Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Writing about Donald Sterling, Michael Tomasky is the latest Democrat to irritate me by conceding that, yes Republicans had a point about A...

I'm pretty sure that Josh Marshall and Jon Chait don't know that the case of Cliven Bundy and all the other racist flakes who ...

Ed Kilgore wrote From time immemorial, many Democrats who are really into “base mobilization” urged the party to go big on “populist” econ...

Brad DeLong sent me to this wonderful post by Ezra Klein . Read it. Psychologist Dan Kahan studies motivated reasoning, confirmation bi...

I advised Kevin Drum to beware of Doug. Now I think he has way to favorable a take on the latest CBO score. He wrote Ryan's 20...

His bleg is my command. Paul Krugman requires an answer to The Question "How Do You Say “Nobody Could Have Predicted” In Swedish?...

Kos et al (OK Kos et Jedius Lewifillius) understate the glorious accomplishments of Jimmy Carter (no I'm not kidding I mean it). They b...

Markos Moulitsas founder editor and owner of the number one traffic political blog, key to the election of two senators(Webb and Tester) vit...

Over at Angry Bear I have c ontinued my imitation of an old economist who never learned modern macro theory or econometrics who is analyzin...

Chait wrote "David Corn, who appears to possess incriminating video of everybody in America" I hasten to add that Corn obtains...

In the middle of an e-mail exchange on the topic of whether it is reasonable to speculate that Charles Koch suffers from paranoid schizophre...

In the post below, I linkened to Jon Chait denouncing Politifact for calling the DNSC's add asserting that Republicans proposed eliminat...

It is too early to say that the Kochtopus has sung it's swan song, but is sure seems that they have thrown about as much bullshit in the...

Waldmann is a rare name in the USA and even Waldman isn't so common. Oddly there are many prominent Waldmans on the internet (including...

Krugman suspects that super rich class interest has something to do with fear of inflation. I comment I am very sympathetic to inflatio...

I comment on Kevin Drum commenting on Paul Krugman (do click the links) I think that Krugman is wildly over theorizing and that even you...

Tom Tommorrow has to write tomorrow's cartoon yesterday to keep his right wing nutjob characters ahead of US Senators.

Only now do we learn of Kevin Drum's personal interest in Antitrust enforcement actions regarding Apple. On Mar. 25, 2014 9:58 AM GMT *...

Now Kevin Drum agrees students shouldn't be forced to have facebook accounts . Again I agree. But he doesn't seem to have attended...