Posts Tagged ‘Brad DeLong’

Suskind on Obama via DeLong

Brad DeLong posted these very interesting excerpts from Ron Suskind’s new book Confidence Men on his blog: Maybe this is part of the “women problem” Maureen Dowd mentions in her recent column. But I thought that column was pretty fluffy, battle-of-the-sexes stuff, whereas this Suskind passage is great. Who would have thought that lightbulb would ...Read more.

Unemployment, Austerity, Stimulus

[N.B.:  First three items by our fabulous summer intern Elizabeth Murphy, who also chose this post's Possibly Irrelevant Image. Sorry for the delay posting these!] (1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the July unemployment numbers last Friday (Aug.6) and they do not look pretty. Unemployment remains exactly where it was at the end of ...Read more.

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