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Judge Posner, who in addition to being the co-author, with his Nobel Laureate friend, of the Becker-Posner blog is an Atlantic corresponde...

A few months ago, we mentioned James Kynge's 'China Continental' thesis. In that post, we excerpted an essay Kynge had written i...

From an interview with the prolific inventor in Popular Mechanics (HT: Megan McCardle ): Popular Mechanics : Yet health-care costs do keep...

A CNN Money article today lists the most lucrative undergraduate degrees (see the graphic above) and notes that, unsurprisingly, they all r...

In a post last fall ( "A Green New Deal?" ), we mentioned Van Jones's explication of the idea, advocated by many progressives,...

A few excerpts from this week's Thoughts from the Frontline newsletter, "Faith Based Economics" : On America's Fiscal Chal...

Over the weekend, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, in an op/ed in the Wall Street Journal ( "How Republicans Can Build a Big-Tent Pa...

Here's the video of last night's fight, followed by a few thoughts by me below. - I'm glad I didn't pay $49.95 to see this ...

I'm not a frequent viewer of The Daily Show, but I have to give a little credit where credit is due. By suggesting that if certain liber...

From Dr. Hussman's latest market commentary, "Money Doesn't Grow on Trees" : On the BofA/Merrill Lynch deal: [I]nstead of ...

A Wall Street Journal column last week by the Democratic Political consultant Mark Penn, "America's Newest Profession: Bloggers fo...

I'd been meaning to comment on Matt Miller's op/ed column in last Monday's Financial Times ( "Businesses must wake-up and ...

You be the judge. From his "Economic View" column in the New York Times yesterday, "It May Be Time for the Fed to Go Negativ...

From what appears to be Ross Douthat's penultimate post on his Atlantic blog, before his move to the New York Times op/ed page ( ...

Interesting comment from Tom West on a health care post on Megan McCardle's Atlantic blog: Boy, the more I read, the guiltier I feel a...

The Wall Street Journal explains the Obama Administration's new plan to buy bad assets off of the books of banks ( "U.S. Sets Plan...

In a recent post ( "More Obama Supporters Concerned by the President's Recent Actions" ) we noted that Warren Buffett and Jim ...

Since one of President Obama's three main policy priorities is reforming health care, and since progressive pundits often make invidious...

From Stewart Taylor's essay in the National Journal ( "Obama's Left Turn" ): Having praised President Obama's job per...

From Jim Cramer's open letter to the White House yesterday: I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-r...