Oh. Look. James Pethokoukis is making shit up again. Why people with track records like this are given any attention is beyond me.
Hard Times
I guess the NY Times has finally run out of gangster bankster sob stories and now is profiling the financial woes of actual gangsters: This is Joe DeFede, a retired New York gangster who oversaw the rackets in the city’s garment district in the 1990s, a perch that provided him with a Cadillac, a driver, …
Extending a Hand to Daniel Larison
Larison reads the latest nonsense from James Pethokoukis, and remarks: I’m not sure if Pethokoukis is kidding, but it seems as if he really doesn’t understand anything Stewart was saying on the show. Daniel- James isn’t kidding, and there is a solid chance he didn’t understand one thing during the entire Cramer/Stewart interview. I know …
Also, I Hear Tax Cuts Cure AIDS
It just never stops. James Pethokoukis, who spent the fall telling us that the market was falling due to the impending Obama election (AKA the Goldberg Theorem), writes about the next stimulus package (since the current bill, which has not even been signed yet, is going to fail). Not surprising, he has some ideas as …
The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations
Yesterday, Ben Smith noted that Citizen Journalism had failed to meet expectations, and I would tend to agree overall- blogs are not replacing newspapers or MSM news organizations anytime soon. On the other hand, blogs have been quite good at pointing out first-class wankery. As an example, this from James Pethokoukis: Are investor concerns about …
It’s Your Credibility, Stupid
Ross Douthat: For a week or so now, I’ve been listening to smart conservatives suggest that Obama’s “spreading the wealth” remark might really, really hurt him – “talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party, that it is infested with socialists,” writes James Pethokoukis – and I have a question: Hasn’t Obama …
A specter is haunting the United States — the specter of oligarchy
There has been a lot of discussion of Thomas Piketty’s new book Capital in the 21st Century, which argues that: The ratio of wealth to income is rising in all developed countries. Absent extraordinary interventions, we should expect that trend to continue. If it continues, the future will look like the 19th century, where economic …
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