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Sliming Larry Johnson

Duncan Black (see Dance PNAC Monkey Dance) catches Gary Schmitt sliming Larry Johnson. We noted how Ramesh Ponnunu also accused Mr. Johnson of being a Democratic partisan. Matthew Yglesias places…

The Alpha and the Omega of mid-2007

…good reason (or, in the case of Stanley Fish, in the throes of full hypocrisy). Larry Summers about a month later, 27 August 2007, in the LA Times. First, he…

Neo-Paleo-Keynesians Krugman and DeLong

Summers 1986) (published in 1986 so just out of his time interval). In general I think DeLong and Summers were both crypto-neo-paleo Keynesians back in the late 80s. Krugman summarizing…

Larry Kudlow- George Bush and the stock market

Since George Bush was elected President eight years ago the stock market is down about one-third. Yet, Larry Kudlow and the other non-partisan analysts on CNBC keep insisting they want…

Hoisted from Comments (thought not here)

…policy inner circle–Tim Geithner, Gene Sperling, Larry Summers, Christie Romer, Peter Orszag–is not “a group of Wall Street bankers.” It is only 5% Wall Street banker–only 1/4 of Larry Summers