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December 2011 (1 post )
- 12/19: ‘Barney Frank schools Paul Ryan on the economy’ (5 comments)
November 2011 (8 posts )
- 11/03: ‘Inequality becomes destabilizing … the recession was created by that 1%’ (59 comments)
- 11/03: ‘I pay more federal income taxes than General Electric’ (42 comments)
- 11/02: ‘Imagine if today’s Fed governors were appointed by China and Saudi Arabia.’ (52 comments)
- 11/02: ‘They think 9.1 percent unemployment is fine’ (49 comments)
- 11/02: ‘Are the Greeks crazy?’ (207 comments)
- 11/02: ‘A people’s default is conceivable. A people’s austerity is not.’ (37 comments)
- 11/01: What makes a strike ‘general’? (40 comments)
- 11/01: General Strike! (48 comments)
October 2011 (13 posts )
- 10/31: ‘This is not to say that the government knows better than private markets…’ (217 comments)
- 10/30: ‘Not just wealth inequality but power inequality’ (31 comments)
- 10/29: ‘So [anarchism] wasn’t insane’ (43 comments)
- 10/28: ‘Oppose us while using our language’ (36 comments)
- 10/28: ‘Damn good advice’ (30 comments)
- 10/26: Taking Back Oakland (227 comments)
- 10/26: ‘It really, really is 99 vs. 1′ (499 comments)
- 10/26: CBO gets it: inequality is the issue! (84 comments)
- 10/26: ‘Occupy Sanctuary!’ (46 comments)
- 10/25: ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 99 Percent’ (36 comments)
- 10/24: ‘Demands, democratization, and OWS’ (42 comments)
- 10/22: Cooperation, evolution, and reproduction (34 comments)
- 10/19: ‘Just being here is enough’ (231 comments)
September 2011 (7 posts )
- 09/29: The Gentle Rebellion (50 comments)
- 09/27: What if ‘efficient markets’ is a tautology? (192 comments)
- 09/22: Reaction to Market Monetarism (36 comments)
- 09/19: The evolution of cooperation (38 comments)
- 09/17: Markets are subordinate to governments (43 comments)
- 09/14: Socialism as ‘Kantian Economics’ (39 comments)
- 09/14: Is Socialism the Default Position? (38 comments)
August 2011 (6 posts )
- 08/26: What does it mean to maximize utility? (461 comments)
- 08/22: “Drawing Keynesian conclusions from Austrian premises” (45 comments)
- 08/21: Answer to an Austrian, Round II (340 comments)
- 08/21: Response to an Austrian (155 comments)
- 08/16: “Keynes brought back the moral problem” (42 comments)
- 08/07: Quote & commentary: ‘Blindness’ (36 comments)
July 2011 (11 posts )
- 07/31: Also, this. (151 comments)
- 07/31: A liberal monetary policy catches on (39 comments)
- 07/30: Sunday Steinbeck (39 comments)
- 07/22: Uphill liberalism (155 comments)
- 07/19: Liberals and monetary policy (41 comments)
- 07/19: Eurobonds (34 comments)
- 07/18: Monday reading: from The Grapes of Wrath (154 comments)
- 07/17: Prices and values (164 comments)
- 07/13: The wrong road for market-statism (0 comments)
- 07/12: Morality and the market-state (46 comments)
- 07/12: ‘Reason will not help.’ (61 comments)
May 2011 (1 post )
- 05/17: Biological Basis for Political Orientation Reveals Much About It (144 comments)
April 2011 (14 posts )
- 04/27: Conservative Fiscal Policy Is Really Conservative Social Policy (103 comments)
- 04/26: “Laboratories of Socialism” (243 comments)
- 04/25: All Policy Is Social Policy (153 comments)
