A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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Riddle: When is profligate government spending not a crime against the American public?
Answer: When it's done in a GOP freshman's district.
Ron Nixon of The New York Times catches some alleged spending-hawks in a fine bit of hypocrisy, trying to ...
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Team Boehner's Hypocrisy
The Speaker’s response epitomized a disease floating mostly...
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Lots of crosscurrents to start the week. First, President Obama is on the war path against “fat-cat” banksters. No doubt he senses the widespread political outrage on this issue, so it would be bizarre indeed if this is just more hypocrisy and posturing. However, as I wrote Sunday, the Pig Men have already won...
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Bloomberg did a hit piece on Roubini today by one Whitney Kisling. The article also praised Laszlo Birinyi for getting the 1990s right, and quoted one money manager as saying we should only listen to money managers, and not analysts. As if those money managers aren’t publicly talking their book, using the media as...
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The New Voodoo
Krugman's latest... Hypocrisy never goes out of style, but, even so, 2010 was something special. For it was the year of budget doubletalk — the year of arsonists posing as firemen, of people railing against deficits while doing everything they ...
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