Ways and Means–still distracting with false scandals
…30th letter to IRS deputy commissioner Daniel Werfel [hat tip Prof. Evelyn Brody] in which they suggest that there is email evidence that IRS official Lois Lerner may have inappropriately…
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Deserving to be poor
Via Economist’s View, Paul Krugman notes a pattern in out post racial rhetoric: So what’s this all about? One reason…, Daniel Little suggested in a recent essay, is market ideology:…
Why Will Healthcare Insurance be Cheaper in Florida with the PPACA???
…Wendell Potter” The Center for Public Integrity, Bill Buzenberg “Florida says health insurance prices will spike; feds disagree” Miami Hearld, Daniel Chang and Patricia Borns “The Florida Health Care Landscape”…
Sunday Reads
…just spread it around differently. This Is the Golden Age of Deficit Reduction Hat Tip Daniel Gross at The Daily Beast As Washington chewed over the Paul Ryan-Patty Murray budget…
The Five Best Nonfiction Books
…latest, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.) Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast, and Slow. Kahneman and his lifelong cohort Amos Tversky (sadly deceased) are psychologists who won…
Polarized Politics Led To Cantor’s Defeat– and Cochran’s Victory. Why the “Uncommitted Center” Is So Important (Cantor part 2)
…Chris McDaniel, a Tea Party favorite. On June 3, Cochran, an establishment Republican who has served in the Senate for 24 years, lost the Republican Senate primary to Chris McDaniel,…
Ho hum or bizarre?
…before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, Daniel K. Tarullo, the Fed governor who oversees regulatory policies, signaled the central bank’s plan to propose special capital requirements for the largest…
Darwin Wept: Pyramid Schemes, Collusion, and Price-Fixing, the Modern American Way
…and Corporate Control. 2000. Daniel P. O’Brien and Steven C. Salop. Do Publicly Traded Corporations Act in the Public Interest? March 1990. Roger H. Gordon. Financial transaction costs and industrial…
OJ Blanchard defends the IMFs interactions with Greece
…he and Daniel Leigh provided the strongest (PDF) evidence that Keynes was right). I do not find his argument convincing. I will semi fisk it quoting the bits with which…
A Carleton S. Fiorina Finger Exercise
…are demonstrating that you have no good arguments. Brad is being too nice. Here’s the Daniel Davies-style Finger Exercise: A CEO runs a company with an annual ROE of X….