- 04/15: The Fun Begins in Earnest (141 comments)
- 04/12: Eyes on Obama (315 comments)
- 04/11: Fiscal Policy is Only A Tool of Social Policy (136 comments)
- 04/10: What’s in the Debt, or, Why It’s Just An Excuse for Class Warfare (212 comments)
- 04/07: Alternative Budgets (254 comments)
- 04/06: A Big Win In Wisconsin (73 comments)
- 04/06: Ryan Rundown (155 comments)
- 04/05: How Should the Left Use the State? (37 comments)
- 04/03: “Revealed Preferences” (40 comments)
- 04/02: Government Spending Creates Jobs (Now With Proof!) (39 comments)
- 04/01: Ezra Klein Figures It Out, or, WTF GOP?!?!?! (149 comments)
March 2011 (12 posts )
- 03/31: How Was Income Growth Shared? (42 comments)
- 03/31: Tagline Change Redux (181 comments)
- 03/29: Collective Bargaining for Consumers (51 comments)
- 03/28: By the Way, Austerity Doesn’t Work (157 comments)
- 03/28: “The challenges of hiring and managing modern day serfs” (163 comments)
- 03/27: Neoconservatism’s Fascist Roots (154 comments)
- 03/26: Statism and Socialism (35 comments)
- 03/25: In Soviet Russia, the IRS pays YOU! (41 comments)
- 03/24: Is Collective Ownership Enough? (182 comments)
- 03/23: China Prepares its Welfare State (31 comments)
- 03/22: Conservatives Love QE2 Now? (164 comments)
- 03/03: Unions Need to Get Competitive (170 comments)
February 2011 (23 posts )
- 02/28: Oh Hey There, Quantitative Easing (51 comments)
- 02/25: The Onion on Reagan (775 comments)
- 02/24: Programming Note (817 comments)
- 02/24: Labor Unions: All or Nothing? (783 comments)
- 02/23: Security-Statism and Budget Cuts (688 comments)
- 02/23: Collective Bargaining and Education Outcomes (880 comments)
- 02/22: Distributing the Deficit, Again (654 comments)
- 02/18: Watching Wisconsin (724 comments)
- 02/18: Even Conservatives Like Public Enterprise (874 comments)
- 02/17: Security-Statism in One Chart (735 comments)
- 02/15: Tea-Party Security-Statism (54 comments)
- 02/15: Security-Statism in Wisconsin (39 comments)
- 02/13: Government by Continuing Resolution (34 comments)
- 02/10: The Capitalist Recovery (37 comments)
- 02/09: Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and Inequality (43 comments)
- 02/08: Against Capitalism (56 comments)
- 02/08: What happens if conservatives kill ACA? (40 comments)
- 02/06: Collective Ownership Pays Off For Packers (39 comments)
- 02/05: A More Perfect (European) Union (153 comments)
- 02/04: Wage Divergence, Too (188 comments)
- 02/03: Noam Chomsky on Egypt, Inequality, and Global Security-Statism (61 comments)
- 02/02: Where Has All the Money Gone? (173 comments)
- 02/01: True Conservatives Have No Party (32 comments)
January 2011 (23 posts )
- 01/31: Inequality as Prisoners’ Dilemma (141 comments)
- 01/30: Why Demand Money? (48 comments)
- 01/29: Extra Pain in State-Level Austerity (41 comments)
- 01/28: Global Security-Statism (169 comments)
- 01/28: What Is ‘Full Employment’ Anyway? (37 comments)
- 01/27: What Austerity Looks Like (37 comments)
- 01/26: PBS Beats Out Private Networks (173 comments)
- 01/25: State of the Union: Wordled (37 comments)
- 01/25: State of the Union Ups and Downs (43 comments)
- 01/25: The Economy Is Back On Track – The Rich Are Just Hogging It (40 comments)
