Politics Archives

2009/03/30

Great Moments in Political Rhetoric: Hannan vs Brown

2009/02/16

The Kanjorski Meme, Mark II

2009/02/12

The Tragedy of Political Reality

2009/02/11

Kanjorski and the Money Market Funds: The Facts

2009/02/10

The Kanjorski Meme

2009/02/06

Lobbying Datapoint of the Day

2009/02/05

Summers vs Volcker

2009/01/23

Geithner on China's Currency Manipulation

2009/01/22

Geithner's Written Responses to the Senate Finance Committee

2009/01/21

Does Geithner Know What He's Going To Do?

2009/01/16

More Arguments for Bank Nationalization

2009/01/15

Will Bush Mention the Economy?

2009/01/14

Geithner, Taxed

2009/01/09

Warren vs Treasury, Cont.

2009/01/08

Obama's Big Speech

2008/12/31

The Invisible Stimulus

2008/12/30

Who Killed Frannie?

2008/12/23

Bailouts: The Darling Approach

2008/12/22

The White House vs the NYT, Economic Meltdown Edition

2008/12/17

When Monetary Policy Is Fiscal Policy

2008/12/12

How TARP Funds will be Released

Free Marketeers for Wage and Price Controls

2008/12/11

This is Not Good

Warren vs Treasury

2008/12/10

The Goldman Munipal Conflict Non-Story Refuses to Die

2008/12/09

Civil Society: Falling Apart

2008/12/02

Great Moments in Politics, California Edition

2008/11/30

Geithner isn't Rubin

2008/11/26

Is Volcker the Man for This Job?

2008/11/25

The Difference Between Rubin and Paulson

Wall Street CEOs vs Geithner

2008/11/24

Obama's Real Economic Team

2008/11/22

Obama's Economic Team

2008/11/21

Geithner!

2008/11/20

The Dangers of Looking to Washington for Help

2008/11/19

Yet More Paulson Revisionism

2008/11/18

Hank Paulson, Serial Revisionist

2008/11/13

Bush's Peculiar Wall Street Speech

2008/11/12

How Banks Need to Mollify the Public Sector

Treasury Enters its Lame Duck Phase

2008/11/10

Against Summers

2008/11/06

Treasury Secretary Speculation Heats Up

2008/11/05

Treasury Secretary Brackets

2008/10/24

NYC's Fiscal Crisis

2008/10/23

Hank Paulson, Revisionist

2008/10/15

The Exercise of Raw Power

2008/10/13

CNBC's Gasparino Problem

2008/10/12

Hank Paulson, Drowning Scorpion

2008/10/07

Great Moments in Punditry, Kudlow Edition

2008/10/01

Don't Get Sanguine About This Bill

2008/09/30

The Quantum Physics of the Bailout

How Bad Could Things Get?

2008/09/29

Looking for Hope

Oh Shit

2008/09/26

McCain's Economics

Flow Chart of the Day

Bailout Talks Lose Sight of Cost Question

How to Get the House Republicans On Board

What Was Paulson Begging For?

When it Rains, it Pours

2008/09/25

The Bailout Arrives

2008/09/24

Didn't Panic

Don't Panic

The Rehabilitation of Christopher Dodd

2008/09/23

Does Paulson's Lie Matter?

Can Hank Paulson Lead?

2008/09/22

The Trillion-Dollar Question

2008/09/20

Hank Paulson, Buy-Sider

2008/09/15

McCain vs Obama: The Lehman Responses

2008/09/11

Larry Summers, Politician

2008/08/29

$250,000 per Year Counts as Rich

2008/08/20

Barack Obama, Economic Policy Wonk

2008/08/15

Missed Connections, UN-Russia Edition

GDP Statistics and the 2008 Election

2008/08/06

Chart of the Day: The InTrade Electoral Map

2008/08/04

How Risky is Venezuela's Bank Nationalization?

2008/07/17

Angelo Mozilo's VIPs

2008/07/14

Plan B: Nationalization

2008/07/13

Parsing Paulson: The Fannie and Freddie Bailout

2008/07/10

Bloomberg Buying Bloomberg?

2008/07/08

The Economic Policy of John McCain

2008/07/07

The Worst Beneficiaries of a Billion-Dollar Will

2008/06/23

John McCain's Credit Card Problems

2008/06/19

Joe Lieberman's Dangerous Blame Game

2008/06/14

Getting VIP Treatment

The Economics and Politics of Trade

2008/06/13

Countrywide VIPs: In the Senate and Beyond

2008/06/11

Is Chris Hohn a Threat to US National Security?

2008/06/10

Is a Windfall Tax a Populist Pander?

2008/06/05

Left-Wing Democracy in Action, Ecuador Edition

2008/05/18

Gesture Politics Done Right

2008/05/07

When States Pass Laws the Banks Don't Like

2008/05/06

Clinton vs the Economists

2008/05/05

Can Cities Transcend National Politics?

