Bernanke Part 2 of 2: Leaders Lead, or Just Say No
The world would be a much better place if people had listened to Tom last August: Now some elite opinion favors Ben Bernanke’s reappointment, but politicians are irritated over Fed…
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DOLB’s Punditry on Obama’s speech
by divorced one like Bush Ok, here are my basic issues with the substance of President Obama’s speech. First, may I remind everyone that as of 11/08 I declared my…
The President’s job in 5 words or less
…a way to compromise. In keeping with my posting from 2010, I add this latest of President Obama’s statements to the “All you need to know to Understand President Obama”…
Dear Greg Sargent: “Re your Morning Plum reference to Krugman’s column today”
…most people think government employment—federal, state, local—has increased during Obama’s presidency; of course, actually, it has decreased, dramatically. And on and on. Which has been the case throughout Obama’s presidency….
Obama should tell the public specifically—in meticulous detail—what the Syrian refugee vetting process IS. Since Clinton once again failed to do that.
…does Clinton repeatedly fail to detail this in response to Trump’s outlandishly false representations? And since Clinton refuses to do so, why doesn’t Obama take up that slack? I forgot…
Oh, But Mr. Trump, Obama WAS Working For the American People Last Thursday. (!)
Looking at Air Force One @ MIA. Why is he campaigning instead of creating jobs & fixing Obamacare? Get back to work for the American people! 11:19 AM – 3…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
A legal-news blog I read mentions an article published today on the National Review Online aspirationally titled “A Strike at the Heart of Obamacare” and subtitled “A case against IPAB…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…