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Daily Archives: April 26th, 2013

Friday Night Bonus Video

Friday, April 26, 2013

Stephen Colbert destroys Reinhart and Rogoff, in two parts: Part Two: What a strange world we live in. The comedians are the only ones who tell us the truth. If you’ve been following this controversy you may know that the New York Times has given the duo two columns today in which to defend themselves […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, April 26, 2013

I don’t live in Boston, but I’ve been a Sox fan all my life, so I’ve certainly had my heart broken there a lot and I feel like in some small way that it’s my fuckin’ city too. So, in case you haven’t seen them, here’s the folks in Boston affirming their resilience. I mean […]

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An economic theory, revisited

Friday, April 26, 2013

Paul Krugman grapples with the baffling fact that austerity continues its grip on policy when it has been proven ineffective time and again: Part of the answer surely lies in the widespread desire to see economics as a morality play, to make it a tale of excess and its consequences. We lived beyond our means, […]

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This is getting tiresome

Friday, April 26, 2013

There are times when a sane person can reach only one sensible conclusion about the Democratic members of the House and Senate: They are engaged in a silent conspiracy to put the Republicans in power. True, the Republicans make it hard for them, but the Democrats soldier on. Latest case in point, as many others […]

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