As you know, I agree:
The Monkey Cage: What We Have Learned from the Health Care Debate: [R[]eporters start in with “news analysis” like this silliness from John Broder in Sunday’s New York Times. Here, climate change is framed around what Obama can or cannot accomplish, complete with portentous [...]
Yes, Tom Friedman is that big an amoral idiot.
Daniel Larison:
Eunomia » Friedman’s Jihad: Thomas Friedman’s new column reminded me of the line from Casino Royale: “Arrogance and self-awareness rarely go hand in hand.” In the same column in which he complains that Westerners treat Muslims as nothing more [...]
My friend Greg Rehmke just alerted me to this mid-November report appearing in the New York Times on ‘green energy.’ Note especially this passage:
The low sign-up rate [for 'green energy' programs] raises a question: If large majorities of Americans favor increased government support for clean energy, as polls suggest, [...]
Paul Krugman has sunk to a subterranean depth of pettiness in his New York Times post calling Austrians The new Larouchies:
Hmm. I'm fairly accustomed to having speaking events disrupted by Larouchies (when I was in Cambridge a while back we had a guy yelling about banana fungus, among other' [...]
THE New York Times' annual Year in Ideas is now online, and as usual there are some interesting social science findings. Like:
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Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times:
Thomas Friedman writes: “If we prepare for climate change by building a clean-power economy, but climate change turns out to be a hoax, what would be the result? … [G]radually we would be driving battery-powered electric cars and powering [...]
Marcus Lattimore, a running back [...]
This has got to belong in the New York Times crashed-and-burned-and-smoking watch:
Stanely Fish: My assessment of the book has nothing to do with the accuracy of its accounts. Some news agencies have fact-checkers poring over every sentence, which would be to the point if the book were a [...]
Looking down this New York Times buyout list from Gawker, I am reminded of the cartoon where Dibert explains his company's buyout program thus:
we have to pay the good people to leave.
If any news organization wants to gain credibility with me at least, hiring a chunk of these' [...]
TODAY'S recommended economics writing:
Should public sector job creation be a focus of government policy? A debate. (New York Times)
The [...]
From the New York Times:
The decline of the American dollar has led to a trade imbalance north of the border, on the rinks of the National Hockey League.
Over the past two decades, the Canadian teams in the N.H.L. were considered poor cousins of their colleagues in the United [...]
SUNDAY'S New York Times featured a Jared Diamond piece on the potential for business to be green, that is, to do more [...]
From my friend Jeff Scott, a link toGretchen Morgenseon's column in the New York Times [Why Treasury Needs a Plan B for Mortgages] :
Of course, cries of moral hazard will erupt if borrowers get large cuts in their principal balances. Rightly so. [...]
Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times:
RE Thursday’s White House “Jobs Summit” (”Obama Turns to Job Creation, but Warns of Limited Funds,” Dec. 4): the language is misleading.
Jobs themselves do not need to be created, for they are among the most abundant opportunities in [...]
Much of my own research has focused on how physician financial incentives affect the quantity and quality of medical care. It should come as no surprise that I found a recent New York Times article on the topic stimulating. Dr. Sandjeep Jauhar examines how hospital and physician financial incentives [...]
Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times:
Pleading for government to address today’s unemployment problem more vigorously, Paul Krugman writes that “The long-term unemployed can lose their skills, and even when the economy recovers they tend to have difficulty finding a job, because they’re regarded as [...]
But that good life is under threat today as never before. SAS’s specialty, a lucrative niche called business intelligence software, is becoming mainstream. Free, open-source alternatives to some of the company’s products are increasingly popular. On the other end of the spectrum, the heavyweights of the [...]
Why do Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff think that Robert Rector is worth quoting?
It is a mystery:
The Safety Net - Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades: Now nearly 12 percent of Americans receive aid — 28 percent of blacks, 15 percent of Latinos and 8 percent of [...]
Here’s a letter that I just sent to the New York Times:
Paul Krugman supports a “Tobin tax” as a means of reducing speculation (”Taxing the Speculators,” Nov. 27).
Bad idea. Speculators buy assets only when they predict that these assets’ prices will rise; speculators sell assets only when they predict [...]
This article in the New York Times lays it out.
Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to [...]
