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Crunch time ahead?

…subject by the Federal Reserve staff economists Dean Maki and Michael Palumbo – that even much of the boom of the late 1990s was built substantially on asset bubbles. [“Disentangling…

Swiftboating Anthony Zinni

…Clinton’s fault. Zinni is some Michael Moore leftie who has flip-flopped. I’m wondering if Hume got this some from this source: Nevertheless, in February of 2000, long before President Bush…

If the Bubble Bursts

Michael Mandel’s piece in Business Week yesterday ended by posing the following question. Suppose the doomsayers are right, and the housing bubble bursts in 2006. Suppose that the fall in…

Is John Shadegg Pro-Growth?

…sizeable amount to Federal spending in the future, let’s see how Shadegg voted via Michael Crowley who first cites this June 2005 passage from Congress Daily: During the marathon vote…

So Why Did Unemployment Fall?

…five years ago even if the Administration’s minions try to tout the current labor market as the best ever. Update: Michael Darda finds reasons not to be as disappointed as…

Rewriting the History of the Bush Tax Cuts

…that. Josh Marshall notes that Mehlman now has “twice the lying power” and Crooks and Liars provides us with the videotape. It would seem that Michael Darda has joined other…