Archive for February 4th, 2010

Michael Kinsley, in a fun article in Atlantic Monthly, says no.
He bases this somewhat surprising finding on the recently discussed  ’principles’ that the Tea Party movement was urging on the GOP as a litmus test for future candidates. People were allowed to fail on two of the ten counts. Only those who passed would have been… »

Well now, this is not good news. For a couple of weeks I have been arguing we should not panic when the report on new claims for unemployment insurance showed a slight worsening. First it was because the statistics were messed up by reporting glitches at the state level – or so we were told…. »