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Ezra Klein's Internet Neighborhood A correspondent who wishes to be anonymous, and was also disappointed with Julia Ioffe's profile of Ezra Klein, writes:

Tyler Cowen: Can we agree that…

ON FRIDAY, my colleague here at Free exchange discussed the poor prospects for new Fed action in the wake of May's disappointing jobs numbers:Fed officials are loathe to admit it, but political blowback, of the kind that QE2 ignited overseas and on Capitol Hill (not to mention from some corners inside the Fed) may be the biggest tradeoff.

Ezra Klein has a really excellent column on war costs in today’s Washington Post (Business section).  His essential point is pretty much a central philosophy here on EconomistMom.com:  if we behave as if there are no budget constraints (yet there really are underlying tradeoffs among scarce resources that we just choose to ignore), we’re almost certainly going to make poor choices where marginal

THE debate over just how aggressive the Fed was in its Tuesday policy statement continues. Macroeconomic Advisers suggests that the change in the Fed's language might well have been quite powerful:

Rortybomb submits: Tyler Cowen has written an article for The American Interest entitled "The Inequality That Matters." It’s about inequality, the financial sector and the possibility of reform. I really enjoyed the essay and recommend you check it out; I’m going to write a few critical comments.

A recent Economist/YouGov poll confirmed that while the public is furiously hostile to the budget deficit and furiously hostile to tax increases it’s also furiously hostile to all feasible methods of reducing the deficit by reducing spending.