…*are.* And what yesterday’s release showed us, for the about the sixth month in a row, is that the coincident economy is stagnant (but not contracting!), with the big exception…

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better. That’s what the First Amendment is all about. So long as the people know where the speech is…

Given Ryan’s release of his new plan calling for territorial taxation of corporations comes this example of Apple from Kenneth Thomas, Middle class political economist econoblog: Apple Whines About Having…

…Lewis Thomas, The Youngest Science, p. 4 (Penguin, 1995 edition, quote via Google Books) Lost in the discussion of Paul Ryan’s “plan” is the group of entrepreneurs that will be…

…Robert Shiller, Tom Lawler, Dean Baker, Doris “Tanta” Dungey, and others. There was discussion of loose lending standards (including, but not limited to subprime), lack of regulatory supervision, agency problems…

Robert Waldmann Krugman not considered a competent data downloader in the Newspaper which employees him. Writing about the new slashed budget proposed in the UK, Landon Thomas Jr sees invisible…

…Kenen looked at the data: “Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily crunched some Massachusetts numbers and discovered that ‘a solid majority—56 percent—said health care was their top issue.’ And 53 percent…

…small banking industry of the nineteen-fifties is understandable. Unfortunately, the only way to do that would be to bring back the economy of the fifties, too.” and outsourced to Thomas…

The Wall Street Journal has an opinion by Thomas Frank on the topic of spending by Republicans. In other articles he is very hard on the stupidity of Democratic campaigns…

Thomas Jefferson wrote a dire warning about banks and debt: ‘If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then…