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Two comments on Kling

…labor is needed (no hint as to evidence nor any response to critics of Hayek) objects that Obama isn’t libertarian, and says that Americans have to suffer to punish financiers…

Real Keynesians understand imbalanced trade

…Keynesian economics from an introductory economics textbook. Unlike real Keynesians they do not understand trade deficits. For example, Obama’s primary economic advisors Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner think that one…

David Sirota has it right….

…radio have been telling you that America is a “center-right nation” that elected Barack Obama to crush his fellow “socialist” hippies, discard the agenda he campaigned on, and meet the…

The WSJ Editorial Page Talks, the Market Listens

…below the level when the editorial was written], bought into the Obama rumor, and has been selling some gains on the Obama fact and the Fed easing and Hank Paulson’s…

Fox News Warns

BY CACTUS Fox News Warns What’s with Fox? On their website, they have this piece: Obama to Inherit Economy in Worst Crisis in 70 Years Barack Obama’s presidential election victory…

Compare and Contrast

…to implement most of their other policies. Here are the specific links to the candidates Web sites policy on energy in alphabetical order. McCain Obama McCains preamble: Our nation’s future…

Candidate reactions

hat tip to Movie Guy Here is part of what Presidential candidate Obama said on Friday about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate: Senator Obama called Governor Palin from his campaign…

Polling Margins: The Myth of "Double-Digits"

There is a strange meme in the blogsphere—most recently made in comments here by Movie Guy—that Obama “should have a double-digit lead over McCain at this stage as has been…

Cactus sends a note

by cactus I had some more or less random thoughts: 1. If Obama wins the election, in five or six years expect the folks on the right to blame the…