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June 19, 2024 | The American Prospect
Economic Punditry And The “Hotdog Guy” Problem
Why centrist opinion columnists have no one to blame but themselves for public misconceptions about the economy.
May 28, 2024
What Jamie Dimon Gets That Matt Yglesias Doesn’t
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon understood that no Vice Chair for Supervision could make Jerome Powell’s Fed take regulation seriously. Why didn’t Matt Yglesias?
May 10, 2024
Misinformation Miscues
It’s certainly true that liberals can believe things that are actually incorrect, but the centrality of criticizing the left detracts from the core part of the argument.
May 03, 2024
Keep Yellen’ At Larry Summers
The Treasury Secretary Is Right To Point Out Summers’ Record Of Failed Predictions, And Other Democrats Should Too.
March 29, 2024
Furman’s Frustration
He’s Mad That Robert Rubin’s Gang No Longer Reigns Supreme
March 22, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Bad-Faith Criticism of Biden’s Budget Proposal
The organization that claims to champion deficit reduction actually wants to cut your Social Security.
March 22, 2024
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Bad-Faith Criticism of Biden’s Budget Proposal
The organization that claims to champion deficit reduction actually wants to cut your Social Security.
March 18, 2024
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Touch
A quick roundup of some pundits striking out from their ivory towers to completely and utterly miss the point.
March 10, 2024
Responding To Larry Summers
We asked the media’s most prominent economist about his many corporate entanglements. His defense? Stop asking questions.
March 01, 2024
In Leaping to Defend Wendy’s, This WaPo Column Tells A Whopper
Catherine Rampell’s crazy defense of Wendy’s surge pricing.
February 09, 2024
Celebrating A Year Of All In
Let’s Examine The Tech Dufuses Who’ve Become Twitter’s Economic Pundits As A Result Of Elon’s Algorithm Fixing
March 31, 2023
Hack Watch: Steve Rattner, SVB, And Selective Expertise
A wealth manager with a history of breaking the rules should not be the authority on bank regulation.
March 25, 2023 | Common Dreams
Steven Rattner's Not Afraid Of Work From Home, He's Afraid Of Worker Power
American workers have just started getting the barest minimum of a few lucky breaks. But that is terrifying to Rattner and his fellow moguls, so they need some sort of rational argument for why these bare scraps of power are actually bad for everyone.
March 22, 2023
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Ethics Watchdog Launches "Hack Watch" Website Tracking Media Analysts
Larry Summers, Steven Rattner, Marc Goldwein, Maya MacGuineas Among Top Targets