Brad DeLong

Twitterstorm delong: February 24, 2012

• RT @delong BBC News - Mild drought caused Maya collapse in Mexico, Guatemala || Eco-tipping points Rnt where you think!

• Official statistics: Don’t lie to me, Argentina | The Economist http://economist.com/node/21548242

• Is the Administration Joining Team Balance-Sheet Recession? | Rortybomb rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/is-…

• MT @delong James Kvaal: Romney & Santorum Tax & Budget Plans Increase Deficit by $Trillions http://bit.ly/yfV1PN || Hey, its what Reps do!

• Mark Schmitt Reviews Geoffrey Kabaservice's "Rule And Ruin" | The New Republic tnr.com/book/review/mo…

• Now We See the Violence Inherent in the System!: Steven Pinker Is Being Repressed! Department http://tinyurl.com/7p425nx

• Unlearning Economics ‏ @UnlearningEcon Wondering if people like Krugman and Delong are actually more dangerous than the more RW economists, by appearing reasonable.

• Alchemic Architect ‏ @alchetect If the central bank succeeds in raising inflation expectations, it'll move the PR closer to the real interest rate http://bit.ly/w6hCB2

• Ryan Avent Is Sick of Arnold Kling: Invisible Wage-Push Inflation Vigilantes Watch http://tinyurl.com/7arj3ma

• Stephanie Kelton ‏ @deficitowl I'm more comfortable w/notion of a L/Trap than an IS curve! Keynesians use IS/LM @pilkingtonphil: @delong IS there even a 'liquidity trap'?

• Bob Fishell ‏ @BobFishell @deficitowl @delong QE is admittedly over my head, but it seems to me the money just piles up in banks and doesn't stimulate anything.

• Stephanie Kelton ‏ @deficitowl Reply Retweet Favorite · Open @delong QE is probably DE-flationary. Large deficits can be safe even outside L/Traps Fondly, Kemosabe delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/02/de…

• Austin Frakt ‏ @afrakt @delong I defer. I'm not willing to infer conversion motivation. I convert when I don't want changes. At the WH, will scrub my name first.

• moe tkacik ‏ @moetkacik All I know of these guys is they're both on my "libertrollz" list. Fight! @delong: Ryan Avent Is Sick of Arnold Kling http://bit.ly/wFxNY4

• @felixsalmon People did not use to be: "Habemus enim huiusce modi senatus consultum, verum inclusum in tabulis tamquam in vagina reconditum"

• @delong "when its elites are protected from their mistakes, societies fail." ~ jared diamond

• Yes, we can! ‏ @supertascha Republican Presidential Candidates Lie All the Time, About Everything, Fiscal Balance Edition delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/02/de…

• Frozen Dead Guy Days | To Freeze… or not to Freeze http://frozendeadguydays.org

• Robert Silvey ‏ @rsilvey @delong Incomprehensible! A barren life, devoid of irony or semiotics!

• Christina Romer: We Need A Regime Change at the Fed: Christina Romer: Macro and Other Market… http://goo.gl/fb/E83qY

• @mattyglesias Time to sing the hymn: "He Is Trampling the Ungodly with His Hooves of Red-Hot Iron"!!

• Dutch Health Policy Edition: Republicans Lie All the Time, About Everything http://bit.ly/yTSaF8

• Mark Thoma: Broadening the Base and Lowering the Rates Is Good Policy, But Not a Short-Run Employm... http://ow.ly/1hAZyN

• Romney Tax Plan: Gimmicky Proposal That Blows Huge Hole in the Budget: The bar is much lower for... http://dlvr.it/1F0M2x

• I Think Jared Bernstein Gets It Right: JB: The Wrong Narrative on La... http://bit.ly/xaxbjM

• @TheStalwart @modeledbehavior Are you saying I am being PWND by Modeled Behavior?

