linda Beale Romney shows he’s a “know-it-all” who has no real ideas at all. I missed almost all of the first debate but watched most of this second one. My quick sum-up of the action was the Obama was […]
Matthew Yglesias points the direction in his post: the Geographically smallest Electoral College map, which starts with the densest states and works down: If Democrats can bring Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida (or even two or three of them) firmly into the Democratic camp, the game is over for the foreseeable future. Those states […]
I’ve often commented on how childish, really adolescent, the views of libertarians are. But it’s rare that I see such a stunning example. In a recent NYT “Room for Debate,” Russell Sobel of The Citadel gives us this: Fixing disaster relief is simple: greater use of decentralized markets, and focusing government on its proper role. […]