LBO News from Doug Henwood » gloating

My review of Hillary’s What Happened has just been posted on Washington Babylon.

https://lbo-news.com/2017/09/25/my-review-of-hrcs-book/

Great moments in political analysis: Bill Clinton, November 2016: Bill Clinton branded Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn the “maddest person in the room” in a speech he gave explaining the resurgence ...

https://lbo-news.com/2017/06/09/hahaha/

Back in the summer of 2011, McKinsey released results of a survey they’d done of employers showing that many would not offer health insurance coverage when Obamacare* takes full effect. The lib...

https://lbo-news.com/2013/02/19/yeah-lots-of-employers-are-going-to-drop-health-coverage/

Last week, Dylan Matthews made some strong claims about how damaging teacher strikes were to student achievement—claims that I spent some time challenging (here and here). He has softened h...

https://lbo-news.com/2012/09/17/dylan-matthews-has-a-rethink-on-teacher-strikes/

I have uncanny experiences reading the bigtime press sometimes. I’ve complained before about how Paul Krugman brings up the rear, sometimes years after I’d written about them. See here for ...

https://lbo-news.com/2012/09/15/why-wait-a-year-for-it-to-show-up-in-the-nyt/

Mike Tomasky writes with some surprise in The Daily Beast (“The 24 and the 42 million, and Basic Competence”) that both the job market and the stock market have done better under Democratic p...

https://lbo-news.com/2012/09/06/presidential-economics-2004-vintage/

Going through past LBOs in order to put together a greatest hits anthology to be published to mark the newsletter’s 25th anniversary next year, I came across this, from issue #92, November 1999...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/08/19/robert-reich-on-social-security-no-problem/

More nuggets from Obama’s interview with the freshly renamed Bloomberg BusinessWeek, now under new management. The irony is, is that on the left we are perceived as being in the pockets of big...

https://lbo-news.com/2010/02/11/obama-luvs-business/

Ha, so Van Jones is out (“White House Adviser on ‘Green Jobs’ Resigns”). All you people who said I was being too “cynical” in my reading (“Obamamania, a febrile disease”) of Obam...

https://lbo-news.com/2009/09/06/now-accepting-apologies/