David Altig co-authored Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the United States (AER June 2001), which is a very good paper. So I decided to make his blog a must read….

…administration’s “axis of evil” label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists, and threats of sanctions for the country’s nuclear ambitions. Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan…

…closed with a live performance by the Black Eyed Peas singing “Let’s Get it Started” [in here]. Given that the actual song is “Let’s Get Retarded”, and “Let’s Get it…

…This time, it’s Columbia professor, Nobel Prize winner, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz (vita), writing in the Guardian: Second, if a country invests more than…

…in trumpeting Whitewater, or the NYT’s hapless exploiting of Wen Ho Lee in order to attack Clinton. But now I’ve got something even better and, remarkably, it comes via Howie…

…and outside groups. The $400 checks that these families will not get were a big part selling this plan, a way to avoid the “sellout to the wealthy” label. The…

…reading the comments to ZDNet stories about Gates and MS, which is usually referred to therein as “M$”). And blog-readers are disproportionately techie, giving them a libertarian and anti-MS twist….

It’s really hard to kill this meme. Note the label on this graph from today’s Free Exchange post: Now change that heading to read “Business borrowing.” Sort of gives a…

…Costa, “Philly Fed economist Shigeru Fujita argues that the shrinking of the U.S. workforce over the past year and half was “entirely due to retirement” of baby boomers.” http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/12/09/work-force-is-shrinking-because-of-retiring-boomers-philly-fed-paper-argues/ Apparently…

To be fair, I don’t think Hannity had any idea about Bundy’s racial theories. However, it’s generally a good idea to be wary of lionizing people who go around saying:…