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Guest post: Who Are the 1%?

…Larry Mishal to name three economists Guest post: Who Are the 1%? A week or so back, Dan from Angry Bear passed along this Boston Globe article. On its face,…

Snow today and tomorrow

…yet. Dan B. says: I’ve had enough. Between plowing my office, the shop, the home and mom’s. Then snow blowing the piles to make room for more. Being, literally up…

Simpson to disabled vets

…is the most uncommon thing in Washington.” Dan (Rdan) here: We could do the numbers for the whole VA cost, but putting the deficit on the shoulders of diabetic veterans…

Who are You and What Have You done with Kevin Drum ?

Robert Waldmann The absolutely brilliant and almost reliably reasonable Kevin Drum quotes the very smart and usually reasonable Dan Drezner and writes In a speech today in Russia, Barack Obama…

Taxes for States in Trouble?

…a matter of faith. Tthese groups have blanketed the internet with PR pieces proselytizing for their faith. See, for example, my various critiques of the the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell’s…

Evening News Report: Angry Bears Testify on Capitol Hill

Rdan: (whispering – “Hold up the USGS press release, Sam.”) “Yes, there is a projection that the region may also have 1,670 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas,…