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I told you this one would blow up. When Cafferty has an opinion about something, you know it’s the height of dumb-hunting season. So as I line up all the outraged opinion peddlers (come on, what’s to be outraged about? This is like Britney Spears — it gives something for these people to write about), [...]

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On a day of titanic economic news from every front, I offer up first for your delectation and delight, Pink Panties Day. Trashing the centrists, part deux. And, in the right corner, Jonah Goldberg comes out swinging by invoking the ever-handy “p” word, as in, centrists don’t have any. Funny, Ross Douthat from this right [...]

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John Taylor makes a mighty convincing argument that government policy had much to do with causing the financial crisis. It’s the new sport: the Greenspan pile-on. John King at CNN seems to think that construction jobs aren’t really jobs. Somehow, all those construction workers are working for free? Taking on the centrists! You know, the [...]

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Greed is good according to Gordon Gecko, no, a Wall Street investment banker. Gets people to work hard. But David Lazarus says that Wall Streetcould learn from folks like you and me who go the extra mile and work hard without bonuses. What went wrong and what we can do about it. Perhaps we should [...]

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He may be a b-tard, but Icahn is always rightabout how management should be more accountable to shareholders. It’s not that companies don’t like regulation — in fact, they love it when it regulates shareholders and leaves them free to trash the place. Okay, I’ve been saying something similar every day in this blog, but [...]

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Finally, a sane look at the so-called “credit crunch” and how healthy banks are lending. Yes, lending. Money. To borrowers. Just like before. If you read anything today, read this. But back to panic mode: the CEO of Netflix wants to pay lots and lots of new taxes. Sure, I’m game. You? And if you [...]

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Obama uses an op-ed generating Web site. Stick in a theme, a few key words, and SHAZAM!, out comes a boilerplate op-ed piece. Congress needs personal economic trainers. This will help morons like Tom Coburn? Joe Klein stuffs the stimulation sausage. That didn’t come out right. The most rational thing to do is panic. Greg [...]

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Dick throws an “Armey Curve” at the new Keynesians. Ball! Paul Krugman is taking deflation mighty serious and he ain’t talking about his self-esteem. It’s shocking and awesome when Martin Wolf starts gets all shock and awe on us. A blog coulda stopped Madoff faster than the SEC — of course, my dirty underwear coulda [...]

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