Not to borrow a page from Brad DeLong, but three days before the singer’s would-have-been-80th birthday and 67 years to the day after the events that made his subject famous……

…States or its coalition partners. (3) DISPOSITION UNDER LAW OF WAR– For purposes of this subsection, the disposition of a person under the law of war has the meaning given…

…who thought that the projected 2003 deficit of 246 billion (without tax cuts and war costs) was scandalously high. He called “alarming” the 10-year deficit prediction for the cost of…

…blog and Angry Bear, and which was followed up by my fellow Angry Bear, Spencer, here) looking at a paper by David R. Henderson about the supposed post-World War 2…

By Daniel Becker I just want to lay out the debate going on in our economy right now. There are 4 debaters. President Obama/Geithner et al, President Obama 2008, the…

From Tom Dispatch a quiz: With President Obama’s announced July 2011 drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in mind, the Pentagon has already: a. Begun organizing an orderly early 2011…

…Mac Arthur warning that a land war on the Asian land mass is suicide, and that Mac Arthur demanded nuclear weapons to avoid such a bankrupting situation. At the time…

…in the American economy in the past century.” That is, it had been a persistent and significant trend up until around 1940. After a brief spike during World War II,…

by Bruce Webb Whence Teabaggery? Opponents of Health Care Reform vow to keep up their efforts and sweep Republicans to victory in November. But where do they take their stand?…

by Rebecca Wilder At least that is the way I read today’s monetary policy release. According to the statement released today: “The Bank of Japan will encourage the uncollateralized overnight…