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Forestalling future inflation is not just a matter of investment vs. consumption; smart policies to ease recovery bottlenecks (especially oil shocks), improve competitiveness, and improve the efficiency of health care are also important.
Archive for June, 2009
June 12th, 2009
Category: Macroeconomic Policy, Policy briefs
How to be a progressive and worry about inflation at the same time.
June 11th, 2009
Category: Iran
If Ahmad-nejad loses, so do the war-hawks. And they’re hating it, not least because a victory for the relative moderate would vindicate the Obama strategy.
June 10th, 2009
Category: Human rights, Immigration
Palau has agreed to take in the Uighurs — and has demonstrated just about every other nation’s hypocrisy and cowardice.
June 10th, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control, Watching Conservatives
Like the killer of George Tiller, the guy who murdered a guard at the Holocaust Museum was a known right-wing whacko with a criminal history.
June 9th, 2009
Category: Health Care
If a public plan falls victim to adverse selection, that would reduce the claims paid by private insurers.
June 9th, 2009
Category: Abortion, Terrorism and its control
George Tiller’s clinic will remain closed permanently. The closest abortion services to Wichita are now three hours away: not late-term abortion services, *any* abortion services.
What are we going to do about it?
June 8th, 2009
Category: Tanakh notes
The first Creation myth in Genesis does not start from nothing: Elohim, the (formless) earth, “the waters,” “the deep,” and “the darkness,” and the divine spirit or breath or wind all pre-exist the creative activity described in the text.
June 7th, 2009
Category: Literature
Just see it.
I did, this afternoon, and my eyes tear up whenever I’ve thought about it since: that is, often. This isn’t movie-making; this is myth-making.