Lifted from Robert Waldmann’s Stochastic Thoughts for a Sunday afternoon: Christian Roots of School Voucher Movement Still Pretty Obvious …. those of us who are over the age of 40 and have three-digit IQs remember where this all started: with segregated Christian schools in the South who were denied tax-exempt status in the 70s. This […]
Lifted from Robert Waldmann’sStochastic Thoughts: 32. Note that the US constitution grants the same due process rights to citizens and non citizens. This time I pick on Steve Benen who wrote “The drones themselves are a fairly new tool, but the use of technology is tangential to the underlying point about the use of force, […]
Lifted by Dan from Robert’s Stochastic thoughts Robert writes: I was reasonably sure that the latest Ruth Marcus column would cause me to have to revise and update my earlier post declaring her a heroine of Ballance. She comments on the fact that Republican representatives live-tweeted snark during the question and answer session with […]
This post will be long, fairly wonky, and confused. I am typing, because I just have to stop playing with FRED and write something. My claim is that expected inflation over the next 5 (and 10 and 20) years is very similar to actual inflation over the past year. I think the data generally […]
Via Robert Waldmann Richard Thaler at Bloomberg provides a different take on innovators and job creators: A recurring theme of this year’s presidential campaign is the need to encourage the formation of new businesses. Republicans in general, and Mitt Romney in particular, have stressed that the best way to stimulate such startups is via low […]
Robert Waldmann notes a decent article defined by a ridiculous title (of course lifted from his musings): 1) Reasonable and reasonably honest conservative list update: Josh Barro is very reasonable and quite honest. But is he still a conservative? He sure doesn’t always sound like one. 2) About #1) see an example of the ness […]
by Robert Waldmann Everything is possible and I think that Dean Baker just lost a debate with a Washington Post reporter. Post reporter Zachary A. Goldfarb wrote The two economists compared what happened in U.S. counties where people had amassed huge debts with those where people had borrowed little. It had long been thought that […]
by Robert Waldmann At Frum forum Justin Green extensively quotes Jeb Golonkin on how conservatism could be much better if conservatives made specific policy proposals. Sad but true, almost all of the proposals that have been signed into law are by Barack Obama. This is not a rare event. While many conservatives stick to slogans, […]
by Robert Waldmann I think this is the best post I have read so far on the topic by Kathleen Geier. Just go read it before reading my comment below. Of course I have my usual comments: Thank you Kathleen Geier for your excellent post based on good shoe leather (OK leather ear to the phone) reporting. I […]
by Robert Waldmann What has Nate Silver done for us lately ? This isn’t really about Nate Silver. It is about poll aggregators in general and just as much about the Huffington Post pollster, Real Clear Politics and Talking points Memo as about Silver, Wang Linzer and others who try to estimate outcome probabilities […]