Can anybody explain this to me? AAPL AMZN Price/Earnings 15.15 302.68 That’s a 20:1 ratio. Yes, Amazon has a lower price to revenues ratio, by a 2:1 margin. AAPL AMZN…

John Sides at The Monkey Cage makes what seems to be an incredibly important point, at least for politico types. In the latest Pew report (PDF) that everyone’s nattering about,…

Brad DeLong cited this passage from Ron Suskind’s latest book on Monday: Both [Christina Romer and Larry Summers], in fact, were concerned by something the president had said in a…

…has yet to change it. (Myth # updated…Rdan) Myth 4: Healthcare Reform will cause Doctors not to take more Medicare Patients and drop those they have today. – This myth…

by Bruce Webb The current line of attack on Health Care reform from Republicans is that it proposes to Rob Gramma to Pay Pedro. I am not going to address…

There is a strange meme in the blogsphere—most recently made in comments here by Movie Guy—that Obama “should have a double-digit lead over McCain at this stage as has been…

Piercing the myth: How privatizers got their mitts on Medicare, The Stand, Kip Sullivan Insurance companies decried Medicare’s fee-for-service model. But then Congress let them replace it with something much…

…But let’s not feed the other myth propagated by the Reagan cheerleaders. Real GDP growth from 1983 to 1989 may have appeared strong but that was mainly offsetting the 1982…

…taxation. While the top marginal rate was never below 70% between 1936 and 1980, it has not gone above 39.6% in the years since Reagan left office. But if Reagan’s…

…a second recession during this period and Reagan did not. The republicans and/or right wing think tanks love to brag about how strong the economy was under the Reagan supply-side,…