Taxation’s Rhetoric: Today and yesterday’s economic crap
by: Divorced one like Bush In a posting regarding which presidents would be considered socialist I found the following curious:1921 – 4% 73% Census1922 – 4% 56% Census1923 – 3% 56% Census1924 – 1.5%...
View ArticleOnce is History, Twice is Parody and Ignorance
Gary Farber (so far only via Facebook) (UPDATE: Now here) finds a reprint from the 8 March 1933 issue of The Nation: At the risk of gilding the tinsel, let the record be set down finally as The Nation...
View ArticleWhile You’re Busy Making Other Plans
Two Views of The Late Great Johnny Ace: 69 Years after his birth, my eldest daughter’s favorite band is The Beatles (slightly ahead of the JoBros). The main reason, apparently, is this film. (I’m...
View ArticleRoss Douthat and the cocoon
Robert Waldmann Douthat is worried about the Republican information cocoon. He thinks that conservatives should not rely so much on Fox News and should be open to media which they consider unfriendly...
View ArticleEverything Old is New Again, Part 1934-1937
I have (vainly, I suspect, in both senses of the phrase), tried to start a meme on Twitter, #ifTimGeithnerrantheEmergencyRoom. “The defibrillator would only charge to 30 to prevent scarring; anything...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Eases Bank Reserve Requirements
This is actually good news, since everything else the Fed has done has been to benefit the insolvent large banks. Still, I didn’t expect my post of three days ago to be such a perfect “negative...
View ArticleTime to Change Those Tags? or Economists Catching Up, Round Two
Brad DeLong, not generally a Leading Indicator in such matters, follows Mark Thoma yesterday in looking into the abyss and seeing the outline of a train around the “light”: Henceforth, I will call the...
View ArticleFleem, Super Fleem, and Fleem Plus
by Mike Kimel Assume a world similar to ours, but with a major difference. At some point in the 1920s, an inventor came up with a product called Fleem. Fleem has interesting properties, and when...
View ArticleTen Years Gone
NYTBR, 11 September 2011 Ten years ago today, nineteen people, including fifteen Saudis–using funding from the House of Saud and led by a distinguished member of that House–used airplanes to attack the...
View ArticleBusiness Destruction is Never Creative, Always Fatal
by Mike Kimel Via asymptosis this cartoon…. The post Business Destruction is Never Creative, Always Fatal appeared first on Angry Bear.
View ArticleHappy 56th Anniversary
Not a very long time, even if there were full and complete co-operation. Or, as LBJ said, Source (cross-posted from Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo) The post Happy 56th Anniversary appeared first on Angry...
View ArticleMan Bites Dog
Newt Gingrich tells the truth. “the individual mandate was originally developed by the Heritage Foundation and others, as a way to block Hillarycare.” Firebaggers argue that the PPACA is conservative,...
View ArticleThe Brute Economics of Slavery
Preramble: I posted this on my blog exactly a year ago today, in slightly different form. Dan linked to it once, from here, just a few weeks before I started writing for Angry Bear. Recent comments...
View ArticleAn Editorial on Robert Bork and his Legacy
On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Robert Heron Bork died at age 85. I did not mourn. Bork first became infamous in 1973 for his role in the “Saturday night massacre” when as Solicitor General, the...
View ArticleThe Great Recession captured in 1 minute of comedy
Just watch this. It is 1 minute long. Could it be anymore surreal? HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO DO THIS? HOW MANY FREAKIN’ TIMES DO WE HAVE TO LEARN THE LESSON? Obviously, the lesson has not been...
View ArticleGary Becker Has Died
Digging into her archives, a better economist and writer than I examines his work. Digging into our archives, AB alumnus and working economist Tom Bozzo did some heavy lifting on his political...
View ArticleThe Lies of Denialism
A bit of Tom Sullivan @ Hullabaloo this day. Democrat Moe Davis lost the race last fall for the congressional seat in NC-11 to Republican Madison Cawthorn. The seat was left open when Rep. Mark Meadows...
View ArticleJune 23, 2021 “Letters from An American”
chronicle of today’s political landscape The post June 23, 2021 “Letters from An American” appeared first on Angry Bear.
View Articlewheels of a global political and historical change
It is unusual for Prof. Heather Cox Richarson to have posted last night. The good Prof. of History typically rests on the weekend. Further down this post, you can read her latest. Just a bit more of my...
View ArticleAfrica, a biography
Just finished “Africa, A Biography of a Continent”” by John Reader. I don’t recall how this book came into my possession. It may have been on my mom’s bookshelf when we stopped by after they moved to...
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