Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Manchination (noun) an clever action violating logic decency and, especially, partisan loyalty leading to Senatorial election. The etymol...

Alternative Title Kentucky Lied Chicken Grammatically correct alternative alternative title Kentucky Chicken Lied. Did you know that Mi...

QOTD "Should Republicans start endorsing plans to give poor people more money? Well, sure, that would be great. It would also be great ...

Chait just wrote a post entitled "Lanny Davis Defending Clinton With Innovative New Media Strategy: Print-outs" "They are...

Keeping up his usual standard of being a better economist than the vast majority of PhD economists, Kevin Drum has an absolutely brilliant f...

I have been clicking Chait self links enjoying his mockery of the very silly centrists who dream of bipartisanship. This paragraph is bri...

Ron Fournier had a huuge day on the internet today. He was declared Wanker of the day by Atrios and caused the ever polit Kevin Drum to w...

I recently discussed recently discussed (again) whether it is reasonable to assume (just as a rough first approximation) that people have r...

This started as a comment on Wren-Lewis too. I discover that he does have a length limit. The methodology used by most economists has cha...

Simon Wren-Lewis is extremely polite as usual. He wrote Tony Yates today criticises Paul Krugman’s argument that economics had the answe...

Jay Rosen is a leading critic of what he calls "he said/she said" journalism (he seems to have coined the phrase). In a recent po...

This excellent post (read it) is important but there is a minor irony. One of the main obsessions of those who contrast Keynesian econom...

Pulled back from comments to this post . Peter said... Krugman just the other day: "...Consider the somewhat similar debate in the...

Brad DeLong read an essay on the ACA by Reihan Salam. He summarised it and politely contested Salam's conclusion. I read only his summ...

I read the Wikipedia a lot. Usually I just google something and the Wikipedia article is the first hit. I am amazed by the breadth of the ...

An e-mail exchange. Marco F. wrote Ciao Robert, Tutto bene? I'm very keen to read your view! A presto. Marco [skip] http://delong.t...

Simon Wren-Lewis asked heterodox economists a questio n I thought it might be useful to give an example of why I find thinking about a rep...

Jon Chait wrote a post entitled "Why the Clintons Can’t Handle the Media". He concedes that "It is probably true that the C...

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 ...