My Kernel, My Null

As was to be expected, Greg Mankiw didn't stop at posting Eichengreen's link (see my previous entry ), but found a different and, f...

No, I'm not dead nor have I been spirited away. And no, I didn't give up blogging. Instead, I've been blogging quite frequently ...

Source. True, Obama cheekily dismissed budget projections (and hence, implicitly, budgets in general) last Tuesday night, but for those of u...

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Newsweek (!!!) has a cute little piece on Larry Summers. Here's my favorite, non-policy relevant part: Summers is generally said to suf...

Clive Crook : Economics outside the academy has become the continuation of politics by other means. If you wish to know what Mr Krugman thin...

Graph time! Two of my favorites this week! First one: as of 1/21/09, US commercial bank capitalization is less than the second tranche of TA...

"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system." G. W. Bush, Dec. 16, 2008 Source.

"Bankruptcy is not the same as liquidation." Source.

This is at least the third time since the early 80s that the US automakers have asked (and in now seems, received) some form of Federal bail...

Yet another failed attempt to pass the rescue package for US automakers. How long before they try again? February? (Aside: Will GM's, Fo...

After reading GWB's interview in the National Review Online , I've become convinced he missed his true call in life: author of self...

The lonely tree in the Amazon rainforest that is this blog, it will attempt a return. Of sorts. Emphasis on "attempt." Many things...

Agree or disagree, it's a conversation starter. Source: Peter Brookes, TimesOnline