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Consumer confidence

…not anytime soon regardless of how happy they are. Rebecca: In my view, it’s (more precisely) the lack of money during the recovery of a balance sheet recession (Richard Koo…

Project for a New American Century

…Robert Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad William Kristol Richard Perle Peter W. Rodman Donald Rumsfeld William Schneider, Jr. Vin Weber Paul Wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Robert B. Zoellick (In reading the Statement…

CIA, TIA & RBC: Who was watching?

…transforming the CIA into USA-TIA at the behest of one Richard Bruce Cheney. The graphic attached to this post drew some ridicule at the time but it really was the…

Megan McArdle Knows Galileo Was Waaay Over-rated

…did Harry Truman and Bill Clinton have in common (but not with Richard Nixon) that caused this marvelous confluence? Well, maybe we don’t know the mechanism exactly, but never you…

What was the Nexus?

…Cheney and then in alphabetical order: Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Eliot Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg…

Obama’s Cabinet

…State Juan Cole (I mean it) Defence Richard Clarke (don’t ask why I want him in defence and I won’t tell) Attorney General Glenn Greenwald (this is absolutely serious) Treasury…

Global warming policy on taxes report

18 expert panelists on GAO report on cap and trade versus carbon taxes. Joseph Aldy, Resources for the Future James Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richard Howarth, Dartmouth College Bruce…

G W Bush’s successful Presidency

…secretary, Paul Wolfowitz; Bush’s former special assistant and senior national security adviser, Elliot Abrams; Bush’s former ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad; Bush’s former deputy secretary of state, Richard