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Week Ending December 7th – Cliff Edition

This week we learned that nothing matters. Nothing. Not unless it’s about the Fiscal Cliff. Then it matters. Really, really matters. Why? Because serious people everywhere say so. And, as we all know or ought to know, serious people everywhere know what they’re talking about. That the entire discussion is riven through with contradictions, errors, […]

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Employment Numbers: Good or Bad?

Don’t you hate it when the best answer to that question is a variant of: “well, it depends”? But it does. It depends on whether you read the household survey first or the establishment survey. The household survey was taken a week earlier and thus captures the blip caused by hurricane Sandy. The good news […]

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Trench Warfare, Or Something

The word monotony speaks to dullness, but it does fit the modern Republican party rather well. It is anything but dull. Were the Republicans developing military strategy they would have a constant response to any situation: What should we do about the enemy troops storming down the hill? Dig trenches! What about those grenades they’re […]

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