AB, late Thursday: If you want to stop a dictator from killing his people, freeze any of his personal assets that are held out of the country. In cases where…

by Dan Crawford (Rdan) (H/t Ken Houghton) Eric Leeper’s paper Monetary Science, Fiscal Alchemy∗, also found ungated in the Financial Times: Jackson Hole papers finally available, mentioned Angry Bear in…

Rdan The new template is done for the most part and will be replacing the current template in November, about mid-month. It is faster and cleaner and should serve us…

rdan A well done 59 minute description of the basics of part of the current financial crisis and actually no one yelling. Nice. Podcast of Bad Banks. Transcript of This…

by rdan In a spirit of cooperation, I have lifted this post from Tim Schilling (economist and Asst. Dir. Powell Institute) blog MV=PQ. It is geared for a lesson plan…

We are trying this open post on a Friday night. Blogger does not support threaded comments and such. But, the mike is yours, civility is not waived….

…where have you been? Why aren’t you posting anymore? Well, like Kash, I’m enjoying the summer while also trying to get a lot of work and reseach done. Also, I’ve…

Time for another installment in an irregular series. I thought this email said a lot about the media’s truly poor job in covering the privatization debate: In regards to Bush’s…

…for Help getting the Google Search Box to work That was easy. I just had to change the sitesearch value from value=”http://www.angrybear.blogspot.com” to value=”angrybear.blogspot.com” You may now search angrybear! AB…

Reader Steve writes in with a good question about Greenspan’s 3-Card Monte: Love your site and have been following the various articles about Social Security. Admittedly, my understanding of the…