Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Brad Mourns the Early End after a Promising Start of applied lefty evolutionary economics which occurred, for some strange reason, at about...

Excellent news from Baghdad Sunni Insurgents Battle in Baghdad Residents of Western Neighborhood Join Groups' Fight Against Al-Qaeda in ...

Matthew Yglesias is especially brilliant and ruthless in this skewering of Bob Shrum "Shrum and Dumber Memoirs of the man who thrice sa...

Possible desirable effects of irrational exuberance Gross 2007 argues that bubbles may be a good thing. Many people have read Gross 2007. ...

Soak the Rich II dollars and no cents. Thousands, Millions, Billions and Trillions. More information on what I mean in terms of dollars (an...

News From Newark Mr. McCarthy has instructed commanders in the city’s four precincts to take on so-called quality-of-life offenses like publ...

Meet the new Republican candidates Same as the old Republican candidate. Excellent article by Peter Canellos in the Boston Globe (via TPM )...

John at Ezra's place writes writes if he writes a chapter in his book where he goes over, in great detail, the historic and modern day ...

Untimely Ripped comments on my post below This was over at dailykos where the post and comments are long buried. Actually, I think Jefferson...

Kevin Drum attempts to explain economics to economists. I must be ironic right ? I'm not suggesting that this guy with a degree in comm...

Big Surprise. I agree with an SUV Driver on Something Via Mark Thoma "Tim Haab at Environmental Economics explains why he drives an SUV...

Pelosi is a Peloser I'm sad to say. Everyone knows that congress caved and gave Bush an Iraq supplemental with no timelines. I was als...

I Blame the Democrats Democrats said this week they would have jeopardized their fall bargaining position if they had insisted on keeping wi...

A Critique of Critical Criticism or For a ruthless critique of the ruthless critique of everything existing. A tenet of liberalism is that a...

Spencer Ackerman All Wet Trying to grasp a can made of soda

I get Shrill with Ezra Klein Klein wrote David Brooks gets this analogy right: Harvard is tough to get into. To be admitted to a school ...

Brad please check your e-mail at delong@econ.berkeley.edu. Please please ignore tojbd.pdf which I wrote overnight on a bet (with you althou...

Excellent article on Columbia's Truth Commission by Juan Forero in the WAPO Former commanders of the extremely violent right wing parami...

Handicapping the Iraqi Presidential Elections McSweeney’s Internet tendency has already done the USA Abdul Aziz al Hakim Pro: Has well arme...

I am glad to say that I have always considered astrology ridiculous but how else to explain the fact that Mark Kleiman and Matthew Yglesias...