by divorced one like Bush Gather all around the camp fire and enjoy your marsh mellow toasting as I tell you the fable of the “The Guitar Player who sold his gear”. Long ago in a far away land of rock and roll there was a young man who played well. Not great, wasn’t going […]
Robert Waldmann I am actually commenting on a snippet with a useless link here. Professor Krugman’s article, like much of his journalism, was hastily drafted and factually incorrect. [skip] One of the most humorous aspects of the article was its view that the efficient markets hypothesis was at the heart of the inability to see […]
rdan Hat tip Noni Mausa: Tom Toles in the Washington Post offers us a grim reminder of the average persons’ problems and anticipations:
After the London train bombings the following website and its credo went up.We are not afraid We are not afraid to ride public transportation. We are not afraid to walk down a crowded street. We are not afraid of each other. We are not afraid to say that terrorism in any form is never the […]
Robert Waldmann I can’t believe this “Illegal Immigrants Could Not Buy Insurance on New ‘Exchange,’ White House Says” So a rude idiot shouts “you lie” and Obama decides he has to punish undocumented aliens. This is not about subsidies which were clearly not on offer yesterday. This is about making it harder for them to […]
Robert Waldmann In response to a critical comment, I have decided to actually read the article which I stopped reading when it said the Journal of Monetary Economics was a must publish journal for young economists. Ryan Grim asserts that economists don’t criticize the Fed because the Fed has bought control of the economics profession.I […]
by Bruce Webb Arguments were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week as to whether restrictions on corporate political donations were constitutional or whether those corporations are protected by the First Amendment. Court watchers report that signs are that the Robert’s Court will so rule with the ruling due to be handed down around […]
So I ran DataFerret in Batch mode. (I’m using other data and thought I would be nice. Never again, apparently.) Got the popup that said, “We’re gonna do it, dude. You can pick it up later at URL.” And the URL was (1) complicated and (2) not copyable from the popup. Haven’t gotten an e-mail […]
I will start an open thread for mid-week as well, per requests, to include such topics as are not covered otherwise or can be expanded in ways not done in main posts.