Yesterday I noted one giant error in the opening of Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone piece on the Obama economic team, but demurred from cataloguing the rest of the piece on the grounds that it is “truly too convoluted and half-baked…

Today, economist James Hamilton came out in favor of the BCS over a playoff system for college football. As far as I know, that makes two of us. As is his wont, Hamilton approached the question quantitatively: …if you do…

Larry Summers will always be a whipping boy for the left. I can only imagine that Obama’s appointment of Summers to the National Economic Council still rankles those who had hoped on the campaign trail for a less centrist Obama…

I’ve argued before that Eliot Spitzer needs to spend a lot more time gnashing his teeth in the outer darkness before he returns to public life. But now that the NY Post reports that he is considering a run for…

In the introduction to what is, on many levels, one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve ever encountered, Matt Taibbi observes, Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the…

Nevada Republican Senate hopeful Sue Lowden hit incumbent Majority Leader Harry Reid hard on health care reform this morning at an American Spectator press breakfast. Lowden knocked Reid’s Senate draft bill, predicting that the attempted health care reform will be…

Felix Salmon notes an unseemly epilogue to the story of Neel Kashkari, the Hank Paulson-picked TARP supervisor dubbed “The $700 Billion Man” for his oversight of the bailout funds prior to his spectacular DC burnout. Having spent months recuperating from…

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has struck a major blow for women’s rights, reports the Boston Globe, by backing out of a scheduled speech at Boston’s men-only Glover Club. Patrick’s office explained his cancellation in a brief statement Sunday, blaming the…

In response to my defense against his attack on a blog post I wrote concerning the recent CBO analysis of jobs created by the stimulus, Menzie Chinn has commented on his blog: Regarding your over-arching critique of the CBO approach,…

Last week I suggested that the kinds of things Paul Krugman has been writing about the debt could not have been the work of someone who has read Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s new book, This Time Is Different: Eight…