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Here’s what Germany’s largest daily newspaper Bild Zeitung has to say about the politics in the US around the debt ceiling.

These questions sound like Congress thinks the US will be the next Greece. And that makes them likely to turn the US into the next Japan. The Congressmen almost never ask questions. They are statements posed as questions to get Bernanke to…

It may not have been the most felicitous choice of phrase, but Mark Halperin’s characterization of Barack Obama was not far off the mark, even if he did get suspended for it.

I feel the media in India has become quite complacent about the tawdry condition of free speech in India. All too often journalists can be warned off a seamy story by a tiny exercise of power or influence. All too often, the crooks are able…

In case you don't have the time to read my text version of the AOL acquisition of the Huffington Post, here is the Taiwanese animated version.

Ozzy Osborne and Justin Bieber for Best Buy Volkswagen and Vader, Audi in Jail, and the New GoDaddy Diva Chrysler's Imported from Detroit Eminem Ad

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Federal Reserve economist Kartik Athreya has written what all Federal…

A post on the latest economics debates by Claus Vistesen Steve Waldman has a very good post this week about the folly about the austerity vs non-austerity discussion which seems to be going the rounds at the moment. In fact, it you take a…

Must-reads Rajiv Sethi: On Blogs and Economic Discourse Time to shut down the US Federal Reserve? – Telegraph Blogs The Usual Fare Morgan Stanley - Global Economic Forum - The Case for Argentina Leaving oil spill alone…

In defense of bloggers on the economy Marginal Revolution: How hard is economics? Signal and Noise in Economics Writing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty Matthew Yglesias » Do I Have Anything Interesting…