The Law of Supply and Demand

Jonathan Chait brings it all together for me. There are just a lot of people out there exerting significant influence over the political debate who are totally unqualified. The dilemma is especially acute in the political economic field, where wealthy right-wingers have pumped so much money to subsidize the field of…

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Why I Wish I Were Paul Krugman

Besides the whole Nobel Prize thing, it’s his ability to cut through the BS in the OpEd pages of The New York Times to get to the heart of the matter.

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Paul Jumped the Shark

No not this shark (why the hell is he called a shark anyway) but the proverbial one! Paul Ryan (R-Wall St.) gave a rhetoric filled class warfare speech denouncing class warfare rhetoric at the Koch Brothers founded far right wing Heritage Foundation. The full text can be found here*. Be…

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