Entitled One-Percenter Bill Keller Wants Baby Boomers to Give Up Social...
Smarmy former NYT editor Bill Keller From today’s New York Times: “The Entitled Generation.” The notion that our generation has been spoiled rotten is not a terribly new thought. A dozen years ago Paul...
View ArticleWas I Dreaming? Did Mitt Romney Really Lose the Election?
Which of these guys really won the election? Is Mitt Romney the President-elect or what? For the past several days, the media and the Republicans have acted as if they won. In fact, President Obama won...
View ArticleThursday Reads: War on Women, the Fiscal Cliff, and Austerity Arriving in the...
Good Morning!! Brrrrrrrrrr! All of a sudden winter has arrived! Can you believe it’s 4 degrees outside my house? With a wind chill factor of 6 below 0. My furnace can’t keep up in this kind of...
View ArticleIncestuous Amplification and the Beltway Feedback Loop
So, all you kind folks that get up way too early in the morning for my tastes and habits sent me to the Morning Joe website to watch Paul Krugman commit beltway heresy. I actually had to play it twice...
View ArticleThe Sequestration Blues: Part 2 Pete Peterson Creates a Crisis
Ben Bernanke joined the chorus of economists concerned about the impact of the sequester on the sluggish recovery. This is not the first time the Fed chair has commented on misguided and dysfunctional...
View ArticleMonday Reads
Good Morning! Last week, I wrote about the debacle behind the study that was used to promote fiscal austerity in a time when just the opposite policy is prescribed by economic theory. One of the big...
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