Angry Bear

Entirely forseeable costs and how to pay is the real debate...not the rhetoric

by coberly Robert Samuelson has written an article so nasty and dishonest that decent people might wish to avert their eyes. But the 288 comments on his website suggest that enough people believe...

Open thread Dec. 5, 2009

Open thread Dec. 4, 2009 (no GW)

Employment Report

By SpencerThe BLS just wished the Obama administration a very merry Christmas with a very encouraging employment report. It was still a report that things are worsening at a lesser rate as far as...

I Tend to Describe this as "Unwarranted Optimism"

The Shrill One (tm - Brad DeLong) as Optimist:The result, then, will be high unemployment leading into the 2010 elections, and corresponding Democratic losses. These losses will be worse because...

Simple Answers to Simple Questions, Floyd Norris/GS Edition

Floyd Norris is Shocked! Shocked! to Find Goldman Sachs controls Congress as well as the Treasury. Where has he been for the past three years?Imagine the reaction if, perhaps during the 1998 Asian...

Mid week open thread Dec. 3, 2009

Quote of the Decade, if it goes the way I expect

I would much prefer to think that all of this is a matter of his life being in turmoil throughout this decade, rather than Larry Summers being right about anything.Scott McLemee on Cornell West, with...

Same Store Sales

By SpencerWith Christmas season upon us and a great deal of attention being focused on the retailers reports of same store sales I thought it would be a good time to report on one of my pet peeves.I...

Cross-post: A human economy for the twenty-first century

Professor Keith Hart, author of the book The Memory Bank and proprietor of the blog of the same name, has graciously allowed AB to cross-post his 6,000+ word essay, A Human Economy for the...