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Update on Presidential Performance Book

by cactus I’d like to thank Dan for putting up graphs from some of my previous posts, and for reminding people that I’m working on a book. Here’s the status:…

Good news for borrowers

…delinquent,” said Dan Balkin of Wholesale Access, a Maryland research and consulting firm that specializes in the mortgage industry. Lesson to would-be homeowners. Keep your mortgage lenders and home equity…

Drezner on the Net Income From Abroad Puzzle

…New Economist provides a summary. Daniel Drezner asks “Why are Americans Better at FDI” providing several possible explanations. See the comments to Dan’s post as well, which include Brad Setser…

Good Questions

Dan Froomkin asks some good questions today: What does it say about the president of the United States that he won’t go anywhere near ordinary citizens any more? And that…

Will Boston Lead the Housing Bust?

Writing in the Lowell Sun, Dan O’Brien reports that a number of towns in Middlesex County are reporting year-over-year median price declines. O’Brien provides details for Dracut and Lowell, and…

Did Cheney Initiate a Policy of Prisoner Abuse?

Dan Froomkin picks up on something that no one else seems to have noticed in yesterday’s broadcast of Morning Edition on NPR: an assertion by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief…

Is Fitzmas Over?

…Matthew Cooper, according to Dan French, Levine’s attorney. The e-mail, which did not mention Plame, ended with Rove telling Levine to come see him. The investigator wanted details of that…