The Anti-Economist — From the April 2013 issue
The trouble with the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget projections
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The Anti-Economist — From the April 2013 issue
The Anti-Economist — March 12, 2013, 5:02 pm
The trouble with the Congressional Budget Office???s long-term budget projections
The trouble with the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget projections
The Anti-Economist — March 7, 2013, 1:33 pm
Deficit misdirection
Deficit misdirection
The Anti-Economist — January 15, 2013, 5:23 pm
The incoming treasury secretary’s positions on regulation and the deficit offer cause for concern
The incoming treasury secretary’s positions on regulation and the deficit offer cause for concern
The Anti-Economist — January 3, 2013, 1:17 pm
The question should be whether to cut the deficit right now, not how
The question should be whether to cut the deficit right now, not how
Easy chair — From the January 2013 issue
Notebook — From the September 2009 issue
Article — From the January 2009 issue
Paying the price for eight years of Bush
Article — From the June 2007 issue
Article — From the January 2004 issue
Banqueting upon borrowing in the nation’s capital
Article — From the June 2003 issue
Attempted robbery with a loaded federal budget
The easy chair — From the June 1982 issue
Does anyone around here believe in capitalism?

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.