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Buce: A Repo Man Spends his life Getting Into Tense Situations Great moments with Mr. Nixon Worrying About the Housing Bubble: Hoisted from the Archives from July 2005 FireDogLake Health Care Whip

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Pete Davis expresses the sentiment very well: Thank You Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky: I've always wanted to thank Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-PA) for her courageous deciding vote for President Cli

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From :Maria Farrell: I really don't know what to say Crooked Timber: Sad and upsetting times in Ireland. Cardinal Brady... was instrumentally involved in the closed investigation of the monstr

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Mickey Kaus writes: Mickey Kaus: I had been making in the mid-90s, and then I had to take a pay cut.... I m fortunate to make any money as a blogger. There are some who make more. Most of them work

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Jonathan Bernstein: A plain blog about politics: Watching Health Care Week: For those who want to follow it more obsessively, David Dayen seems to have the best whip count out there, Greg Sargent and

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Rajiv Sethi: Rajiv Sethi: An Ecological Perspective on Financial Market Reform: Note that if Lehman were the only firm engaged in such practices, we would probably have had a contained bankruptcy rath

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Posted 16 hours ago

David Dayen: New Health Care Whip Count: 191 Yes, 203 : Definite YES: 191 Democrats. Definite NO: 178 Republicans, including Joseph Cao (R-LA), who voted Yes in November (he s in the Stupak bloc

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Worrying About the Housing Bubble: Dean Baker is more than worried about the housing bubble: CEPR Press Release (07/07/05): The ABC of the Housing Bubble.... Over 2 million housing units are being bu

Tags: economy federal reserve gdp inflation

Posted 19 hours ago

Via Kathy: Great moments with Mr. Nixon: Richard Nixon: You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates. John Ehrlich

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Buce writes: Underbelly: A Repo Man Spends his life Getting Into Tense Situations : Repos and off-balance sheet financing: you don't want to know the details but I spent a good part of my academic li