…may have been mislead by accounting gimmicks that allowed former shareholders to make out with equity that should have been put back into the pension plan. Fox links to material…

…2039. As the New Economist suggested: growth arithmetic is not Mr. Berry’s strong suit. The New Economist also provides links to some other very good discussions with the piece from…

…links to al Qaeda.” “Al Qaeda was not a conventional enemy,” Bush said. “This new threat required us to think and act differently.” But there’s more to the story than…

…ranks seventh in total contracts out of 88 Mississippi-based concerns that have received deals worth $100,000 or more. “This case should be scrutinized to ensure those awards were based on…

…Keeping in the spirit of the holidays – James Hamilton declares the windfall profits tax proposal a real turkey as he links to Arnold Kling who summarizes a paper from…

…they decide to vote for a Democratic majority in Congress – their reasonable expectations will go unfulfilled. Laura provides an excellent discussion with lots of useful links. Check it out!…

Mark Thoma’s Snow Falls Silent in China links to an interesting article from Edmund Andrews. As John Tamny steals Mark’s title (“Snows Falls on China”), he writes: A frequently cited…

…of the 2001 recession. Mark Thoma has added some interesting discussions and links to New Economist who notes that measuring the Keynesian output gap may be a difficult exercise and…

Digby links to Kos who finds several quotes from Tom DeLay opposing the Commander in Chief as well as quotes from Trent Lott, Rick Santorum, Joe Scarborough, and Sean Hannity…

Mark Thoma links to a story from the Poughkeepsie Journal where apparently the Poughkeepsie crowd was more impressed by Paul Krugman than Michael Tanner – despite Tanner’s usual spin: Tanner…