Robert's Stochastic thoughts

The usual. You confidently assert that the Fed can control nominal GDP and chose a path below the trend line. Why not just cut out the midd...

A Partial Defence of Ben Bernanke Suddenly, I feel very lonely. Paul Krugman has ceased to defend Ben Bernanke. His partial defence of Be...

David Brooks vs Google part MMMCCCXLIV He watched a musical and then wrote Rigorous codes of conduct allow people to build their character. ...

I am always amused by the utter contempt for the Constitution typical of self proclaimed "constitutional conservatives." "Rem...

Confession Penance and Absolution for Bloggers Jacob Weisberg confessed and his Shrillness himself has denied him absolution. Confession I d...

E.J. Dionne and Charles Krauthammer agree on something and they are wrong. Krauthammer wants the Republicans to run in 2012 the way he think...

Below I complain that Jon Chait has a Climited* view of possible taxes but this post is brilliant. He askes why Paul Krugman and David Brook...

Chait on Weisbert on Ryan In a typically excellent post , Jonathan Chait notes that Jacob Weisberg admits that he was maboozled by Paul Ryan...

Uh oh Matthew Yglesias writes about a topic about which I know something -- taxes and growth. He concedes that it isn't a topic which w...

WWW.washingtonpost.com headline guy (or gal) now with screenshots A more complete headline would be "Poll Finds Little Support for Debt...

Huh ? WTF ? I checked this blogs technorati rank. I get that it has authority 465 which gives it rank 3856 ??? That is 3857 out of 1,195,4...

Minds link alike. Kevin Drum quotes the same snark as my first quote of the day of yesterday. He says the point is that the USA is the only...

One more Quote Today (at least) Great review of "Atlas Shrugged" at alicublog . One sentence sums it up "It's like a ver...

I stand corrected. The correctly scored quote of the day (via Think Progress, Balloon Juice , and daily Kos) Albert Einstein said that a li...

QOTD Libya “has not been a very big war. If [the Europeans] would run out of these munitions this early in such a small operation, you have ...

Daily Yglesias link. On monetary policy. Now for something completely different. I think that M Yglesias gets it exactly right in this pos...

Matthew Yglesias has gone too far this time. He reads a report on the effect on 2 year Treasury yields of public speaches and interviews of...

Today's comment on Yglesias. He's tromping all over my turf. He went out of his way to say he isn't worried about financial arso...

The Gallup Poll on the Budget Deal is Very Interesting It has been discussed by Krugman , Klein and Drum . It shows that the Republican Par...

Kepler I am continuing my posting as an amateur historian of science. This post will be alll from memory -- no links and certainly no refer...