- 01/24: Collective Power and Politics (47 comments)
- 01/24: Gearing Up to Cut Us Down (39 comments)
- 01/23: Coordination Failure As A Cause of Recession (43 comments)
- 01/22: State-Based Government Is Very Regressive (153 comments)
- 01/21: The Republican Plan for National-Security Statism (168 comments)
- 01/20: Printing Money at Goldman Sachs (33 comments)
- 01/18: Why Democrats Should Do the Deficit (149 comments)
- 01/15: Eyes on the Euro (41 comments)
- 01/14: Socialism Saves AIG (38 comments)
- 01/11: This is Quantitative Easing (38 comments)
- 01/11: The Market Cannot Help the Poor (190 comments)
- 01/08: The Fight for Redistribution at the Local Level (31 comments)
- 01/07: Do Democrats Care About Inequality? (36 comments)
December 2010 (10 posts )
- 12/28: Rents and Inequality (39 comments)
- 12/24: It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world! (42 comments)
- 12/16: Bush Tax Cuts Extended, Appropriations Pulled: Bill Clinton Wins the Night (46 comments)
- 12/15: Today I Punt (39 comments)
- 12/14: Profit Is Not Evil, But It’s Well-Correlated (201 comments)
- 12/13: Distributing the Bush Tax Cuts (52 comments)
- 12/11: Distributing the Deficit (157 comments)
- 12/10: Germany on European Assumption (152 comments)
- 12/02: For A European Assumption (38 comments)
- 12/02: Here Goes, Well, Nothing (170 comments)
November 2010 (17 posts )
- 11/30: How to Heal the Eurozone (46 comments)
- 11/23: Doubling Down on Debt (168 comments)
- 11/22: A Politics of Failure (33 comments)
- 11/17: Or They Could Just Do Nothing, and Win (38 comments)
- 11/15: Did the Tea Party Matter? (38 comments)
- 11/11: What Does The Debt Report Mean? (33 comments)
- 11/10: On Long-Term Growth (76 comments)
- 11/09: Democrats Need A New Political Advisor (160 comments)
- 11/08: Reflation and Quantitative Easing (250 comments)
- 11/04: Two Years Of Nothing? (41 comments)
- 11/03: Today In Money (56 comments)
- 11/03: Overall, Not A Bad Night (170 comments)
- 11/03: Now It Gets Interesting (60 comments)
- 11/03: Where to Watch? (35 comments)
- 11/02: What The World Thinks of Us (29 comments)
- 11/01: The War Dividend (35 comments)
- 11/01: Two Democratic Alaskan Senators? (106 comments)
October 2010 (14 posts )
- 10/29: European Finances in Ruins as Austerity Fails (38 comments)
- 10/27: Reflation: Is It Enough? (55 comments)
- 10/27: Reflation: Stimulus From the Fed (161 comments)
- 10/25: Apple: Mass Transit as Social Loss Leader (34 comments)
- 10/24: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right (116 comments)
- 10/22: Stimulus = Free Lunch? (51 comments)
- 10/22: China and Stimulus (33 comments)
- 10/21: Ahhhhhh! Sterity! (43 comments)
- 10/20: Bailed Out at a Profit (58 comments)
- 10/19: No More Heath Insurance for Kids? (82 comments)
- 10/15: Reflating Wages to Reduce Unemployment (176 comments)
- 10/13: On 4% Inflation (38 comments)
- 10/06: The Case for (Even More) Stimulus (160 comments)
- 10/05: TARP Might Pay for Itself (40 comments)
August 2010 (9 posts )
- 08/12: Social Security’s Non-Crisis (37 comments)
- 08/11: Should Democrats Lose the House? (44 comments)
- 08/10: The Constantly Progressive Consumption Tax (172 comments)
- 08/09: Fairness, Taxes, and the Bush Oddity (158 comments)
