While I’m trying to decide whether unmanaged funds are preferrable to mismanaged ones, and wondering whether any discussion of Mark Cuban (I like the picture better than CNN’s) belong here,*…

Via Dr. Black, the NYT quotes the Alabama Senator: “Companies fail every day and others take their place. I think this is a road we should not go down,” said…

…had hoped.** We also don’t want to read too much into short-term market moves.*** But there’s little doubt that uncertainty, and some fear, over Barack Obama’s economic agenda is also…

by reader Movie Guy I reviewed the OMB Watch list of proposed and final rules. If approved and published in the Federal Register, it is possible if not likely that…

Ken Houghton I would prefer not to talk about AIG, especially since we already have two posts on it today: Robert brilliantly puts it into context, while DOLB goes for…

…lecture on “Economic Growth and Convergence” from 1995 (included in this book): Most surprisingly, female education at variouos levels is not significantly related to subsequent growth….Thus, these findings do not…

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has a topic we should be keeping an eye on over time, as does CR. Bloomberg now suing in court under the Freedom of Information…

…helm of the Treasury then as there is now, and will be until 20 January 2009. Leonhardt then admits that Barack Obama knows more about economics than he does: Throughout…

…don’t need the motivations that economics professors do. *In fairness to Mankiw, he knows his numbers are b.s. The giveaway: “In a sense, putting the various pieces of the tax…

Via Dr. Black, we get CNN reporting: Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn’t abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s senior economic policy adviser. “Why would they leave?” said Holtz-Eakin….