…is right – even if Michael fails to grasp his simple point. Update: Michael Mandel replies with what he sees as partial agreement but then adds: which is exactly why…

The Club for Growth’s Soc. Sec. blog had been previewing a debate on March 15 between Michael Tanner and Paul Krugman forgetting to mention that Joshua Marshall was also invited…

Flood the Jackass Zone I tend to ignore Michael Weiner (who you may know as Michael Savage) because anyone who would listen to him for more than two minutes is…

Old news: April 3. But still: Following up on yesterday’s post, see here from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Telegraph (emphasis mine): “All this talk of exit strategies is deeply negative,”…

…Malcom. Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating, The Telegraph, 6/20/2013, Web link Pettis, Michael. How much investment is optimal?, Michael Pettis’ China Financial Markets, 6/10/2013, Web link…

Mainstream Economics become the celebration of the wealthy rentier class To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone complains about inequality, but nobody does anything about it. What they do is to use…

Lets get this out of the way first; Speaker 1 is Charlie Sykes of “The Bulwark Podcast“. Speaker 2 is former Federal Judge Michael Luttig. The talk and the partial…

…national issues in general or health-care reform in particular. But it makes it similarly hard to argue that the state is firmly opposed to health-care reform, or that Scott Brown’s…

…and strikes down the federal subsidies to lower- and some middle-income folks and families–who by then will be receiving those subsidies and enjoying meaningful healthcare insurance and the resulting relief…

…to repeal their universal-healthcare laws and tie healthcare insurance to full-time employment at large corporations!” The gist of which was that the claim that it is a bad thing economically…