Dylan Matthews, guesting at Ezra’s place, provides this handy dandy chart to track Jim Cramer’s predictions on the Dow: He concludes, Actually, I’ll give Cramer some props. With the small exceptions of Boeing, GM, and IBM, the market tends to do the reverse of what he anticipates. ...

Kommer den militære anbefaling af hvilket fly, der skal være fremtidens jagerfly i det danske flyvevåben først i maj og ikke som ventet i slutningen af april? Noget kunne tyde på det. Følg med her: Egentlig havde jeg her skrevet et langt harmdirrende indlæg om hvor skandaløst det var, at For...

Try to imagine a young educated marxist conscript who had lost his consciousness during the Battle of the Somme, was then cryogenically frozen, and only revived last year. What would be his analysis of the conflicts in the Middle East? To answer this, consider John Spritzler's latest contribution. T...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

IS OBAMA AN AUTHORITARIAN? I wrote the article below for the Philadelphia "Bulletin" and it appeared there on 10th. I think its interest is not confined to Philadelphia, however, so I reprint it below. My many academic papers on authoritarianism can be accessed here Among psychologists, the word "au...

CQ's Josh Rogin reports: The White House has given the Pentagon guidance to delay procurement of aerial refueling tankers by five years and cancel plans for a new long-range bomber, according to three sources close to the discussions. No final decisions have been made, and the recommendations are pa...

An Air Force C-37A, the preferred mode of transportation for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (USAF photo). When the CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler flew their private jets to Washington last December--to request government bailout money--members of Congress had a fit. "It's almost like seeing a guy ...

By Debbie Schlussel On this site, I've repeatedly decried the litigation explosion--oodles of dumb, frivolous lawsuits and class actions that clog the system and make everything more expensive for the consumer. And while I'm all for tort reform, I'm completely opposed to giving special exemptions to...

CQ's Josh Rogin reports: The White House has given the Pentagon guidance to delay procurement of aerial refueling tankers by five years and cancel plans for a new long-range bomber, according to three sources close to the discussions. No final decisions have been made, and the recommendations are pa...

Weather Report's second "phase" (1973-76) established its (now famous) sound. Changing personnel marked each of Weather Report's first five albums, and Black Market carried forth that tradition, with Chester Thompson, Narada Michael Walden, Alex Acuña, and Jaco Pastorius all making their Weather Re...