- 08/06: Stimulus: A Shot in the Arm (187 comments)
- 08/04: GDP, Hedonics, and Imputation (175 comments)
- 08/03: Listen to the Man (216 comments)
- 08/03: The Laffer Curve (45 comments)
- 08/02: The World We Wish We Lived In (184 comments)
July 2010 (9 posts )
- 07/30: Paul Ryan, Back Asswards (71 comments)
- 07/27: Recession and Fiscal Policy (but not Vice Versa) (77 comments)
- 07/21: Wall-Marx, or, I Am An Economic Creationist (50 comments)
- 07/19: The View From 1943 (30 comments)
- 07/16: Campaign Cash (178 comments)
- 07/15: Cap-and-Trade Consistency (172 comments)
- 07/15: Done and done. (41 comments)
- 07/08: Lies, Charts, and Unemployment Insurance (40 comments)
- 07/01: No More Careers (36 comments)
June 2010 (14 posts )
- 06/30: From The Ground Up, Part 1 (165 comments)
- 06/23: Why Not Overdraft “Loans”? (148 comments)
- 06/21: FCC to Kill the Internet … Not. (167 comments)
- 06/21: Congress Can’t Control the Deficit (33 comments)
- 06/11: Transparency Fail (112 comments)
- 06/08: Politics? What Politics? (33 comments)
- 06/07: Economists’ Nightmares (149 comments)
- 06/07: You Can’t Stimulate Consumption (163 comments)
- 06/04: XKCD Wins the Day (181 comments)
- 06/04: Cutting Taxes Hurts The Economy (130 comments)
- 06/04: Unintentionally Temporary (57 comments)
- 06/02: Vindicated (183 comments)
- 06/02: Immigrants Create Jobs (55 comments)
- 06/01: In Defense of Israel (186 comments)
May 2010 (17 posts )
- 05/29: Their Fair Share (49 comments)
- 05/27: Contra Bernanke, Inflation Edition (35 comments)
- 05/27: Why We Can’t Cut (39 comments)
- 05/25: Wrong on States’ Rights (48 comments)
- 05/25: Cato Strikes Back (154 comments)
- 05/24: Cutting Yourself (45 comments)
- 05/23: Right on Rand (42 comments)
- 05/23: Don’t Sell the Roads! (40 comments)
- 05/23: Digital Leviathans (44 comments)
- 05/21: Amnesty Economics (170 comments)
- 05/20: Rand Paul’s Civil Rights Cockup (40 comments)
- 05/20: Elected Lords Are Rubbish (51 comments)
- 05/19: Gold Members (40 comments)
- 05/18: Sovereignty and Statehood (43 comments)
- 05/18: Kagan’s Socialist Thesis (44 comments)
- 05/18: ‘Complete the Danged Fence’ (39 comments)
- 05/17: Welcome Back (53 comments)
March 2010 (30 posts )
- 03/25: The Civil War Is Back, and the GOP Takes the South’s Side (35 comments)
- 03/24: Vote-a-rama is on! Oh…. (170 comments)
- 03/24: Conservatives Realize They Were Lied To (42 comments)
- 03/23: The New Bicameralism (53 comments)
- 03/17: Links for 03-16-2010 (49 comments)
- 03/16: Apologies (41 comments)
- 03/16: Links for 03-15-2010 (215 comments)
- 03/15: Links for 03/14/2010 (44 comments)
- 03/15: Remembering Ronald “Big Government” Reagan (38 comments)
- 03/14: Why the Slaughter Rule is Constitutional (86 comments)
- 03/14: Corporate Diplomacy (32 comments)
- 03/13: Links for 03/12/2010 (35 comments)
- 03/12: Links for 03/11/2010 (52 comments)
- 03/11: “Slaughter’s Solution” – Health Bill Procedure Ready To Go (296 comments)
- 03/10: Links for 09/03/2010 (44 comments)
- 03/09: Links for 08/03/2010 (157 comments)
- 03/08: Links for 07/03/2010 (30 comments)
- 03/08: Palin: Health Bill Too Conservative (40 comments)
- 03/08: The Health Bill Is Really What Republicans Want (41 comments)
