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July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522236

The investment banks want the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort support without wanting its regulatory oversight. Sorry guys, it doesn't work that way.

Emanuel Derman, via James Wilmott:

Emanuel Derman's Blog: Are you bicestrian? You don't look bicestrian.: "So many riders in the Tour de France ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522240

Paul Krugman wonders:

Secrets of the WSJ: This morning’s Wall Street Journal opinion section contains a lot of what one expects to see. There’s an opinion piece making a big fuss over the fake scandal at the EPA. There’s an editorial claiming that the latest job figures ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522239

In which Barry Ritholtz encounters the unreliable Stan Liebowitz saying very strange and very false things about the mortgage market:

Zero Down Is a Foreclosure Factor: There is a kind of weird OpEd in today’s WSJ by Stan Liebowitz. The professor makes the incredible discovery that zero ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522237

Via Talking Points Memo Sarah Palin:

Full Text Of Palin's Resignation Speech | LiveWire: Hi Alaska, I appreciate speaking directly TO you, the people I serve, as your Governor. People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522238

In email, lurkers are questioning my claim that:

Forecasting the Obama Economy: ...what happened to the Mankiw CEA over the winter of 2003-2004, when high politics appears to have reached down into the forecast, changed the table for payroll employment (and only payroll ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522235

Scott Eric Kaufman, last seen in the Washington Post "claiming" to have a Ph.D. in English, tears Brent Bozell into shreds and gobbets, and then eats the gobbets.

SEK:

Sorry. SEK:

And the Award for Missing the Point goes to...: ...Brent ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522234

Sarah Palin:

Sarah Palin Announces Resignation as Governor, Part 1; Sarah Palin Announces Resignation as Governor, Part 2.

"It was four yeses, and one 'hell yes!'"

An enormous amount of bulls--- here.

But this sounded genuine:

In fact, this decision ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522232

Thomas Jefferson's handwriting:


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522231

From Bully:

Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: Flag Day Bonus: Ben Franklin...Plagiarist!: On this patriotic holiday, so you think you know the origin and history of our proud American star-spangled banner? Well, think again, bub! All that the teachers taught you weren't cool! That story about ...


July 4, 2009, 8:18 pm, 522233

July 4, 2009, 4:18 pm, 522215

Roger Simon writes, provocatively:

I don't think I've ever seen my country so divided and depressed on the Fourth of July in my lifetime....The current situation is grim.

Obama is already over. In six short months the now-spattered bumper stickers with "Hope and Change" seem like pathetic remnants from the days ...


July 4, 2009, 4:18 pm, 522214

From Bully:

Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: Flag Day Bonus: Ben Franklin...Plagiarist!: On this patriotic holiday, so you think you know the origin and history of our proud American star-spangled banner? Well, think again, bub! All that the teachers taught you weren't cool! That story about ...


July 4, 2009, 2:18 pm, 522198
THE SEQUELS ARE RARELY AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL.... The lasting impact of the "Tea Parties" in April has been minimal. A few months later, it's still not clear what the point was, or what organizers hoped to accomplish. In...


July 4, 2009, 2:18 pm, 522197
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY.... The president's weekly multimedia addresses aren't usually worth noting, but in light of the holiday, I kind of like today's edition. After addressing education, health care, and energy policy, the Obama said, "These are some of...


July 4, 2009, 2:18 pm, 522196

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle ...