Jon Stewart took a break from politics to dish out a little media criticism tonight aimed squarely at CNN. The network has undergone a couple of changes recently, and the end result has been nothing if not.. unique. Stewart mocked the network’s seemingly new approach to news, its attempt to explain complex policy issues to… Read more »
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Bernanke’s Defense of Fed Policies Neither Comforting nor Convincing
Newscom Do the risks from the Federal Reserve’s trillion-dollar annual stimulus program justify the rewards? That was the central question at Tuesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing featuring Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. Bernanke worked hard to defend the Fed’s quantitative easing policy, but he appears to oversell the rewards by a mile and understate the risks… Read more »
Of Blazing Saddles and platinum coins: Why minting a $1 trillion one is neither smart nor necessary
By now I’m sure you’ve probably heard more than you want to know about the platinum coin—although if you like learning fancy new words, you have to admit, “seignorage” is a pretty cool one. But I want to take a few minutes to explain why I think minting a $ 1 trillion quarter and then… Read more »
Neither Obama nor Romney will turn America into a bleak hellscape
We’re at the end of a long and bitter election, and so perhaps it’s worth taking a deep breath and admitting something that typically doesn’t get said until one candidate or the other delivers his concession speech: America will survive either way. Which isn’t to say the policy differences between the candidates aren’t real, and… Read more »