Midday open thread
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- Jacob Weisberg on Obama's Brilliant First Year:
About one thing, left and right seem to agree these days: Obama hasn't
done anything ye...
The Neverending Debt
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Via Brad DeLong, a fascinating paper (PDF) by François Velde: The French
government currently honors a very unusual debt contract: an annuity that
was issu...
Bloomberg Sets New Spending Record
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg "spent at least $102 million to
narrowly win a third term, breaking his previous records for the most
expensive self-...
Saturday Roundup
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* Emerging meme: Obama’s Asia approach, widely maligned in the media, has in
fact been vindicated, with the latest being the IAEA censure of Iran on
nukes....