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July 2010

July 07, 2010

The Indignant Household Budget

One of the more popular voluntary delusions of the IndigNation has to do with the...

July 02, 2010

Sallie may rip you off

Student loan giant Sallie Mae has announced it's moving its headquarters to Delaware.This is very...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

Ask the Economist

DEAR ECONOMIST: Due to a recent series of events, my wife and I have been...

June 28, 2010

Rendering unto Krugman

In a couple of recent posts (here and here), Brad DeLong responds to the accusation...

May 2010

May 31, 2010

You need a telephone to get a job

Atrios points to this response from the Center for Economic and Policy Research to Robert...

May 20, 2010

Small wonder

In an hour or so I will cross the border from Pennsylvania into the strange,...

March 2010

March 17, 2010

Pass. The. Damn. Bill.

If you're in favor of expanding access to health care to 30 million people now...

March 10, 2010

Family Feud politics

One reason for the current non-debate over health care reform is that the Republicans and...

February 2010

February 05, 2010

Some persons are more equal than others

The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are persons and that money is speech and...

January 2010

January 24, 2010

I think maybe part of the reason you’re so angry is you keep demanding that you get screwed and then, not surprisingly, you keep getting screwed

Hey you. You there in the Glenn Beck T-shirt headed off to the Tea Party...

January 21, 2010

Keep Big Government away from my defective strollers

Not content with trying to tell private health insurance companies what they can and can't...

September 2009

September 17, 2009

Our trespasses

Today's paper has a good piece from reporters Hiran Ratnayake and Ginger Gibson -- "Immigrants...

September 07, 2009

Same to you, buddy

Wal-mart is now advertising a new "low" rate for cashing checks of only $3. Any...

August 2009

August 10, 2009

An argument

A: Sarah Palin is lying about health care reform. B: Whoa, hold on there. That's...

August 04, 2009

Still not rock bottom

The smug-junkies are lining up for the latest designer drug to hit the streets, a...

July 2009

July 23, 2009

Health care reform

The last few moments of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs present an astonishing twist and...

May 2009

May 20, 2009

Hell and the Credit-Card Lobby

I've mentioned before that I don't believe in the idea of "Hell" as a place...

April 2009

April 14, 2009

Post-apocalyptic anarchy day

The anti-tax Tax Foundation gets a lot of attention each year when it announces its...

March 2009

March 23, 2009

None of your business (cont'd.)

Imagine a newspaper with no "Business" section. Where the Business section is now, there is,...

February 2009

February 27, 2009

The undeserving poor

Following up on Rick Santelli's concern that any effort to aide aid families facing foreclosure...

February 24, 2009

The workers in the vineyard

For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the...

February 09, 2009

50 states

On the subject of President Obama's economic recovery plan, I side with the Keynesians who...

February 04, 2009

Some folks' world

Here's a sampling of recent headlines from around North America:"Perris wants to know why rents...

January 2009

January 08, 2009

Uncle Sam

To be fair, illustrating the personal finance page is a difficult and thankless job. Being...

December 2008

December 26, 2008

Home for the holidays

Arianna B. sent along these glad tidings from Ottawa:Residents of a trailer park in Ottawa's...

November 2008

November 19, 2008

Mass layoffs are a sin

Thanks for the feedback on the previous post. My guess is that once the situation...

November 18, 2008

A union of shareholders

I'm asking for the assistance and indulgence of the hive-mind of the blogosphere here. I'm...

November 16, 2008

How I beat the market

For my first job out of college, I was hired as a fund manager.Sort of....

September 2008

September 24, 2008

How not to apply for a grant

I'm not usually in a position to say that I have more experience, knowledge and...

September 23, 2008

Panic, therefore, panic!

When in the course of human events a purportedly democratic official demands that the people...

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