Averting a slump: it's the politics, stupid

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VICTORIA — Opposition New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix called British Columbia’s Liberals cheats Wednesday, as the ongoing debate about the failed Liberal plan to court ethnic voters turned into a name-calling contest, and one Liberal cabinet minister said the NDP was beating a dead horse. Dix said the seeds of the Liberal cheating were planted during Premier Christy Clark’s leadership campaign in February 2011 and continued throughout the development of her jobs’ plan and up until last spring’s election.

Japanese officialsn have little to say about a government appointed Japan Broadcasting Corporation executive who said that the Nanking Massacre of 1937-1938 never happened, the South China Morning Post reports.

from Dean Baker Doing policy work in Washington, I tend to be around people who are highly educated and think of themselves as very intelligent. Many of them think of ordinary Americans as being stupid and ill-informed. After all, they understand little about politics and the government; in their view this reflects a lack of […]

By Dr. Duru: TRI Pointe Homes (TPH) reported very strong earnings for the second quarter of 2013. I listened to the webcast to get some color beyond the prepared release and remarks, especially since the initially strong response in the stock faded almost completely by the close.

People are fond of saying 'it's the economy, stupid' whenever they talk about politics. But I wonder if we should say 'it's the culture war, stupid' whenever we talk about economics. Recently, Redstate's Erick Erickson started a new tumblr called ?We are the 53%? as a counter to the??'We are the 99%' tumblr that has ...