Topic: Matthew Yglesias
The headline at WaPo was upbeat: "U.S. economy in fourth quarter 2011 grew at fastest pace in 1.5 years." But the new economic growth data released...
A few final items for the day, if you please:. . * As many of you probably noticed, the New York Times published another large chunk of reportage...
MATTHEW YGLESIAS, writing at Slate, is perplexed by Barack Obama's plan to "boost the economy by hindering trade". He argues that in his...
Tweet. Matt Yglesias directs me this morning to a column by Peter Orszag promoting the cause of greater price transparency in the healthcare arena...
The Wall Street Journal points out that "hardback high-school textbooks cost an average of about $105, and a freshman might need five of them...
I read something today that I wish I had written. So I am going to cross post it. This post comes from Noah Millman and it is about the lame...
Tweet. . . As Matt Yglesias says, the latest Pew survey suggests that America is increasingly "a nation of hardened class warriors." Even among...
Tweet. Matt Yglesias, who's unhappy with our "unfortunate bias against the food service industry," says that we make too much fuss over the...
Tweet. Aaron Carroll thinks that retail health clinics fill a useful niche. "There are times when you need to see a health care professional early...
Tweet. Now that Bloomberg has peeled another layer off the Federal Reserve onion, we know a bit more about just how much money they spent rescuing...