2008/05/01

Why Local Government is Unrepresentative and Uncreative

2008/04/29

Political Hacks: The Backlash

2008/04/23

How Economic Illiteracy Could Doom Gordon Brown

2008/04/14

Recession: What can the President do?

2008/04/03

How the Housing Bill Could Help New York City

2008/03/20

The Political Independence of the Fed

2008/03/17

Is the Bear Collapse Good for Clinton?

2008/03/12

Cramer on Spitzer

Spitzer: The Monoline Angle

2008/03/10

Spitzer's Legacy on Wall Street

2008/02/26

In Defense of the Patriot Employer Act

2008/02/13

Barack Obama Datapoint of the Day

Evan Bayh is Worried by Sovereign Wealth Funds

2008/02/04

Obama vs Clinton: The International Perspective

2008/01/31

When Sovereign Wealth Funds Invest for Political Reasons

What the Next President Needs to Know About the Economy

2008/01/30

The Credit Crunch and US Politics

2008/01/21

The Politics of Equity Capital Inflows

2008/01/10

It's OK for Tony Blair to Cash Out

2008/01/09

Can Politicians Boost Stock Prices?

2008/01/08

Gordon Brown and the Independence of the Bank of England

In Praise of a Pessimistic President

2007/12/19

Can a President Delegate the Economics Stuff?

2007/12/17

How Far Apart are Edwards and Obama?

2007/12/10

Barney Frank's Opposition: It's Not Hank Paulson

2007/12/06

The Subprime Plan: Now, It's Political

2007/12/04

Chris Dodd Has Lost His Mind

2007/11/28

And You May Find Yourself in a Beautiful House...

2007/10/24

The Electability of Al Gore

2007/10/12

US Inequality Hits New Record Highs

2007/10/08

Numeracy in the White House

2007/09/19

Cheney Responds to Greenspan

2007/08/31

Bush's Mainly Cosmetic Homeowner Rescue Proposals

2007/08/30

The WSJ's Greg Ip Defends Bernanke Against Martin Wolf

How Greenspan Diminished the Fed

2007/08/29

Martin Wolf Takes Bernanke to the Woodshed

2007/08/28

Do We Need to Bail Out Homeowners? (Nouriel Roubini Edition)

2007/08/27

Larry Summers' Unanswered Questions

2007/08/23

Paulson Hoist on His Own Petard (Yuan Version)

2007/08/22

Bush's FHA Band-Aid

2007/08/21

Has Smoke and Mirrors Worked?

2007/08/09

Abolish Mortgage-Interest Tax Deduction, But Not Now

2007/08/07

How Politicians Can Help Fix the Mortgage Mess

2007/07/26

The Futility of Talking Growth

2007/07/10

Anti-Counterfeiting Bill Doing Well in Washington

2007/06/28

Alternatives to Globalization

2007/06/27

Lloyd Blankfein, Man of the People

2007/06/15

Garrard: The Clinton Connection

2007/05/30

Dsquared on Political Event Swaps

2007/05/29

It's Time for Political Event Swaps

2007/05/17

When Politicians Go Private

2007/05/08

Bloomberg vs Spitzer?

2005/03/19

Wolfowitz

2005/03/07

Calipari and rendition

2004/08/28

Scenes from the protests

2004/06/28

Solar energy in California

2004/03/06

Kerry's flip-flops

2003/12/18

Distributed decision-making

2003/12/07

"War": What is it good for?

2003/12/02

Uninspiring shortlists

2003/11/17

Jeff Jarvis is pro-American

2003/10/08

Schwarzenegger wins

2003/07/31

Coming to America

2003/06/20

The economic policy of John Edwards

2003/05/28

Grade retention

2003/05/14

New York as dysfunctional Latin American nation

2003/04/30

Empire

2003/03/06

Bush's press conference

2003/01/29

Bush on Iraq

2003/01/28

Zakaria on Iraq

2003/01/27

Powell on Iraq

2003/01/23

Wolfowitz on Iraq

2003/01/13

Why Bush should ignore the stock market

2002/12/15

The soft racism of high expectations

2002/11/06

Why the Republicans won the election

2002/10/30

50-50 nations

2002/10/11

Rosenbaum, Hitchens and the Left

2002/09/25

Dick Armey, intellectuals, and the Jews

2002/09/05

Michael Bloomberg

2002/09/02

Kagan's Power and Weakness

2002/07/29

Number portability: The craven FCC caves in

2002/07/18

Why the Department of Homeland Security is a Really Bad Idea

2002/06/27

Globalization and its Discontents

2001/04/22

Sleaze in the UK and USA

2000/03/09

Notes on campaign finance

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