Preramble: I posted this on my blog exactly a year ago today, in slightly different form. Dan linked to it once, from here, just a few weeks before I started…

(Dan here…Lifted from Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts. Just a comment.) by Robert Waldmann Most absurd use of “Most” Two of the bees in my bonnet are the www.WashingtonPost.com Headline writer(s) and…

Dan here…. Jonathon Chait writes in the NYT Paul Ryan: Obama Refuses to Endorse Tax Fairy. Lifted from Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts on journalistic rhetorical language and consensus: on Chait there’s…

…don’t get to operate Wall Street on the principle “We eat what we kill” no matter what some hot-shot MBA trader might think. (Dan here…Title added, introduction edited for clarity)…

…Bankruptcies!*”, which discussed Bain Capital’s PR agent’s email to Dan, explained this. Or tried to. But here’s another clarification: As several commenters to my posts have pointed out, Bain Capital…

Angry Bear was started by its namesake in the latter part of 2003, and continued publishing through the editorial efforts of Mike Kimel and Dan Crawford over the last six…

…were the actual rate paid. The report disregards the fact that capital gains are also earned outside of corporations (as Dan Shaviro noted in the Bloomberg piece). It suggests that…

Bruce Wilder had an excellent comment recently in the Crooked Timber thread on markets, economic rents, and the constraints on economic actors, excerpted by Dan here, and more with comments…

…I posted this on my blog in slightly different form as a Quote of the Day entry. But it makes such a fitting companion piece to Dan’s from earlier today…

Last week, Dan posted what had been an email message I sent him in response to a link he’d sent me to an article by Thom Hartmann on Truthout about…