When I forwarded this link to Beverly Mann I was interested in following the current thread on civil rights, the legalities of state use of torture, the continuation in the…

Marshall Auerback, a Director of Institutional Partnerships at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (www.ineteconomics.org) Let’s cut the crap about Japan’s Lost Decade. As Hill notes, we tend to use…

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Robert Heron Bork died at age 85. I did not mourn. Bork first became infamous in 1973 for his role in the “Saturday night massacre”…

Bill McBride offers: A little holiday cheer … Discussions of the business cycle frequently focus on consumer spending (PCE: Personal consumption expenditures), but the key is to watch private domestic…

Barkley Rosser at Econospeak offers his take on the current political situation and two players. (re-posted with permission from author) Norquist and LaPierre: Emperors Losing Their Clothes? Two figures have…

by Dale Coberly Fareed Zakaria on Social Security Fareed Hearts Pete Peterson Disses your mom Fareed Zakaria wrote an essay for Time, The Baby Boom and Financial Doom. Dean Baker…

This will soon be the new look for Angry Bear, and a switch to the wordpress platform from blogger will add considerably to functions. Our advertisements are also missing. The…

Be safe and treasure loved ones. And thank you readers from all the Bears….

No, not Dr. Black’s blog. The real eschaton: the end of everything. Or, in this case, its economics equivalent: the point at which almost all human work is no longer…

Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman are having a mini debate on whether Brad et al (that means the Clinton administration) had good reason to fear bond vigilantes in the 90s….