The Kroog is right (as usual) on the sheer bitter punitive structure of the EU/Greek deal: it’s a “deal” the same way that signing away your house, car and kids while standing on a trap door over an active volcano is a “deal”. Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see …
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Open Thread: Nutmeggers
This is no doubt gonna piss off both the Yankee traders and the Dutch, but it’s a historically clever analogy. Josh Barro, in the NYTimes, on “The Problem With a Euro Fix: What’s in It for the Dutch?“: Economists agree: If the eurozone does not break up, it will have to move closer together. They’re …
Open Thread: TBH, I’d Charge Him At Least Twice That Much…
Jeb Bush's firm paid wife $220,000 but duties unclear other than being a "true partner in work and life.” http://t.co/5MNpeER74x — Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) July 3, 2015 … and then I’d do my (considerable) best to undercut him at every opportunity. Looking forward (not) to seeing how the GooGoos who shook their fingers at Hillary …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread
I'm told questioning this is divisive. By people who work for the CEOs. https://t.co/iomDtZajzp — Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 1, 2015 CEO pay has grown 90 times faster than typical worker pay since 1978. http://t.co/e73WugJvNC pic.twitter.com/gWIRWt4G9y — Economic Policy Inst (@EconomicPolicy) July 1, 2015 Meanwhile, somebody leaked to Politico, presumably with malice aforethought: … POLITICO …
Late Night Off-Peak Open Thread: ‘Big Chicken’ Christie Jumps on the Klown Kar
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) Jeb Lund, at the Guardian: Chris Christie is now officially running for president – and what makes Chris Christie special is that he is running because he is running, and because what are you going to do about it? The animating purpose of Christie’s entire career is one regionally-accented hostile tautology: …
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Open Thread: Little Prince Paul Seeks Support From Fellow Free-Thinkers
Rand Paul takes a well-deserved rest from pretending he's not a Confederate http://t.co/lBVDTCqvpG — Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) June 30, 2015 Cliven Bundy attending @RandPaul rally in Mesquite. After photo was taken Paul met privately with Bundy.#lvrj pic.twitter.com/bwIzhthec7 — Jeff scheid (@Jlscheid) June 30, 2015 Cliven Bundy: I met privately with Rand Paul for 45 minutes …
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Jeb Bush, “Dogged”
(Joel Pett via GoComics.com) . In the Washington Post, Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Tom Hamburger, “Jeb Bush dogged by decades of questions about business deals“: …. Today, as he works toward his run at the White House, Bush touts his business experience as a strength that gives him the skills and savvy to serve as …