J. Bradford DeLong's Blog, page 2306
May 18, 2010
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SB: "CAN'T BRING THESE FOLKS ANYWHERE.... The Maine Republican Party... endorsed a right-wing party platform combining "fringe policies, libertarian buzzwords and outright conspiracy theories." Almost as interesting was the Maine GOP's behavior.... GOP members used an eighth-grade classroom for a caucus meeting, and took it upon themselves to start making some changes.... '"We allowed them...
Exorbitant Privilege Rocket Jetpack or Wile E. Coyote Moment?
What explains the continued extraordinary high prices of U.S. Treasury securities given a massively disfunctional U.S. political system and Republican Party?
Is global demand for dollar assets in a safe haven the equivalent of a rocket jetpack for the U.S. economy, or are we waiting for a Wile E. Coyote moment?
Stacy-Marie Ishmael writes:
FT Alphaville » The Treasury non-conundrum, or why yields are trading below 3.6%: SocGen economist Aneta Markowska affects bemusement at the...
Tuesday Primary Twittering
Oliver Willis:
Twitter / Oliver Willis: so, right now if rand paul ...: so, right now if rand paul was in the KY dem primary... he'd be in third place. #justsaying #p2
Peter Lauria Says That Gillian Tett Is Now a Celebrity...
He writes:
The Most Powerful Woman in Newspapers?: As The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bash each other, the Financial Times, led by its sharp, glamorous new U.S. editor, Gillian Tett, intends to become a status symbol of American business. "I brought the English weather with me," bemoans Gillian Tett, the new U.S. managing editor for the Financial Times, as she steps into the Peninsula Fives restaurant in Manhattan last Wednesday morning, dressed in a fuchsia raincoat...
The Future Is Not Evenly Distributed, But It Is Very Definitely Here
Joel Johnson:
The iPad Is Such A Great Travel Computer I'm Selling My Laptop: Nothing about this story is inherently all that shocking. More or less I just told you: "I used an iPad." But the real-life experience hammered home how useful this form factor really is, primarily because of its ridiculously good battery life. I went nearly 24 hours without charging my iPad, watching four hours of video, reading books for a couple of hours, getting in a few rounds of Strategery, and still...
Department of "Huh?!"
Marc Ambinder is unaware that there was ever such a person as George W. Bush:
Why Blumenthal's Not a Liar: In the United States, military service is sacral; it conveys an instant authority, a pedigree, a cultural backstop for character. Lying about it, even exaggerating about it, is therefore instantly disqualifying...
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