Over the past 35 years, college completion rates have been flat. Income growth has stagnated. America has squandered its human capital advantage. Students at these places are on self-directed missions to reverse that, one person at a time. Community college enrollment has been increasing at more than three times the rate of four-year colleges. This… Continue reading No Size Fits All
Meet Bob at 5pm
People lined up to meet Bob. I’m sure the free Wine had nothing to do with. Bob was clearly the big draw.
The president is making sense
Why would it drive private insurance out of business? If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care; if they tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can’t run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That’s… Continue reading The president is making sense
Ahmadinejad reelected in Coup
A few thousand Iranian young people demonstrated in Iran on Saturday morning to protest the announcement by that country’s Interior Ministry that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a second term by an overwhelming margin of 63 percent. The president’s rivals decried ballot fraud and many observers saw the results as a hard-liner coup. If the… Continue reading Ahmadinejad reelected in Coup
Brad DeLong: Robert Reich Writes About the Debt Scare
Back in 1992 the real interest rate on a ten-year U.S. Treasury bond was 5% per year. Right now the real interest rate on a ten-year U.S. Treasury bond is more or less zero. Borrow back in 1992 thinking that the government is going to repay its borrowings ten years down the road and ten… Continue reading Brad DeLong: Robert Reich Writes About the Debt Scare
frailty, temptation, and common miscalculation
“You knew the risks. Either you felt you were above the law or you had some kind of death wish.” His response was that neither was the case. “It’s a story that has been repeated since our earliest days as a species. It’s both obvious and not susceptible to an answer,” he insisted. “Nonetheless, we… Continue reading frailty, temptation, and common miscalculation
Pot, Meet Kettle
the picture that those Republicans painted of Sotomayor doesn’t seem to be supported by her actions. The Scotusblog examined her court of appeals decisions in race-related cases and found that she rejected claims of discrimination 80 percent of the time. Op-Ed Columnist – Pot, Meet Kettle – NYTimes.com Of the 96 cases, Judge Sotomayor and… Continue reading Pot, Meet Kettle
Apportioning Blame for the Deficit
David Leonhardt’s column breaking down the “causes” of the budget deficit has been widely reported and the bottom line repeated many times: President Obama’s agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits, despite what many of his Republican critics are saying. Marginal Revolution: Apportioning Blame for the Deficit… Continue reading Apportioning Blame for the Deficit
Fox Business Network Thinks “Microsoft” and “Apple” Are Search Engines
At least Fox didn’t accuse Mozilla’s Firefox of being socialist.
Bizarro World by Lee Camp
Via Lee Camp: WATCH: California Banning Gay Marriage – Part of A Trend? Looking forward to Htrae day next fall.