- 03/07: Obama Health Bill Is What Republicans Want (40 comments)
- 03/05: I Have Never Seen An Economist Agree With A Republican. (36 comments)
- 03/05: Democrats to Listen to GOP and “Start Over?” (34 comments)
- 03/04: Links for 2010-03-04 (108 comments)
- 03/04: Links for 2010-03-03 (46 comments)
- 03/03: Rep. Ryan, GOP Plan To Be Taken Seriously (39 comments)
- 03/03: GOP Fired Previous Parliamentarian For Stopping Them (38 comments)
- 03/02: Links for 2010-03-02 (155 comments)
- 03/02: GOP to Bunning: “Stop Drawing Attention To Us!” (185 comments)
- 03/01: NYT, WSJ Officially At War (43 comments)
- 03/01: Amazing Obama? (145 comments)
February 2010 (24 posts )
- 02/28: Translating Allahpunditry (52 comments)
- 02/28: Partisanship and Filibusters: GOP Flip-Floppery (159 comments)
- 02/23: Is George Soros Plotting Against the Euro? (53 comments)
- 02/22: “The Republican party “lost its way” because of McCain’s radical progressive agenda.” (36 comments)
- 02/22: What do Beck, Krugman, and Wikipedia Have In Common? (170 comments)
- 02/21: Unintentionally Sad Political Cartoon of the Day (179 comments)
- 02/20: What Has The Senate Stopped? (29 comments)
- 02/18: Rich White People Want Citizens United, But Nobody Else Does (152 comments)
- 02/18: A Winner Is … Obama! (153 comments)
- 02/17: Japan Holds More US Debt Than China (61 comments)
- 02/16: CT-GOV: Lamont! (145 comments)
- 02/15: Obama To Save the Democrats (29 comments)
- 02/14: Who We’re Dealing With (35 comments)
- 02/13: Two GOP Goose Eggs (39 comments)
- 02/12: Why Deficits Are Good (37 comments)
- 02/12: Reconciliation Is Not Controversial (31 comments)
- 02/09: “Screw Majority Rule, We Run This Place” (37 comments)
- 02/06: This Is The Right-Wing On … Drugs? (39 comments)
- 02/05: The Real Reagan Record (160 comments)
- 02/04: No Health Bill = More Government (35 comments)
- 02/04: Reason on Citizens United (147 comments)
- 02/02: Single-Payer Hopes Live On (41 comments)
- 02/02: Why Democrats Are Failing (169 comments)
- 02/01: GOP Health Care, Budget Plan Two-In-One (36 comments)
January 2010 (11 posts )
- 01/19: 59 > 60 (237 comments)
- 01/12: Cheers from England! (171 comments)
- 01/06: Dodd and Dorgan to Retire (35 comments)
- 01/05: Because, Of Course, Transgender Persons Have No Diversity (38 comments)
- 01/05: “Never Stop Cowering” (179 comments)
- 01/04: Michael Steele’s Book Reminds Readers Who He Is (34 comments)
- 01/03: Marty Perez Has A Very Short Memory (39 comments)
- 01/03: Obviously, Obama Must Be High As A Kite! (36 comments)
- 01/03: The Stupidest Things I Have Read Today (148 comments)
- 01/02: Would Hillary Have Been Better Than Obama? (37 comments)
- 01/01: Krauthammer Is Wrong, Way Behind Re: Napolitano (319 comments)
December 2009 (42 posts )
- 12/30: Heckuva Job… Dubya? (63 comments)
- 12/29: Conservative Call To Torture Abdulmutallab (144 comments)
- 12/27: Nate Silver’s Calculus of Terror (29 comments)
- 12/27: Now, Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Fearmongering (51 comments)
- 12/24: Why Democrats Have Won (149 comments)
- 12/24: The Senate’s Christmas Present (156 comments)
- 12/23: Is Nelson’s Medicaid Deal A Public Option? (159 comments)
- 12/22: Jim DeMint, the Health Bill, and Senate Rule Changes (48 comments)
