Yes They Did
By Jesse Singal - Dec 11th, 2008 at 11:43 amAccording to The New York Times, the good guys won in the Republic Windows and Doors factory standoff:
The occupation of a window-manufacturing plant here…
Posts Tagged ‘economic crisis’
An Economic Mandate We Can Believe In
By Austin Thompson - Dec 1st, 2008 at 9:30 amLast week, when discussing his vision for the US economy, President-elect Barack Obama for the first time expressed a “mandate to move the country in…
I Don’t Really Care if Auto CEOs Fly in Private Jets
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThere’s been a lot of controversy over the Big 3 automobile companies’ CEOs flying to Washington on private jets and then asking for huge sums…
The College (Soon-to-be) Dropouts
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pmVia Jason Zengerle, Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe has a long, soul-crushingly dark account of what a 21st century depression would (will?) look like.…
Summers v. Geithner
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pmYou really owe it to yourself to read Noam Scheiber’s piece in The New Republic about Larry Summers and Federal Reserve Bank of New York…
Wonk Convergence
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pmOne of the more pernicious memes as the election drew to a close was that President Obama will not be able to enact a progressive…
Expensive Colleges Feel the Economic Crisis, Too
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pmYou’d think with a hefty tuition of almost $50,000 a year per student the most expensive colleges in the country would be comfortably insulated from…
The Unconventional Wisdom of John Kenneth Galbraith
By Austin Thompson - Oct 15th, 2008 at 11:18 amIn tonight’s final, high stakes presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, the American economy will likely take center-stage once again. But to gain…
Think She Wants a Do-Over?
By Jesse Singal - Oct 15th, 2008 at 9:29 amMegan McArdle on Paul Krugman on the economy, from a January 2008 blog post entitled “Will the economy decline in 2008?”:
Paul Krugman is voting…
Iceland’s Economic Cool
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 14th, 2008 at 11:15 amIn a recent Democracy in America post the author jokes that “Britain and Iceland [are] gearing up for a new cod war…” The saying that…
More on Krugman’s Nobel
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 14th, 2008 at 9:27 amAs Ned noted yesterday, Paul Krugman has won the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,” a.k.a. the Nobel Prize in…
Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pmIt’s a good day to be one of the few remaining reasons to read the New York Times opinion section. Paul Krugman just picked up…
It’s Like Getting Beat Up but Not Noticing Until Years Later
By Jesse Singal - Oct 10th, 2008 at 4:20 pmThe economy is far from my strong suit, but Reihan Salam’s explanation of recent political-economic history makes sense to me:
Until recently, many observers, most…
A Really Reasonable Reptile An Awesomely Articulate Amphibian
By Jesse Singal - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is one smart frog:
(UPDATE: Pushback’s favorite libertarian commenter, The Waterman, pointed out in comments that frogs are amphibians, not reptiles, which forced me…
The McCain Homeowner Plan, Take Two
By Jesse Singal - Oct 9th, 2008 at 9:45 amJohn McCain’s campaign has revised the controversial mortgage relief proposal he put forth during Tuesday night’s debate.
From Politico:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an…
