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Are payday loans like unprotected sex?
Sometimes you read a Tyler Cowen post and you think to yourself, simply: Did he really just say that? Here’s Cowen on payday loans and unprotected...
Elizabeth Warren and Moral Hazard
HuffPo is reporting that Tim Geithner has expressed opposition to Elizabeth Warren’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a...
Weighing In: China and the Race to Green Tech
Jeff Kalmus argues that the idea of a “race” between China and the United States over green tech (suggested by Will Rafey here) is misguided. Clean...
What’s not to love?
Theda Skocpol is not one to mince words. Here she is, in classic form, on fiscal austerity measures: The President, Congressional leaders, and Democrats of all stripes...
New Online Only Article!
As we wait for financial regulation reform to make its way through its final legislative hurdles, it’s a good time to step back and consider questions like...
BP Speech: Our Storyteller in Chief?
In one hour, Obama addresses the nation about the BP Oil Spill. My question about the speech is simple: “How big will he go?” A commitment to energy...
Weighing In: The Big Short
I just finished Michael Lewis’ wonderful book The Big Short. In it, Lewis recasts the financial crisis as a tale of heroism, where three...
Taking Stock of the Spill
Apparently, Obama’s BP Oil Spill performance has been a total disaster. Just check the news. He’s weak, aloof, unemotive, Maureen Down explains. “Mr....
Weighing In: Manliness, A Bad Word for a Good Thing
In his essay “What Makes A Life Significant,” William James gives voice to the “manly virtues” that Wagley, in her “Defense of Manliness,”...
Judging Kagan, Judging Us
I like to think of David Brooks as The New York Times’ “Chronicler of the Powerful and Rich.” He’s gotten some pretty extravagant (and hilarious) criticism...
Current Issue: Spring 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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