Richard Shelby
Lindsay Lohan's Right-Wing Monetary Views
Lindsay Lohan turns out to be a hard money crank: READ MORE >>
Today in Economic Nonsense: Richard Shelby
The Perfect Crime: GOP Kills Diamond Nomination
Peter Diamond, the Nobel-winning economist from MIT, will not be serving on the Federal Reserve. Therein lies a story about our dysfunctional Senate and our even more dysfunctional economics debate. READ MORE >>
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-- Jon Cohn worries about Obama's plan to reduce the deficit. -- Nate Silver: Boehner's debt ceiling brinksmanship "as close as you can get in American politics to mutually assured destruction." -- Richard Shelby has never been at war with a government shutdown. READ MORE >>
Free Peter Diamond!
Few political spectacles depress and alarm me right now more than the stalled nomination of Peter Diamond. READ MORE >>
Shelby to Nobel Committee: F*** Off
As you may know, Senator Richard Shelby voted against putting MIT economist Peter Diamond on the Federal Reserve Board and is, presumably, among the senators who have blocked that nomination via anonymous hold. READ MORE >>
Peter Diamond, Still Blocked from Fed, Wins Nobel (Updated)
Peter Diamond, a 70-year-old economist at MIT, just won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Yes, that's the same Peter Diamond whom President Obama appointed to the Federal Reserve in April and whose confirmation Republicans have blocked. READ MORE >>
