Beat the Press

If you were worried that you had a drinking problem, you probably would not ask your neighborhood bartender for advice. (Let’s assume the bartender owns the bar, so they pocket the cash from th...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/tDEkAHAvuig/

I saw this piece last week on the soaring price of baseball cards and naturally started thinking about Bitcoin. The article begins with a story about how a rare LeBron James trading card (it’s ...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/dPFR4VxwpMY/

Naomi Klein has an interesting piece in the New York Times on the implications of the Texas disaster. I would disagree with some parts, which attack the Texas approach to energy as “free market...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/Q2R6u8P9KHk/

I posted this Twitter thread this morning. It should be self-explanatory, but it is more than a little infuriating to see the media (not just Thomas Edsall) act like they are innocent bystanders ...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/-AyzHw3SYlY/

That may seem like a silly question. Of course they will know because there are a number of well-funded policy shops that will be spewing out endless papers and columns telling them that they are...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/_mAxFsp-ShQ/

I just read Nicholas Kristof’s column about his childhood friend Mike Stepp. The piece is actually very moving. Mr. Stepp grew up next door to Kristof. As he explains in the column, he grew up ...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/c--w26mv7wY/

I already weighed in on Larry Summers’ complaint that the Biden rescue package may overstimulate the economy. As I said, I thought that while he could be right, the risks of going too small wer...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/5z25CUbd81k/

I have been dismissive of many of the folks, mostly progressives, who highlight wealth inequality as a measure of overall inequality. As most of us know, the richest people in the country have go...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/ws-HqC4_c5Y/

My diatribe in the Nation — the risk of a new Cold War gives us yet another good reason not to be fans of intellectual property. The post Intellectual Property, Inequality, and the New Cold W...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/3WDdtdYMa3s/

It seems that Larry Summers is worried that the stimulus proposed by President Biden is too large. I will say at the onset that he could be right. However, at the most fundamental level, we have ...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beat_the_press/~3/F8y2gbFUqpc/