Some Great Reads on a Wintery Night
…coming apart at the seams. Enrollments appear to be up if you also read Charles Gaba’s blog” ” As of today, we should be appx. 1.9 million ahead of last…
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Habemus Bad Bank
…is my attempt to translate and summarize this story in Italy’s leading paper La Repubblica and an angry blog post by Luca Fantuzzi update: in comments run75441 warns that Norton…
Drum on Drum on Sanders on Welfare Reform
I have the impression that this new post by Kevin Drum is a response to objections to his earlier post made, among other places, here at angrybearblog. I get the…
Paul Krugman Hits It Home [Updated]
…blog is not. But I want to say here also that his blog post a few days ago speculating about Friedman’s motive for doing the study and issuing the report…
Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll announce it just as soon as the Republican presidential candidates tell us theirs. [Typo in sentence referencing Max Ehrenfreund’s Wonkblog post corrected 3/2 at 2:28 p.m.]
…not quite the perfect candidate to compete against Trump. According to the NYT, the Clinton campaign itself now shares our concern. The Washington Post Wonkblog writer Max Ehrenfreund on February…
Forget ‘Women and Children’. Women ARE Children. Right?
…down Hillary Clinton, repeatedly,” the title of a blog post by Peter W. Stevenson, also a Fix-er. And this from The Fix blog leader writer Chris Cillizza in his post-debate…
Why did Paul Krugman and the Washington Post editorial board—both of whom know better—misrepresent that it was Sanders rather than the New York Daily News editorial board that was wrong about what Dodd-Frank provides, and about whether it would be Treasury or instead the financial institutions themselves that would determine the method of paring down?
As Dean Baker and several (mostly) alternative-media and hobbyist bloggers—including actual experts on Dodd-Frank and on financial-institution governance—have noted since the New York Daily News editorial board released a transcript…
A question looming before the debate last night was: Which of two mutually exclusive positions Clinton has taken recently on Dodd-Frank’s too-big-to-fail provision would she repeat in the debate? The answer: Both. [Updated 4/16]
…than Sanders does—I wrote: NYT The Upshot blogger Peter Eavis, who actually specializes in coverage of Dodd-Frank and related finance-industry matters, begs to differ with you. His post, which is…
Should simplicity be a primary goal of tax reform?
…for the AMT). For more information on the AMT, see the series I wrote earlier on this blog, at the following post (and the links to earlier Parts therein): What…
Refinancing is dead: a generation of Hard Times will continue until secularly real wages improve
New Deal Democrat writing from The Bonddad Blog On Monday I gave what I think is a reasonable roadmap to the next recession. I want to follow up on this…