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The colors of the Holidays

It’s the holidays. Time for some color on the AB. Happy Holidays! by divorced one like Bush…

Programming Note

…a way to pity sadly the University of Chicago’s Business School curriculum (yes, there’s an is-McMegan-is-being-obtuse-or-is-she-stupid post someone has to write; I’ll trust that someone will)—Happy Hanukkah, Xmas, Kwanzaa, New

The Smartest Morons in the Room

…nowhere near as happy for the Welfare Queen class as it would have been had they simply walked away a couple years ago, as for instance this fine fellow did,…

WHY BILL GATES GETS SOCIAL SECURITY

…not convinced, and he is not happy. He has another idea: “How much if you pay off only if I am poor when I reach 65?” No can do, says…

Waiting for the DeLong-Fish Cage Match

…department, and a certain NYT columnist already dislikes him. Peter Orszag should be a contender, but doesn’t get named so it’s reasonable to assume he’s happy where he is. Fish’s…

Mankiw’s Incentives

…a few more happy memories. Wonderful. Someone should inform him that the employment to population ratio is lower now than it was when the President he advised took office, lower…

Wasting More Money

happy camper in its Southern Strategy effort. So now, having spent the money, beating Citi and saving the FDIC, Wells is going to have to watch as SunTrust eats its…

The Coming Harvest

…bring in the harvest. I hope the Republican farmers in the red states are happy. Well, at least they’ll still have their shotguns…they may need them. I pointed this out…