The Problem - II
Calculated Risk adds the the clearest picture of
the housing tailspin.
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The Problem - I
Calculated Risk has the clearest picture of
the problem we face.
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Special Topic 8/4/10
This week, the Roundtable will feature a special listing for reaction to the
payroll employment figures
from ADP on Wednesday and the BLS on Friday.
ADP: +42,000
BLS: -131,000/+71,000
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Special Topics 6/28/10
This week, the Roundtable will feature special listings for reaction to Wednesday's
CBO budget projections and the
payroll employment figures
from ADP on Wednesday and the BLS on Friday.
ADP: +13,000
BLS: -125,000/+83,000
CBO: Take your pick.
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Current Economic Conditions 6/5/10
James Hamilton summarizes the situation.
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July 1, 2010, 8:45 am, 726201
At the risk of giving Richard Dawkins a heart attack, there’s one man Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, really ought to meet, and he’s Chuck Colson. The former Nixon advisor, who went to jail for his involvment in the Watergate scandal, has spent decades promoting evangelical Christianity to American prisoners. ...
June 30, 2010, 10:45 am, 725550
Suddenly I’ve become a poster boy for the Republican Right. It started when Fox News linked to a blog I’d written suggesting, not terribly seriously, that Brits ought to boycott America in retaliation against Barack Obama’s refusal to support us in the Falklands.
Now thousands of emails are being forwarded around the US ...
June 29, 2010, 12:45 pm, 724951
The BBC has taken a minority interest that’s seen as seen as elitist and boring and turned into one of the most gripping programmes on television.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne is a prime-time show about opera. Malone, an energy-filled, dapper 35 year-old ...
June 28, 2010, 4:45 am, 724066
The Left did a lot of sniggering one day in August 2008. That was when Policy Exchange launched a report saying that regional development policy had failed and calling for unemployed Scousers to move down south to successful cities, such as Oxford and Cambridge.
The Labour Party and at the BBC ...
June 4, 2010, 2:45 pm, 712401
I dare say that you’ve never heard of Timothy Kirkhope MEP. He has the presence of a paperclip – but he is actually quite important. As the effective leader of Conservative Party in Europe, he ought to be leading the fight to sack thousands of Brussels bureaucrats, to abolish ...
June 2, 2010, 4:45 am, 710734
If there’s one thing that the Department for International Development should scrap immediately, it’s a magazine called “Developments”. This has been costing taxpayers £400,000 a year and is distributed free of charge – well, no one in their right mind would pay for it. It reads like a magazine in ...
June 1, 2010, 6:45 am, 710089
If there’s one thing that the Department for International Development should scrap immediately, it’s a magazine called “Developments”. This has been costing taxpayers £400,000 a year and is distributed free of charge – well, no one in their right mind would pay for it. It reads like a magazine in ...
May 26, 2010, 2:45 pm, 707828
No, I haven’t gone completely mad. Nor am I suggesting this as some Right-wing plot to lumber Labour with an electorial liability. After all, a PoliticsHome poll says that the public backs her bid for leadership and, even though some votes from Tories and Lib Dems could have been disingenous, ...
May 25, 2010, 8:45 am, 706889
There’s no let-up on bad spending ideas coming from the Tory-run Department for International Development (DFID). It is going to spend £2.95 million to give Uganda 45 million condoms, along with some implantable and oral contraceptives. “Who could be against that?”, the sandal-wearing do-gooders at DFID might be wondering. Well ...
May 24, 2010, 8:45 am, 706211
As a special treat one Christmas, Andrew Mitchell invited me, and a few others who’d been helpful to him, for drinks. As one of his assistants started pouring the champagne, Mitchell – in his typically Alan B’Stard way – interjected and instructed her to pour us only half a glass. ...
