April 2012 Archive

New York Times Piece Reverses Facts On Economic Effects Of Tax Cuts, Unemployment Benefits

By Marcus Feldman: In a post on The New York Times Economix blog, titled “The Varying Impact of Austerity and Stimulus”  economics professor Casey Mulligan made the dubious argument that lowering ...

All the Presidents’ Speeches – Rolled into One

By Marie Burns: Charles Blow of the New York Times should stop reading Right Wing News. Last night in a “Campaign Stops” post he wrote, “After his primary wins on ...

Ruchir Sharma’s Entry in the “Most Things Wrong in a Short Column” Contest

By Dean Baker: I’m shorting Morgan Stanley after reading the NYT column on China by Ruchir Sharma, the head of emerging market equities at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. ...

What’s Wrong with the Ross Douthat Creed

By Charles P. Pierce: Ross Douthat is a very sincere young man who writes a column for the New York Times, and someone who, alas, usually makes David Brooks ...

Paul Krugman Enters the [Israel] Fray

By David Harris-Gershon: Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, a regular Op-Ed columnist and blogger for The New York Times, is one of America’s leading progressive voices on a ...

NY Times Public Editor Pushes Thin Examples Of The Paper’s Liberal Bias

By Eric Boehlert: Riding a favorite conservative hobbyhorse onto the opinion pages, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane recently urged the paper to cover President Obama more aggressively and highlighted ...

Federal Reserve Board Credibility, Plus 50 Cents, Will Get You a Cup of Coffee

By Dean Baker: Since folks have asked my thoughts (you had to ask?) on the Krugman-Bernanke debate, I will throw in my two cents. The question at hand ...

Why Is NY Times Citing Discredited Gun Researcher John Lott?

By Matt Gertz: For some reason The New York Times decided to give a trend piece on concealed carry clothing for the “fashion aware gun owner” prime placement on the ...

10 of Thomas Friedman’s Dumbest “Big Ideas”

By Belén Fernández: In conferring the honor of “Wanker of the Decade” on New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, blogger Duncan Black observed that “truly great wankers possess ...

For Less than 1 Severance Deal, Guild Seeks Times Pact for 1,100

By Newspaper Guild of New York: After Times management representatives indicated in the last negotiating session that there would be no contract without a freeze of the current ...

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