Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Today is the real opposites day.  David Brooks and Bill Kristol ! said almost sensible things about the Romney 47% are moochers secret video...

I have always assumed that Romney must be smart, because of the way in which he acquired great wealth.  Yes he was ruthless and dishonest (t...

QE III is not just a shift towards more use of the expectations channel.  Aside from being open ended it is also qualitatively different fro...

Krugman is a hero and I am a cad.  He blogged after flying with a cold and I commented as follows You are a total hero for blogging with...

Our New York Times.  Caught by surprise, the New York Times committed some actual journalism lifting the rock and showing the Romney campaig...

Omigod.   Steve Benen makes an arithmetic mistake .  Even more oppositely on point 12 of the chronicle of Mitt's mendacity XXXIII Mitt i...

I suspect that the associated press's "fact check" of Bill Clinton's speech will end up as famous as lying Ryans Lying sp...

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" What monumental sculptures could possibly stan...

Like everyone I hate the captcha illegible letters one has to read to prove that one isn't a robot. I met it when commenting on Ed Kilgo...

Jon Chait is not disappointed by Obama.  He has one "to be sure" disclaimer Obama has screwed up plenty of things himself, most...

I have had some problem getting over my distress about one long ago Ed Kilgore post so it is with great pleasure that I comment that I absol...

Omigod Sept 4 2012 really is opposites day.  Ezra Klein made an incorrect claim of fact about health care financing.  He wrote But I’m no...

Irony day continues.  Now Dougj at Balloon Juice entitles a post " Facts are for the little people " In that very post on conte...

Dean Baker writes When people thought the stock market would just keep rising (an assumption that was explicit in all the privatization pr...

Rendell  is similar to Ryan Rendell = Ryan Ed Kilgore, acting like an inside the beltway reporter, considers the facts irrelevant.  He ...

Senator Rand Paul Verified ‏ @ SenRandPaul Mad a/b the weather or bad forecasts? I wouldn't complain, Nat'l Weather Svc just or...

Brad DeLong excerpts something by David Glasner Consider how Bernanke explains the way that the composition of the Fed’s balance sheet c...

Ben Bernanke who knows a lot more on the topic than I do claims that there is fairly strong evidence of stimulatory effects of Large Scale A...

governing America requires partisan deals that are also impossible. @mattyglesias

Yglesias has a post here.  He has a much more provocative tweet here Matt Yglesias  ‏ @ mattyglesias Michael   Woodford  knows how to...