hat tip CoRev The famous Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced Pee-Ka-Boo) is not just an athlete…she is now a nurse currently working at an Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She is not permitted to answer the hospital telephones any longer. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and […]

Without further comment, since I’m trying to avoid figuring out how stupid the McCain Machine thinks female voters will be, even as their house organ (CNN) continues to declare that Obama is “not ready.”

…how are people who, eight years ago, were proudly displaying “Sore/Loserman” bumper stickers going to react if/when McCain announces Loserman as his pick for VP?* UPDATE: Otoh, if the NYT and Reuters are correct, any claim that Obama is “too inexperienced to be President” just went out the window. *This is not necessarily going to […]

by tin man and rdan Paul Krugman said some thing in the NYT. We wondered about these questions too. What was the mechanism for the leveling of healthcare costs in the Clinton ‘90s? (If they did actually level?) What was the mechanism for the same to skyrocket as they have in the past 8 years.(What […]

By One Salient Oversight Summary: Oil prices are dropping as demand destruction bites. But thatdoesn’t invalidate Peak Oil. Supply limits will continue to exist evenwhen oil prices and demand drops. This means that the price of oil willstill be too high even when the economy is at its lowest ebb. Quotes:——————–The economic stress caused by […]

Sorry I’m slow posting this, but I was busy elsewhere yesterday. To understand the real GDP report you need to look at the monthly data. Real GDP is a measure of output. But we do not directly measure output. Rather, we measure consumption and adjust that for changes in trade and inventories to indirectly measure […]

On vacation, and I miss all the good stuff. Well, here’s some funnies for the AB.

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Yesterdays release of real income data has received much commentary from blogger. Many ways of looking at the data and many excuses for the data have been proposed. Often I read comments about how the use of household and/or family data biased the data. And there are some validity to the comments that different ways […]