Bill Gates: Evil Businessman or Philanthropist Extraordinaire? Mac Diva has an ongoing dialog on this topic with one of her frequent readers, Jim, as well as some other bloggers. First,…

…Crow, and Peter Thiel (among others). See The Intercept, As Manchin Eyes Presidential Run, His Allies at No Labels Face Mounting Legal Challenges. “The NYTimes article repeatedly referred to No Labels…

…director of NIH. Dorman and Gelman on libertarians in government In a comment on a recent blog post by Andrew Gelman, Peter Dorman says the following about Bhattacharya: What makes…

I wanted to look at the WSJ job database, suspecting what I might find, but currently lack the bandwidth in a major way. Fortunately, Noah took some (more) time from…

UPDATE NOTE: The following isn’t complete. Many of my notes from the latter part of today’s interview can be found on Twitter, hashtagged #Immelt. At the moment, I both (1)…

Between deadlines and strange website blockages, I missed this yesterday. Via Steve Randy Waldman (whose “Interfludity” is blocked) and Mark Thoma (whose isn’t) comes Really Bad News: To all Maxine…

by Linda Beale (cross posted from ataxingmatter) (Rdan: The link worth noting is Susan Altmeyer’s…the Journal opinion is simply misleading) Link worth noting : Wall St.Journal and Golf Carts Tax…

…back up a little. Tuesday July 14. CBO scores the coverage costs of HR3200, the House Tri-Committee Bill. The CBO Director’s Blog puts this announcement out House Democrats’ Health Reform…

rdan Fire Megan McArdle is a gem that Ken and spencer have been keeping quiet from me. Now discovered. Does cactus know?…

By Spencer, In the 1990s Greg Mankiw said that the Clinton tax increases would cause a major recession. In fact, the tax increases were followed by a major boom. In…