You may have noted that there are green links appearing in posts. This is a mistake on someone’s part and is not a feature Angry Bear endorses nor tolerates. I am in the process of finding out and correcting. It is being done separately from the normal editing function. Please be patient……. Update: Ah hah. […]
Lifted from an e-mail from coberly We learn why they hate social security: NCPSSM e-mail (update)Apparently, these are the “good-old days” our nation’s fiscal hawks relish. The Peterson Foundation’s David Walker co-hosted CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning (personally, we yearn for the good-old days when so-called “news” shows were hosted by journalists—not partisan advocates—but that’s […]
by Mike Kimel Looking at Mitch Daniel’s Single Organizational Goal So I took a break form useful work and wandered over to a few right wing blogs to see what’s going on at that end of the world. Here’s how the latest post at Betsy’s Page starts: Andrew Ferguson profiles Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana. […]
by Linda Beale Crossposted with Ataxingmatter Carried Interest: Senate Getting Swayed by Lobbyists The Senate started discussion of the “extenders” legislation on Tuesday. IN the House version, HR 4213, there is finally a carried interest provision, though it is a weak one. (Recall that carried interest is the amount that managers of hedge, equity and […]
Robert Waldmann Nick Rowe asks a very interesting question. After the jump I attempt an answer Please read Rowe’s post first. The following will make no sense at all if you don’t (note reading Rowe’s post is a necessary not a sufficient condition for it to make sense). The short explanation is that Rowe finds […]
Late last month there was a debate among several bloggers over an article by Scott Sumner over US growth after the Reagan revolution. In the debate it was suggested that it would behelpful to do the analysis by looking at the various components of GDP–consumption, investment, government and trade . I was sidetracked on other […]
by Mark Thomaauthor for Economist’s View and Maximum Utility Where Will the Good Jobs Come From? I have emphasized short-run job creation quite a bit recently, and I have noted, implicitly at least, that we shouldn’t be too picky about the quality of the jobs that are created. Most jobs will do. But in the […]
First, go read Henry on the lambasting of, especially, Turkey by U.S. idiots. Apparently, any U.N. vote is wholly the responsibility of everyone except the people who presented the resolution. Note also that the editorial page has a much more interesting piece on economics than all those Zogby myths. Maybe more about that later, but […]
La Dolce Vita blog from Arizona points us to a SCOTUS decision: Ever since Gore v Bush it has become apparent that the US Supreme Court has taken it upon themselves to occasionally decide the outcome of US elections. Yesterday they demonstrated this ability again when they decided to block funding for three of the […]
One of the memes used to justify corporate actions is ‘things are done to increase shareholder value’. We all know ‘value’ can be interpreted in different ways, oft times after the fact of actions since shareholder participation has rather cumbersome mechanisms for participation. Maybe a new way will emerge to aid greater participation of more […]