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Alex Copulsky

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Department of Horrifically Nerdy

I just bookmarked the new blog for the Office of Management and Budget.  And you should too.  Peter Orszag, the new director, is going...

A Nation of Santellis? Please.

Have you seen the Santelli clip?  Watch it.  Now.  I'll wait. Yes, that is a CNBC reporter channeling the rage of the common volk.  Raging...

History Lesson

Ever heard of the Pecora Commission?  It was a Congressional investigation into the banking practices of the twenties, set up in 1932 at the...

Electoral Calculus

So there's been some electorally-focused grandstanding by GOP governors over the stimulus package.  Unsurprisingly, most of them are not turning down billions of dollars...

Changing Times

So UBS, the Swiss bank, has admitted to participating in massive, massive fraud, and using its US banking division as basically a tax-evasion service...

They Just Need One More Hit…

The big auto companies are back for more money. Color me shocked.  Really, just stunned in surprise. It seems as though the only rationale...

Gettin' Real About Realism

Will has an interesting post below about realism/constructivism, which I'd take issue with on one important part.  Namely, both suffer from an unrealistically statist...

Libertarians are fun.

http://www.youtube.com/v/dEDIyztZGBA&hl=en&fs=1 Also, w/r/t Sam's post on how few Americans believe in evolution, I'd suggest there's no way to ask an un-loaded question about evolution.  Gallup...

Big Thought

As someone who studies history, one of the persistent historical puzzles is why America never developed a sizeable left.  By "left" I don't mean...

FinancialStability.gov

  Go ahead, click on it.  Reassuring, am I right?