…a little. So I can’t help but see the manure-colored lining in this otherwise rosy, fluffy cloud. Steve Benen reports that according to the new NBC/WSJ poll, Americans trust Democrats…

…exercise in political theater it became painfully obvious that his pants were on fire. This was even before it became obvious that his diatribe was utterly incoherent. Steve Benen explains….

Via Robert Waldmann Richard Thaler at Bloomberg provides a different take on innovators and job creators: A recurring theme of this year’s presidential campaign is the need to encourage the…

Robert muses some more. Lifted from his Stochastic Thoughts. Via Steve Benen the folks who’ll appear on the panel about “successful communication with minorities and women,” and the criticism here…

…future with a dearth of viable consumers will be a far more zero-sum future. It will mean less of the type of innovation we associate with Steve Jobs — and…

…choose dog food when they cannot afford Hamburger Helper (which we call “chicken-steak,” as if it were Patrick Stewart and Steve Martin negotiating [link will be understood by rjw’s students])…

…regularly. On the other hand, as Steven Colbert (representing common sentiment) responded to Warren Buffet’s explanation of his position on taxes and tax code the other night, “Why do I…

…basic attitudes toward labor. Some see labor as a commodity, while others believe it is not. *** Representative Steve King (R-IA) on the floor of the House of Representatives last…

…2000s! Poor Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others so hampered by our non-free-enterprise system during the decades preceding 2001, toiling under Communist rule and longing for freedom and…

…Medicare reimbursements to skyrocket); see also Steve Denning,HCA: The unsustainable private equity bubble in US health care, Forbes (Aug. 15, 2012). As one commenter on the NY Times article noted,…