Vance’s shift to Vance 4.0, offering what he calls “common-sense” economic policies and dodging and weaving to avoid saying much of anything on anything, especially whether Trump won or lost in 2020—”the media is obsessed with… the election of four years ago… I'm focused on the election of 33... 1/
Four key moments in the Vice Presidential debate that I think may well have legs—and none of them are favorable to JD Vance. Plus observations that I think are useful, which almost none of the...
By almost every measure the Biden-Harris administration has the best economic record going back many decades, but the media insist that things are bad -- often because they seriously misrepresent reality. Here are my 6 favorites cepr.net/my-six-favor...
We know that most people say that they think the economy has performed poorly under the Biden-Harris administration. However, we also know that by standard economic measures the administration has bee...
The Washington Post is very concerned about the budget deficit, and very upset that no one else seems to be, cepr.net/the-washingt...
The Washington Post gave us one of its standard deficit scold pieces yesterday. As we know, the Washington Post editorial board is absolutely the most serious of the “very serious people.” They are al...
The misery index under Biden-Harris is near six decade low cepr.net/the-biden-ha...
In 1980 Ronald Reagan brought the term “misery index” into political debates. The concept is simple, it’s the sum of the unemployment rate and inflation rate over the last year. It’s not obvious that ...
"If you need us to pretend you are not creating the hurt you are creating in order for you to continue to be our customer, I’m sad to say you might be happier elsewhere." Seriously, read this.
This is like nothing I’ve ever seen on a business website: www.penzeys.com/shop/about-r...
About Republicans -- As we’ve now said on our first-ever About Us page on our website, there’s something unique about humankind’s relationship with spices that time and again have caused spices to be...
Don’t let the Times/Siena poll drive you crazy. It’s just one poll, and we live in a chaotic and unpredictable universe. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-to-kee...
Serenity now!
...the macroeconomic sitch; Keynes on why the business cycle is cyclical; JD Vance’s intro to the “Project 2025” book; & weekly briefly noted for 2024-08 16 Fr… ==== WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-08-23 Fr My weekly read-around... < braddelong.substack.com/p/weekly-bri... > 2024-08-23 Fr 2/END
My weekly read-around...
The disjunction between economic performance under democratic & republican presidents; origins of the Federal Reserve as we know it; post-liberalism critiqued; SubStack notes; very briefly noted; & SubStack posts: truth-telling about Trump tariff & migration policy too hot for Jackson Hole... 1/
My weekly read-around...
Trump tariffs and mass deportation, taken together, would be the largest adverse supply shock ever inflicted on the American economy. They would in all likelihood generate a combination of inflation and depression America has never before seen. Our macroeconomic troubles would dwarf anything... 1/
…even though Adam Posen wishes otherwise. Economic—like geophysical, biological, archeological, and many other sciences—truth-telling has become a partisan political act in America...