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The Supply of Oil

Eric Chaney and Richard Berner of Morgan Stanley pose this question: Why haven’t oil prices fallen more in recent months? Most forecasts made late in 2004 for oil prices had…

That’s Nice

…to get over it and we ought to have a very careful, constitutional look at this,” Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said…

Housing Market Optimism

Jonathan McCarthy and Richard W. Peach of the New York Fed paint a relatively optimistic picture of the US’s housing market. From “Are Home Prices the Next Bubble?” FRBNY Economic…

Bill Kristol Cannot Tell the Truth

…is beyond the pale. His attempt to discredit the New York Times story about the missing explosives takes out of context a comment by Richard Holbrooke Fox’s Big Story with…

Sad Ralph

…that Nader would openly say that. My second reaction was to re-read the text and learn that it was conservative activist Richard Nadler (who runs a shadowy 527) speaking, not…

New Ad

…from his ranch? Is it time to use some excerpts from Richard Clarke’s book? Or should they simply start quoting the numerous passages from the 9/11 commission report that indicate…

DeLong v. Schmalensee

Last month PGL told us about an upcoming debate on Bush Jr.’s economic policies between Brad DeLong and Bush Sr.’s CEA economist Richard Schmalensee. The debate was held last week…

Rice-Rumsfeld: Peace is at Hand

…the situation in Iraq? Maybe the 1968 and 1972 campaigns provide one clue. Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign emphasized “Peace with Honor” but in October 1972, the Indochina situation was a…