Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Kevin Drum has a funny but also genuinely interesting post on how boomers are not really to blame for messing up America (he half tongue in...

Not the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost. There are other trinities in our religious tradition. One is faith hope and caring. They sure a...

Read Brad's post . my comment on "Milton Friedman's redefinition of "neutral monetary policy" to mean "whatev...

I think it might be time for an update on the crudest of tiny sample reduced form analysis of fiscal policy and the current recovery. One...

Barry Ritholtz has doubts about data presentation at the New York Times His commentary is very brief "What is this about? Is it guil...

This is a comment on a comment and is here only because I can't insert a figure in a comment section. Click the link. Good point. Also...

Who told Kay Steiger that I don't read Raccoona Sheldon AKA James J Tiptree Jr I-m not actually sure that's who she accused her re...

Pope Leo I had an interesting career involving some difficult negotiations. He reasond with Attila about the wisdom of invading Italy and c...

Don't you hate it when you have a good title and no post to go after it ?

I have to write this. It isn't worth tweeting or posting at Angrybear. It's about me and no one should care. I am having a pro...

I recall being surprised to learn that I was born, bred and then living South of the Mason Dixon line. I considered the border between Nort...

The smart and ruthless Jon Chait writes of the Trump administration "(petty graft ranging from lavish office expenses to making staff p...

Max Boot is a candidate member of the Rubin Gerson can't be a conservative anymore, because I always agree with them club of Washington ...

Jon Chait remains as enthusiastic about Barack Obama as I am, so it isn't surprising that he wrote a blog post entitled "If Only Ob...

In a clinical trial the therapy is decided by a pseudo random number generator. How can this be ethical ? People are treated differently ...

When incurious George made a total mess of everything, I hoped the man in the yellow hat would save the day. But I didn't photoshop it....

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that he doesn’t want President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency to fund the wall because of the p...

The very wonderful Charlie Pierce faceplants here In an interview with Anderson Cooper, she [@AOC]posed a top marginal tax rate of 70 per...

(most boring title after "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative" but I couldn't resist) Web savvy ultra wonk Matthew Yglesias wrote ...

not for publication, but published here h.t. Evan Hurst CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION. Julian Assange has publis...