Is Keynes finished?
Robert J. Samuelson says yes. Paul Krugman says no. I say we’ll be arguing about this stuff for the next 100 years at least.
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Obama in Kansas: no fair!
My article about the theme of societal and economic “fairness” in Obama’s Kansas speech is up at PJ. Join the comments either there or here. Or both, if you’re feeling especially talkative.
Continue reading →Send not to know for whom the bell tolls…
…it tolls for book publishers.
Continue reading →Kinsley on what Obama left out of his Kansas speech
Michael Kinsley dissects Obama’s Kansas speech—otherwise known as his attempt-to-channel-Teddy-Roosevelt speech—and finds it wanting in several telling ways: …[I]n addition to being unfair, [Obama’s] conflating actual crooks and the innocent affluent makes it hard to claim that raising their taxes … Continue reading →
Unemployment figures “unexpectedly” lower
Down to a whopping 8.6. Of course, this may mean that more people have dropped out of the search: “You’d like to see the unemployment rate coming down when people are coming into the job market, not disappearing,” James Glassman, … Continue reading →
Banks, Europe get a reprieve
For now. More here.
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Continue reading →Dueling Madoff interviews
Bernie and Ruth Madoff, who no longer speak to each other (at her request) since their son’s suicide, have nevertheless got dueling TV interviews going. Hers will be seen on this Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” while his with Barbara Walters is … Continue reading →
The stock market…
…is a complete mystery to me: “Dow headed for best October ever.
Continue reading →So, what do you think…
…of Perry’s plan?
Continue reading →Why are these cities so empty?
Here are the five emptiest cities in American today. Anyone know why these particular ones (I’m busy today and don’t have time right now to do the research)? Were they especially overbuilt in terms of housing during the go-go years? … Continue reading →
Dropping the CLASS Act fiction
Now that it’s not needed any more to help the CBO score Obamacare as reducing the deficit, the CLASS Act portion of the bill is being dropped and revealed as the dysfunctional charade it always was: “CLASS is a critical … Continue reading →