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On Krugman and Unemployment Compensation

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Paul Krugman is currently claiming that Republicans are wrong about the effect of unemployment insurance on the rate of employment, namely that extending unemployment compensation increases the unemployment rate.
This goes counter to both common sense and what Krugman himself (along with his wife, also an economist) wrote in his textbook, Macroeconomics:
Public policy designed to help [...]

Pants on fire!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Barack Obama:
“One of the things that I have learned in Washington is you have to repeat yourself a lot because unfortunately it doesn’t penetrate.”
William James (1842-1910) The father of modern Psychology
“There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”

On the Ground

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Chicago Bear Devin Hester Pants’d by Philadelphia Eagles cornerback

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Pants Related Links for 11/23/09

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Cops: Man had CDs in the front of pants, heroin in the back
SALEM, N.H. – A man who police say walked out of a K-Mart with 25-30 CDs stuffed down the front of his pants was also in possession of heroin at the time of his arrest on Saturday night.
Planet 51: Welcome to the planet [...]

Pants related links for 4/26/07

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

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Pants Related Links for 5/20/07

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

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Pants related links for 2/18/07

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

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Chronic Commenter

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

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Pants related links for 2/28/07

Monday, January 1st, 2007

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