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Entries from July 2011

Krugman (and Pelosi) Quote of the Day

July 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

This one goes back to 2009. No matter what you think of the Tea Party, I think it’s safe to say the professor provides us with a complete and total misreading of the political landscape. Emphasis mine: Last but not least: it turns out that the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public […]

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Want Crippling State Deficits? Try Electing “Smart” Legislators

July 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Economics

UPDATE 8/8/2011: Craig Newmark ran all 50 states and was kind enough to send me the results. Bottom line is a flimsy correlation 0.211, which is short of statistical significance. We also get an R-squared figure of .045 which is “not too impressive.” While it ‘aint zero, I gotta come up with something better than […]

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