…print by Megan McArdle (in exasperation?). Still. the madmen included Mike, Dan Crawford, Spencer England, Ken Houghton, Robert Waldmann, and other notables brought in to help. I will have a…

(Dan here…Afferent Input started to write for Angry Bear but was subsequently uprooted with family to live and thrive in Germany for a few years, and gave up blogging. He…

(Dan here…Lifted from Robert’s thoughts) Robert writes: Omigod Sept 4 2012 really is opposites day. Ezra Klein made an incorrect claim of fact about health care financing. He wrote: But…

by Dale Coberly (Dan here…Dale Coberly replies to this article (Is it Becoming Too Late to Fix Social Security’s Finances?) by Charles Blahous). Blahous, You do not seem to grasp…

…were people who had borrowed before inflation was high — basically home owners who signed fixed interest rate 30 year mortgages in 1973 and before. (Dan here….slightly edited for readability)….

…dollars in tainted money for Iran and lied to regulators. (Dan here…We do not know how much remained with Standard Charter as various kinds of fees, admin., and charges…was there…

…the Clinton years. In contrast, during the “Bush Investment lead Boom” it was up only up 6.9%, or about a third of the current cyclical rise. (Update…slightly edited for readability…Dan)…

Update: Paul Krugman at Conscience of a Liberal points to Spencer England’s post in his column 8/1…Dan I thought it would be interesting to post this chart of real private…

In an email exchange between Dan and me on Tuesday, I wrote: Btw, the Supreme Court has been amazingly slow this term in issuing opinions in high-profile cases. Most of…

Lifted from an e-mail by Beverly Mann in response to an inquiry of mine on a Washington Post article: Hi Dan. The key paragraphs in a Washington Post article earlier…