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Daily Archives: March 15th, 2008

The Cassandra Effect

Paul Krugman has a blog, and today he takes note of a phenomenon that is, unfortunately, not confined to economic prognostication: Dean Baker is mad at Robert Rubin for suggesting that “few, if any” people saw the financial meltdown coming. I’d say that there are two levels to this. First, a lot of people — […]

Free John Stewart!

I have mentioned before that I watch very little TV. I tape the Daily Show and Colbert on my computer, edit out the commercials, and my wife and I watch it. That’s pretty much the extent of our TV viewing. Since I don’t watch the commercials I guess I have no standing to complain, but […]