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Ryan Avent Reads Greg Mankiw

I am not sure that "interesting" is the word, Ryan.

Ryan Avent:

Fiscal policy: When does fiscal stimulus work?: Greg Mankiw has produced an interesting assessment of fiscal policy in National Affairs. He is perhaps a little unkind toward last year's stimulus package. Contra his assertion, tax cuts played a significant role in the stimulus package, and the models used by administration economists called for a larger bill than subsequently passed. It also seems odd to knock the Obama...

We Must Reopen the World's Stupidest Man Alive Contest for Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator

Neddy Merrill:

Your idiolect is not the language « The Edge of the American West: It’s only Monday morning, but I hope this is the stupidest thing I read all week. Jeffrey Lord: Sherrod’s story about a lynched relative is false--the man was merely beaten to death after being arrested. No, seriously, that’s what it says.

A Task for Somebody Less Lily-Liverish than I Am and with More TIme than I Have...

It would be a mitzvah if somebody took:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/07/department-of-complete-180-degree-intellectual-reversals.html

and:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/270e1a6c-9334-11df-96d5-00144feab49a.html

and cut-and-pasted them into a Niall Ferguson vs Niall Ferguson debate...

UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias and Ryan McNealy have answered the call: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/niall-ferguson-debates-himself/. Now that's what I call message...

A Task for Somebody Less Lily-Livered than I Am and with More TIme than I Have...

It would be a mitzvah if somebody took:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/07/department-of-complete-180-degree-intellectual-reversals.html

and:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/270e1a6c-9334-11df-96d5-00144feab49a.html

and cut-and-pasted them into a Niall Ferguson vs Niall Ferguson debate...

That Worry About Providing Health Insurance Is Small Businesses' Number One Problem Is Nothing New...

From http://www.nfib.com/Portals/0/ProblemsAndPriorities08.pdf:

That's why we tried to do health care reform in the Clinton Administration, remember?

Liveblogging World War II: July 26, 1940

July 26, 1940:

World War II Day-By-Day: At 2.47 PM, 320 miles West of Ireland, U-34 fires three torpedoes at convoy OB-188, sinking British passenger ship Accra carrying 1700 tons of general cargo (24 dead). 465 survivors are rescued by British steamer Hollinside, Norwegian steamer Loke, sloop HMS Enchantress and corvette HMS Clarkia and landed at Liverpool. British MV Vinemoor is hit and sinks the next day (all 32 crew picked up by HMS Clarkia, transferred to steamer Hollinside and...

Liveblogging World War II: July 22, 1940

July 26, 1940:

World War II Day-By-Day: At 2.47 PM, 320 miles West of Ireland, U-34 fires three torpedoes at convoy OB-188, sinking British passenger ship Accra carrying 1700 tons of general cargo (24 dead). 465 survivors are rescued by British steamer Hollinside, Norwegian steamer Loke, sloop HMS Enchantress and corvette HMS Clarkia and landed at Liverpool. British MV Vinemoor is hit and sinks the next day (all 32 crew picked up by HMS Clarkia, transferred to steamer Hollinside and...

What He Does Not Say Is That English 400 Years from Now Will Be Spoken with a Bombay Accent...

xkcd: Period Speech:

links for 2010-07-25

Scott Lemieux: On the Worthlessness of "Authenticity" As A Criterion of Value

B: "If authenticity mattered Billy Ray Cyrus, born into a Pentecostal family in KY, would be a much better musician than Ingram Cecil Connor III, better known as Gram Parsons, who was driven to prep school by a chauffeur, but I'll be damned if Hickory Wind isn't an infinitely better song than Achy Breaky Heart."





Jon Hilsenrath: Deflation Defies...

Department of Complete 180 Degree Intellectual Reversals...

I haven't seen anything this big since John Yoo's pivot to his current position from his 2000 claim that Bill Clinton had exceeded his powers as commander-in-chief by placing U.S. forces under a British NATO general...

Niall Ferguson, New York Times December 12, 2003:

President Both: Bush Can Have Both Guns and Butter, At Least for Now SECTION: Section 4; Column 1; Week in Review Desk; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1640 words: GUNS or butter: this is the choice historians conventionally say that...