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There are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 primary contest with Obama and Sanders’s primary contest now with her. Clinton doesn’t get that. But she needs to figure it out because the differences matter.

…Sherrod Brown and three or four others–among them now Chris Murphy of Connecticut, he made clear a day or two ago in an eloquent statement–who comprise the Senate’s contingent of…

Once more: I WANT MORE SPENDING!

…recovery. That’s an understatement! He hedges some more: Also, households may remain wary about their employment and income prospects, suggesting that they may have lowered their future income expectations. Really?…

Dear Journalists — You can Smarten Up Now

…its species only by careful choice of breeding stock and monitoring and exclusion of unwanted qualities. Breeding dogs is like maintaining topiary hedges. It doesn’t happen all by itself. A…

Watch the Parking Meters

…(collateralized parking meter obligation), puts the super-senior tranche into an off-balance-sheet vehicle, hedges the rest via a CDS-backed synthetic CDO, and then resells the whole thing within 12 months to…

WaPo on AIG

…simple, there is risk that can’t be hedged by everyone. Someone has to bear aggregate risk. The idea that risk is a problem that can be solved, if one hedges

Index funds and commodities 2

…acknowledges that index-based positions differ enough from bona fide hedges as to make hedge exemptions inappropriate under current law. It does not state where it found the authority to classified…