Kevin Drum

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rubber hose (Free subscription) | yesterday

kevin drum is no werner herzog. (via susie)

In Which Hillary Says Yes and Kevin Drum Eats His Hat

CJR Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

On the subject of Hillary Clinton being chosen as/agreeing to be Obama's Secretary of State, Kevin Drum, of Mother Jones, promised a couple of weeks ago that he would "eat my hat if it turns out to be true." And here, via some cake-and-icing-and-M&M transubstantiating, he does just that. For keeping promises to readers...

Kevin Drum on climate change

Later On (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

Kevin Drum has a good post this morning: Joe Romm passes along the news today that Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than anyone has previously predicted. You can add this to Romm’s list of other climate change impacts that are happening faster than most climate models predict, including the canonical IPCC models: “The recent [Arctic] sea-ice retreat [...]

The Cassandra Hunt

Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

Kevin Drum comments, here is Brad DeLong, and Matt Yglesias, and Arnold Kling; they make good points all around. There aren't nearly as many Cassandras as you think, once you require more of a person than "having called" the housing...

Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: Public Service

Offshore Services (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008

Rangel, who loudly blasted the companies who were moving offshore, favored the anti-Nabors legislation, but Republicans eventually killed it and Nabors retained its tax haven . Fast forward to 2007, and the same legislation was .. See original here: Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: Public Service

Kevin Drum asks the Romers some questions

Angry Bear (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008

Robert Waldmann Tries to answer. Drum summarizes better than Waldmann Last year Christina and David Romer wrote a paper that attempted to quantify the effect of tax changes on economic growth. I read it at the time and didn't understand it. I read it again a few minutes ago and I still don't understand it. So my question is: Can you please explain your paper titled "The Macroeconomic Effects...

Civic identity

Heartache with Hard Work (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008

Via Kevin Drum , I wasted 10 minutes that should have been spent doing actual work taking this civics test from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I got 32 of 33 right, and the one I missed was really stupid. So I guess I'm relatively aware on these things - not surprising given that I'm in a Ph.D. program in politics - but the whole thing feels a little fishy to me. Some of the questions...

Holder and the Rich Pardon

Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Richard Cohen, Ezra Klein, and Kevin Drum are all very disturbed by Attorney General-designate Eric Holder’s role in Bill Clinton’s 11th hour pardoning of Marc Rich. I’m by no means a Clinton fan but the idea that Holder should be held accountable for Clinton’s corrupt use of his plenary power to pardon whoever the hell he feels like strikes me as more than a little...

Quantum of Feasibility

Brian Beutler (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Kevin Drum complains about the new Bond film: The pace was so frenetic — chase, fight, chase, fight, chase, fight — that there was hardly any story that seemed worth following, and what story there was just wasn't very interesting. (Cornering the water supply of Bolivia? Seriously? And you thought the later Roger Moore movies were ridiculous') I sort of sympathize. After all, there's...

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United In Film Criticism

Coyote Blog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

Kevin Drum and I disagree about many things. I read his blog specifically to find things to refute. But it turns out we had the exact same two reactions to Quantum of Solace:Now, I also happen to think Quantum of...

What’s a Super-Senior Tranche?

Global Financial News (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches. Especially when Kevin Drum asks so nicely. So here it is. Deep breath... By now, you understand how a synthetic bond can behave very much like a real bond. So consider the situation of a bank, which has made a bunch of loans, to 100 different companies....

What's a Super-Senior Tranche?

SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Felix Salmon submits: I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches. Especially when Kevin Drum asks so nicely. So here it is. Deep breath... By now, you understand how a synthetic bond can behave very much like a real bond. So consider the situation of a bank, which has made a bunch of loans,...

• What’s a Super-Senior Tranche? - Global Financial News
• "I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches" - Libertarian Democrat Point Of View
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"I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches"

Libertarian Democrat Point Of View (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Felix Salmon considers Super-Senior Tranches : "I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches. Especially when Kevin Drum asks so nicely. So here it is. Deep breath..." Steady on, old boy. Try explaining Godel's Proof. "By now, you understand how a synthetic bond can behave very much like a real...

What's a Super-Senior Tranche?

Market Pipeline (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

( Felix Salmon ) I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches. Especially when Kevin Drum asks so nicely. So here it is. Deep breath... By now, you understand how a synthetic bond can behave very much like a real bond. So consider the situation of a bank, which has made a bunch of loans, to 100...

What's a Super-Senior Tranche?

FelixSalmon.com (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

I've written myself into a corner, now, and can't think of any way to get out of writing the promised blog entry on super-senior tranches. Especially when Kevin Drum asks so nicely. So here it is. Deep breath... By now, you understand how a synthetic bond can behave very much like a real bond. So consider the situation of a bank, which has made a bunch of loans, to 100 different companies....