Eric Florack on August 1st, 2011

College Point, NY— I’m across the water from Manhattan, with Laguardia between myself and there. It’s a pretty sight in the early evening, at least from this distance. I’ll be back here tomorrow morning,  with another load of drinks. Apparently

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2010

The the big news story for the last couple of weeks has been the IPO of General Motors .  They managed to raise something on the order of $20 billion last week selling literally millions of shares owned by the

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davidl on September 20th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Dumbo’s economics, It seems obvious that Dumbo b/k/a Barrack Obama doesn’t know much, if anything, about economics.  Dumbo does seem to know how to play the class envy card. from Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard:

What’s more, President Obama’s

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DJ Durant on March 24th, 2010

The problem still hasn’t been solved.  Some time a go, I wrote a piece about President Obama’s biggest concern.  At least, it should be his biggest concern, because if this particular issue is not addressed, it will go well for

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Eric Florack on October 2nd, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere..The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

ramble-unemployment

  • UNEMPLOYMENT AT 9.8%: That’s far worse than was estimated… about double, in fact. And if you count those who have simply giving
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Eric Florack on March 8th, 2009

Me, at OTB just now:

The “cutting taxes” argument strikes me as an unusually broad field of battle. I have found it useful to restrict the argument to the following:

taxesThe Amount of government -directed spending we have seen recently

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davidl on February 23rd, 2009

Michelle is calling it a Tea Party.   William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, offers another analogy:

This movement can succeed if it does not stop at protest and includes changes in economic behavior. Obama’s redistributive plans require higher taxation,

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2008

The subject of Negative Campaigns came up at OTB yesterday.

I tell James:

There are some issues one cannot play Pollyanna over. As an example, and at the risk of tossing this thing down a subthread, let’s run a quote

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