Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I am appalled by the Trump administration policy of separating parents and children just because they crossed the border without permission....

In a generally good article on how Trump got nothing out of Kim in Singapore, David Nakamura, Philip Rucker, Anna Fifield, and Anne Gearan ...

Danger Will Robinson danger. I am currently locked out of twitter, which is convinced I may be a 'bot. Twitter machines keep politely ...

I have a fond memory of reading either The Washington Post or the late lamented dead tree Newsweek back in the 1970s. The article discussed ...

I wrote about this at angrybearblog , but I think I might have joked too much and besides I was ignorant then. The question is whether the...

(pdf of this post available here ) The great recession of 2008-9 followed an extraordinary house price bubble. The sluggish was characteri...

One of the core principles of Liberalism is that there must be equality before the law. The law must not discriminate. In practice, this p...

I ì'm reading the Washington Post and note one very outstanding op-ed by Catharine Rampell which you should just read. She links to ex...

So it turns out that Noted commentator Matt Bruenig has an almost unique perspective because he can read but hasn't read any Harry Potte...

I am so thrilled that I cyber-know two of the four finalists in THE GARY COHN MEMORIAL NEOLIBERAL SHILL BRACKET --- that I wrote a fight so...

In the middle of a very courteous, diplomatic, and insightful post about Modern Monetary Theory Simon Wren-Lewis recalls his student days ...

Showing my age, I am remembering Carly Simon's "You're so Vain" when it was new and constantly played on the radio. I w...

@JewishCoffeeH tweeted The part that's not a joke is that he thinks lifetime presidential terms are desirable, whether he was referrin...

First rules of blogging. I type as I please. I haven't read anything by Karl Mannheim but I think he wrote the phrase "social c...

It is progress that hack conservatives are bothsidesing now. Jonah Goldberg correctly notes that the problem isn't just Trump but also b...

I thought it was all so absurdly simple after all that I could explain to the many readers over at AngryBear. But I am so bad at expressing ...

Below, I tried to understand why Brad DeLong and Greg Mankiw were having so much trouble understanding each other. The story so far: Delong...

I think you should read this post by Brad DeLong to understand the issue and the very grave condition of the discussion in which academic...