I swear, Milton Friedman is spinning in his grave... The debate over at the website of The Economist is even more horrifying than I thought it would be, as Luigi Zingales simply does not appear to have thought any of the issues through at all. I think that his views are what Steve Sheffrin calls the...

Over at http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/03/10/this-house-believes-we-are-all-keynesians-now/?disqus_reply=7087846#disqus-claim, Will Wilkinson writes: Brad DeLong and Luigi Zingales debate it at Economist.com. DeLong’s opening statement too effectively arrays a huge amount of intel...

Satyam Khanna reports: Sen. Bennett Lashes Out At Sen. McCain: ‘We Ought To’ Infest Arizona With ‘Mormon Crickets’: Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beave...

He misses two important threads. Had John McCain won last November, very few of the New Deal denialists would be out in public--instead, the Republican legislators and their tame intellectuals would be enthusiastially rallying behind McCain's tax cut-based Keynesian fiscal stimulus package right now...

He thinks that Obama is not doing well, but that there is no reason to think that McCain would be doing any better: The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers: I’ve gotten this question from several of my conservative friends lately. They know that I publicly dec...

(March 6, 2009 08:08 AM, by Arnold Kling) Gregory Clark moderates. There is almost no enlightenment, but plenty of rhetorical metaphors. For example, about 38 minutes in, Boldrin says, "If the guy has a broken nose, you don't put a band-aid on his butt." I stopped listening shortly......

GM warned last month that its auditors, Deloitte & Touche, could raise those concerns, but the announcement underscored the stakes for G.M. as it sought up to $30 billion in government aid to restructure with a bankruptcy filing. “Our recurring losses from operations, stockholders’ d...

Gerardo asks a question about last night's U.C. Davis debate on the stimulus: Hoisted from Comments: Brad, any ideas as to why in last night's debate Mr. Boldrin avoided any reference to his work on opposition to the stimulus bill? It was an interesting "debate". It seems you only debated yourself, ...

Delaware - Bill Colley over at WGMD has a great post on the current state of the Sussex County GOP.  The Sussex GOP needs to learn that elitism is as bad as anti-intellectualism (no I’m not calling them smart) and Bill needs to learn to insert a line break here and there. Sussex County cr...

A very smart middle-aged Washington economic policy bureaucratic hand emails me his reaction to the New York Times's "When Will the Recession Be Over?": Whoa. Just realized. Kevin A. Hassett is now sounding more coherent and sensible than William Poole. Dear god. Not only does the Emperor have no cl...