Meant to post this yesterday: WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook interviews NYT Mag’s new On Language maven Ben Zimmer.
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Nate Silver counts the votes
Over at fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver is cautiously optimistic.
TPM: Countdown to Reform Wire
Talking Points Memo counts the votes and links to the news. The administration sure sounds confident they’re going to win passage of the Senate bill in the House. But it’s going to be close and I wish it were clearer where the votes are actually going to come from.
Taking the NYT to task on Social Security
Over at The American Prospect, Dean Baker’s “Beat The Press” column regularly questions the economic assumptions (and knowledge) behind mostly mainstream media reporting. This post on the differences between Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid as a “fast-growing entitlement benefit program” is typical – and classic.
Liars Poker 2
Steven Pearlstein reviews Michael Lewis’s latest, out tomorrow.
The first pararaph: “If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis, let it be Michael Lewis’s, ‘The Big Short.’”
I will take his advice.
NYT: Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal
Will anything good come from this brawl? And if so, what?
Janet Yellen returning to DC?
My friend and former Haas School of Business colleague Janet Yellen is likely to be the new Fed vice chair. Here she is with her husband (and frequent co-author) George Akerlof on the day he won the Nobel in economics.
Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman are both happy.
Me, too.
Student Aid Reform to be Tied to Health Care in Reconciliation
Steve Benen in The Washington Monthly takes note of a growing movement in the House and Senate to include reform of student loans in the same reconciliation package with health care. It has a certain logic in terms of bringing House liberals aboard, and Nebraska’s Sen. Ben Nelson won’t like it one bit.
Three from The Treatment
The New Republic’s health care blog, The Treatment, has become indispensable to understanding what’s happening in the health insurance reform macro debate and the details of the politics involved.
Three recent items from Jonathan Cohn’s self-described “must-read guide to health care reform:”
Australia Can Wait. Health Care Cannot. (3/12)
Bali Arts 