- 12/21: Why We’re Stuck With The Filibuster (41 comments)
- 12/21: Health Care Passes Senate (36 comments)
- 12/20: Republicans and Health Care (167 comments)
- 12/20: The Debt’s Not So Bad (156 comments)
- 12/19: Health-Care Criticism From All Sides (39 comments)
- 12/19: My Recent Sentiments Exactly (34 comments)
- 12/19: As Always, Progress (42 comments)
- 12/12: Contradictory Headlines (151 comments)
- 12/11: Next Year’s News (43 comments)
- 12/11: Paul Krugman vs. Reality (151 comments)
- 12/11: Dodd: Down and Out? (37 comments)
- 12/11: Joe Lieberman “Irritated” in Compromise (36 comments)
- 12/11: Will the House Compromise? (143 comments)
- 12/10: Debt Limit to Rise by $1.8T (33 comments)
- 12/10: Will Dems Really Own Health Care? (41 comments)
- 12/10: Titanic Now More Popular Than Hitler (46 comments)
- 12/10: “A Total Victory for Fans of Single Payer” (32 comments)
- 12/09: Obama On Board With Compromise (38 comments)
- 12/09: The Truth About Health Reform (39 comments)
- 12/09: Are We There Yet? (38 comments)
- 12/08: Lieberman, Snowe, Nelson (39 comments)
- 12/08: The Public Option Is No Longer “Public,” But I Like It (41 comments)
- 12/07: EPA Endangerment Finding Statement (40 comments)
- 12/07: Obama and the Press Corps (141 comments)
- 12/04: Ezra Klein on Ben Bernanke (35 comments)
- 12/03: Hoping for Parliamentary Breakdown (38 comments)
- 12/03: Can We Fault Bernanke for Doing the World’s Hardest Job? (34 comments)
- 12/02: Tombstone of the Republic Indeed. (39 comments)
- 12/02: Who Does Obama Think He Is? (37 comments)
- 12/02: Bizarro World, Afghanistan Style (33 comments)
- 12/02: Would Healthcare Stifle Charity? (37 comments)
- 12/01: Medicare for All (39 comments)
- 12/01: Could Obama Be Another Clinton? (Part 2) (855 comments)
- 12/01: Could Obama Be Another Clinton? (706 comments)
November 2009 (24 posts )
- 11/30: Lieberman Back on Short List (175 comments)
- 11/30: Presidential Moms and Dads (59 comments)
- 11/30: Allusions of Grandeur (38 comments)
- 11/30: Washington Post Wrong on Health Costs, Bailouts (159 comments)
- 11/25: Happy Thanksgiving! (33 comments)
- 11/24: Landrieu’s Price (37 comments)
- 11/23: Dear Alan Grayson, the Senate is not the House. (157 comments)
- 11/23: Sometimes It’s Too Easy… (51 comments)
- 11/23: 2010 Losses for Democrats (42 comments)
- 11/23: Jobs to Recover in Time For Democrats to Win (37 comments)
- 11/22: Master of the Obvious, or, I Agree With Joe Lieberman (164 comments)
- 11/20: Preserve the Federal Reserve (161 comments)
- 11/20: Alignment of the Stars (160 comments)
- 11/20: Lieberman Abandons Reason, Democrats (163 comments)
- 11/19: Inflation is Good, For Now (35 comments)
- 11/19: Sarah Palin, 2012 (173 comments)
- 11/19: Reid Health Bill and CBO Score (36 comments)
- 11/18: Harbinger of Victory: Public Plan in Reid Bill (32 comments)
- 11/18: The Shape of the Negotiating Table (48 comments)
- 11/18: Self-Destructing Democrats (35 comments)
- 11/18: Adolf Hitler and National Economic Strategy (37 comments)
- 11/17: This I will never understand. (36 comments)
- 11/17: “Some [environmental] groups like to say bombastic things…” (43 comments)
- 11/17: Hugs and Kisses (33 comments)