…campaign, here vapidity, shallowness and utter self-absorption seem to me striking—and undeniable. When she talks about her own (very serious) medical problems, she gives no indication at all that she’s…

Earlier this week, before the, um, video-recording news broke, it was reported that Romney planned to bring one of those debt clocks to his campaign rallies. Hmmm, I thought; Obama…

…framing a problem in physics so that it can be solved. Peter Peterson has framed the problem so it cannot be solved at all. Peterson has dedicated a billion dollars…

…also feel that they should (or even want to) share the goods. Haidt’s take (my emphasis): If there’s a problem with the ultra-rich, it’s not that they have too much…

…tried to make in my last post. From Mike Konczal: Their model is obviously telling them that whatever (non-)actions they’re taking at the moment will solve the problem. And their…

Guest post by Steve Roth Oh Yeah: Crowding Out Has Been a Huge Problem Cross-posted at Asymptosissize=”2″> Right-wing economists love to claim that government spending “crowds out” private spending, especially…

…she eats was made in either Canada or the United States. Fortunately, pet food—unlike its human equivalent—is required to be labeled with origin information. **You better believe I’m doing The…

…(see above link) No water is a real problem. And not just an “I can’t water my lawn” problem. A”my city can’t generate electricity”, or “these millions of acres can…

…illiquid firm the problem isn’t that the assets were illiquid, the problem was that their market price was so low that firms couldn’t cover their liabilities by selling the assets….

O.K., Greece is now “high yield”, “junk”, “below investment grade”, at least according to S&P. What I mean by that is S&P now rates Greece’s foreign and local currency sovereign…