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May 29, 2010
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Robert L. Cavnar: Top Kill Likely a Failure
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Lanny Davis's Strange Take On Rand Paul
T-NC: "[W:]hat Davis cites is the inverse of reality. Davis's conjured Rand Paul is a libertarian. The actual Rand Paul told TIME, "I'm not a libertarian." Davis's conjured Rand Paul is pro-choice. The actual Rand Paul wants a constitutional ban on...
James Fallows on How the Republican Party Hurts America
James Fallows:
Weakening America: Mitch McConnell Shows How: Depressed about how hard it is to get first-rate people into federal jobs, so they're ready to handle emergencies like the BP oil disaster? Wondering if our systems of self-government really are up to the challenges of the moment? Curious about whether people who complain about Senate obstructionism and tyranny-of-the-minority are exaggerating? Consider the works of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY (below), on the Senate floor 36...
A Missing Macroeconomic Playbook?
I am reminded of the extraordinary gulf between economics as I see it and economics as at least some others see it when I read things like Narayana Kocherlakota's opening paragrapb:
Modern Macroeconomic Models as Tools for Economic Policy: I believe that during the last financial crisis, macroeconomists (and I include myself among them) failed the country, and indeed the world. In September 2008, central bankers were in desperate need of a playbook that offered a systematic plan of...
Shut Down the New York Times Today...
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
I have reached my limit with the New York Times: I think it would be a better world if it shut tomorrow--all of the best and some of the good journalists would go elsewhere and do their work, and a lot of bulls--- would vanish from the public debate.
In the summer of 2009 President Obama and his administration reached out to Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA): "the wingnuts are going to beat you in the Republican primary next year," they said. "But...
Shut Down the New York Times Today
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
I have reached my limit with the New York Times: I think it would be a better world if it shut tomorrow--all of the best and some of the good journalists would go elsewhere and do their work, and a lot of bulls--- would vanish from the public debate.
In the summer of 2009 President Obama and his administration reached out to Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA): "the wingnuts are going to beat you in the Republican primary next year," they said. "But...
Eleanor Roosevelt Liveblogs World War II: May 29, 1940
Eleanor Roosevelt:
My Day: It is interesting to note in some of the papers during the last few days, the suggestion that to insist that the hours of labor shall not be increased is a short-sighted policy in view of the fact that rapidity of production is necessary. It seems to me that the people who say this are forgetting the fact that an employed nation is necessary for the survival of a democratic form of government, and that it will be time enough to increase the hours of labor...
May 28, 2010
links for 2010-05-28
Matthew Yglesias: The Chinese Economic Model: State-Led Development to the Max
MY: "The really striking facts... "of the 22 Chinese corporations listed on the Fortune Global 500, 21 are controlled by China's central government or state-run banks." The closest analogy it seems to me is probably to France... the western country to have been least-impacted by the neoliberal turn away from state ownership of...
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