Ezra’s Pre-Game Show

The truly interesting questions about Ezra Klein and his Wonkblog are four:

By Alyssa Rosenberg As always, spoilery discussions are fine, just label them as such at the outset, please.

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

On his Washington Post blog today, Ezra Klein basically says the same thing I did a few days ago.  The deficit hawks and stimulus lovers are so busy arguing that the other party is completely insane that they’re unable to recognize that they actually