Oh, and centrist Democrats often urge leftier types to rally behind their nominees in general elections. I agree. Anyone claiming that there’s no difference between the parties is a fool. But this deal has to be reciprocal. Mamdani will be the Democratic nominee, and anyone calling themselves a Democrat should support him.

I think the problem is the Dems have generally made sure this wasn’t an issue previously. That has evidently cracked and we need to learn everything we can from this candidate to help establish the precedence and playbook for ensuring future success and requisite selection of similar candidates in spite of the existing problematic political machinery or framework

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel winning economist. There’s no such thing as a Nobel Prize In Economics, and economists were upset by this and made their own prize with a complicated name that the media would shorten and muddle with a real Nobel Prize.

I still haven’t forgiven Krugman for arguing for bailing out the banks in the 07/08 crisis/crash…

(We could have say, done that, but put all their boards in Federal Prison, maybe put them into some kind of mandatory recievership/government control, restructure, maybe break em up a bit anti trust style, then let em go a few years later… with new boards, and strings attached… or just let them all implode back then, no Bernanke put, yeah it would have sucked but hey, look at where we are now, the entire corporate world ~20 years down the road of being insanely mismanaged, hyperprofit seeking, unable to function without very low interest rates… and now the debt is much worse, the economy is going to crash much harder, and we’re done being the workd reserve currency, and we’ll be lucky not to hyperinflate/default on our debt and basically have no substantial FDI for a generation…)

But it doesn’t matter, because any even semi-reasonable economist who isn’t a complete free market extremist ideological wacko can point out what Paul’s pointing out here.

If Nobel winning economists could convince the average voter we’d have luxury gay space communism already.

People are too stupid for it.