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The New York Times Editorial Board Writes In a recent report, economists at Goldman Sachs estimated that the House cuts would reduce economi...

Stever Pearlstein wrote a very good column about the struggles of governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin with Wisconsin public sector unions, W...

Matthew Yglesias does it again. I think very highly of Matthew Yglesias, but I don't want this blog to consist entirely of comments on h...

Felix Salmon has a proposal Pfau makes a very basic calculation that for someone on a constant real wage, saving for 30 years and then livin...

Belusconi nei Guai con donne No not the million or so who protested Sunday and not the one's he invited to his bunba bunga. The ones th...

If the Republicans said the Earth was flat, what would Obama say ? Obama: Opinions on the shape of the planet differ. Both sides have a po...

Matthew Yglesias writes "I actually think this kind of question is better investigating initially through theory. If you’re thinking ab...

Eschatonblog sends me to this post by Avedon Carol and I am totally disgusted Well Avedon Carol certainly writes well. In fact I think that...

Clash of the Titans. The struggle for world domination begins. Communists vs Capitalists passé. Jihadis vs everyone else never came close....

By @robertwaldmann twitter-demand I have a fan who refers to "your fans" in the apparent belief that he is not alone. He liked th...

Normally distributed asset returns and CARA utility make the mean variance approximation exact. My correspondence Dear Pro.Waldmann I'm...

Matthew Yglesias writes Ragu Rajan ... his explanation of why economists didn’t predict the crisis: I would argue that three factors largely...

Matthew Yglesias Argues agains t Direct election of Presidents and for a Parliamentary system The problem with a strong president, especiall...

What is Bing doing with Google ? Shane Greenstein provides a very clear explanation and critique. I comment. I was interested in finding ou...

Here's another one on utilitarianism and hypocrisy Sometimes I am a utilitarian. Usually I am some sort of consequentialist with some b...

More from DeLong on Hypocrisy. Recall I will use his content fairly if and when his blog stops eating my comments. Update: It didn't ea...

Comments on Brad's comment eating horror of a blog update: the comment below appears on Brad's blog. It hadn't appeared when I...

Attempted DeLong Smackdown I can't stand it. english.aljazeera.net streaming video (find the link yourself you competitor for band width...

Coner Friedersdorf - 3 = a banana Always click the link -- K Drum Fridersdorf wrote "In 2008, 59,934,814 Americans voted for John McCa...

Duncan Black made me angry. So angry I defended Joe Klein. I may forgive but I will never forget this. He wrote Having not lived through t...