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The Phillips Curve: Bernanke v. Kudlow

Lawrence Kudlow once again is guilty of either stupidity or mendacity (or both) as misrepresents a speech by Ben Bernanke: It’s always amazing to listen to conventional demand-side economic pundits…

More Snow Jobs on the Economy

…address my two questions: (1) what does this footnote mean in terms of comparisons across time?; and (2) was Snow guilty of stupidity or mendacity when he answered Tristan’s question?…

George Will on “Low” Gasoline Prices

stupidity was a comment a couple of weeks ago by Senator Reid that gasoline prices were quite high. Will claimed that at the time the Senator had made this speech,…

PlameGate: Blaming Valerie

…blaming the victim, Andrew McCarthy blames her employer. Since Levin and McCarthy were likely paid by the National Review for their stupidity, let’s blame their employer for such pathetic nonsense….

Did Stephen Moore Sucker Kevin Drum?

…as others repeatedly point out the folly of his Oct. 2000 op-ed with Laffer. Yet, he continues to make the same claim repeatedly. Stupidity? I think not. Mendacity? It seems…

Let Them Eat Cake

…is a lot more to Luskin’s latest rant – but he has failed to rebut anything Krugman wrote – although he does display his own stupidity and/or mendacity as usual….

“FactCheck” Flunks Financial Economics

…five particular challenges to Reid’s calculator including his fourth discussion, which goes directly to this issue. Update: Jesse Taylor points out the rest of the stupidity in this FactCheck attack…

Disingenuous Defense of Bush’s Fiscal Policy

…and data that eclipses the mendacity and stupidity of the Luskin-Kudlow-Moore coalition. Note that this passage what have Lord Keynes rolling in his grave: Democrats, however, aided by a pliant…