Ta-Nehisi Coates: Chris Rock On The Negro Dialect Paul Krugman: The Obama Administration: Pretending To Be Stupid Felix Salmon: Global financial regulatory reform falls apart Tim Duy’s Fed Watch: Dissent The FOMC statement contained a mini-bombshell, t…
Paul Krugman asks: >whyPad?: I’ve been reading all the stories about the iPad and sort of wishing I could find some reason to get one. But I can’t come up with a justification. Right now, I carry a dumb phone — GSM, so it works all over the wo…
While the banks are currently taking the blame for the financial crisis, there are other culprits who share at least as much blame, and sound guilty before you even know anything about them: the shadow banks. While SIVs, SIV-lites, CDOs and other struc…
Obama Campaigns Against Spending Freezes – Obama campaigns against spending freezes Joe Klein: Too Dumb to Thrive An Interview with Elizabeth Warren Dean Baker: Faux News on Fifteenth Street (i.e., the Washington Post) Endorses Bernanke Alec Macgillis:…
Paul Krugman: >Of Fate and Fumbles: It has not been a good year for Obama, or for the progressive agenda. But why? Ignore all the pontificating about how Obama needed to focus differently, seek bipartisanship with people who have no interest in maki…
Scarecrow: Why Bernanke’s Confirmation Is, and Should Be, in Trouble Barry Ritholtz: What Balanced Market Reporting Looks Like: The FT Christina Bellantoni: House Doesn’t Trust White House or Senate On Health Care http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ta…
The internet’s Chief Bernanke Apologist Officer? That’s me. And I guess I have to speak because Paul Krugman is “agonizing” over the Ben Bernanke question. Paul writes: >The Bernanke Conundrum: I’m agonizing — which isn’t a place I ever expect…
Justin Fox Paul Krugman: Do the Right Thing Matt Zeitlin: Getting Bernanke Out The Worst Possible Way Mark Thoma: Bernanke’s Reconfirmation Chances Fall Scott Winship: The Living Standards of the Poor Gillian Tett: Pitchforks take on Terminators Ed Kil…
He writes: >Glass-Steagal, Part Deux: So what do I think about the new White House initiative on limiting bank size and restricting the activities of depository institutions? >1. It’s OK as part of a broader financial reform, and is a good sign…
1) Via Paul Krugman: TA.C.Pigou: Economics of Welfare: >Corresponding to the above investments in which marginal private net product falls short of marginal social net product, there are a number of others, in which, owing to the technical difficult…