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Guest Post: Rationality of Banks

…rational. Keynes thought markets were more or less rational, except when they went nuts, the government had to step in. Mr. Romney still says it in public: Just a little…

Making the United States More Like Greece

…go through the evidence on this point in detail, including important work by Greg Mankiw, former top economic adviser to George W. Bush and now working with Mitt Romney, which…

Santorum’s Tax Returns Out

…paid a considerably higher share of his income in taxes than did Romney (at not quite 14%). See Exclusive: Santorum Releases 4 Years of Returns, Politico (Feb. 16, 2012) (the…

Super pacs disclosures

…percent of the $17.9 million dollars collected by the super PAC supporting (but not connected to or coordinated with) Mitt Romney’s campaign came via six-figure contributions. Five other super PACs…

Santorum Surge, Part 144

…at Skippy, Our Leader posted a link to a discussion of whether “Romney’s strengths” could beat Obama. I wisecracked, without looking at the data, that the total Republican votes in…