In Dealscape - Posted 4 hours ago

The Treasury Department is sharing details of its plan for infusing $700 billion in congressionally-appropriated money into the financial system with ...

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In Dealscape - Posted 10 hours ago

As the Troubled Asset Relief Program morphs into an effort to inject some of the $700 billion directly into distressed financial institutions (even if...

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In Big Picture - Posted 15 hours ago

Over the past several weeks and months, we have continually identified errors, flaws and mistakes being made by policy makers. Some of these errors we...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 22 hours ago

Attention, unnamed McCain advisors: Lindsey Gramm said that McCain was contemplating fighting the financial crisis by cutting taxes on capital gains...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 1 day ago

Thanks. This is appreciated: Greg Mankiw's Blog: Economists Against Obama: A list recently released by the McCain campaign [claimed to be 100; actuall...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 day ago

One of the more interestingly intellectual jihads I came across recently was this strange commentary in the FT this week. It was an incontinent lament...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 1 day ago

Not really. But the media death spiral watch continues, led by the Politico. You remember Paul Krugman's joke--that if Bush said the world was flat, r...

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In Economist's View - Posted 2 days ago

It wasn't Fannie and Freddie, and it wasn't the CRA:Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis, by David Goldstein and Kevin G. Hal...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 2 days ago

Michael Berube speaks to conservatives: [Y]ou could take poor flailing David Brooks as a model. One day after this humble blog suggested that high-...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 3 days ago

When John McCain, onstage on Tuesday night, said It's my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal. But I know how...

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