• Gabriel Rossman ‏ @GabrielRossman Reply Retweet Favorite · Open @delong @plutocracyfiles Absolutely, you me, and @henryfarrell all agree on the tribute thing

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles me to be as completely out of touch with reality as the Apple Computer passage made fun of by SIfu&co (3/3)

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles lending it money or that the U.S. is paying imperial tribute to China by paying it interest seems to (2/3)

• @delong @plutocracyfiles Agreed. Concretely you can see that w monetization of feudal obligations then the effect of credit markets on war

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles But I am scared of chapter 12--the idea that either China is paying imperial tribute to the U.S. by (1/3)

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles And then financial markets make thin-ties debt which is not a "thick ties" power-submission thing (4/4)

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles phenomenon. Money enables arms-length thin-ties exchange and greatly enlarges your economic network (3/4)

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles inherently a "thick ties" phenomenon. Balanced non-monetary gift-exchange is also a "thick ties" (2/4)

• @GabrielRossman @plutocracyfiles Perhaps a triple movement? Unbalanced gift exchange create debt, obligation, and power and is (1/4)

• @delong @plutocracyfiles In any case very glad to get an economic historian's perspective. Hope you blog a review when you finish reading

• @delong @plutocracyfiles I don't recall though how early he makes this point

• @delong @plutocracyfiles Actually I see monetization facilitating arms-length exchange as a central part of his argument.

• @GabrielRossman @PlutocracyFiles you can exchange with people you barely know and may never see again. That's huge. Graeber misses it (5/5)

• @GabrielRossman @PlutocracyFiles your exchange network can now become a thin-ties network rather than a thick-ties network: with money (4/5)

• @GabrielRossman @PlutocracyFiles double coincidence of wants barter problem and makes exchange possible. It's that money means that (3/5)

• @GabrielRossman @PlutocracyFiles Lydia/the Aegean around 600 BC with they invention of coinage. It's not that coinage--money--solves (2/5)

• @GabrielRossman @PlutocracyFiles I'm reading. The anthropology is good--although I think Graeber misses completely what happened in (1/5)

• @PlutocracyFiles @delong It's on p 96. The more sustained problem of "tribute" is all of chapter 12. Still, read the book, it's good overall

• Clark Kerr on Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor: About Dorothea Lange: Lange's Berkeley Connections: Professor emer... http://bit.ly/z5Gbjm

• Oh wow RT @UnaMullally: How to discredit your entire book with one sentence: http://bit.ly/xrbkgj (via @OrrCollins and @TimHarford)

Twitterstorm delong: February 16, 2012

• radleybalko Have a look at the guy in the mug photo. Police say those injuries are from a single fall after he was Tased. http://azinews.com/2012/02/16/mom…

• Eric Boehlert and yes, that was a Bush-appointed judge who mocked @andrewbreitbart's legal team in Sherrod ruling; http://bit.ly/wOrbR0

• David Leonhardt Hamilton Nolan on upper-middle-class self pity: "Money: once you spend it all, you don't feel rich any more." (Ht @ryanchittum)

• Betsey Stevenson @DLeonhardt: The whole point is that the top 1% are not the upper middle class. They are rich!

• Eric Kleefeld BREAKING: Bayer stock price up 1%.

• Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert leadership! RT @nationaljournal: BREAKING: Mitt Romney is skipping the March 1 GOP debate because of scheduling issues

• Kat Hate to break it to Mr. Friess, but I can do a lot of things with aspirin between my knees.

• Brian Beutler @brianbeutler RT @KagroX: Friess: Her aspirin said no, but her eyes said yes.

• Garance Franke-Ruta RT @BuzzFeedBen: So is the damage Foster Friess did to Santorum today valued

• Jesse Taylor Aleve would like to remind you that it's the doctor-recommended alternative to knee aspirin.

• Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff In leaving the contraceptives beat for about an hour to cover Medicare, I apparently missed something involving aspirin and knees? #help

• Matthew Zeitlin RT @ObsoleteDogma: Sigh. Next thing you know, Catholic hospitals will try to stop paying for aspirin for their employees. #backinmyday

• Erick Erickson The more I think about it, and I know they deny it, I just don't believe George Stephanpolous's question on birth control wasn't coordinated

• @EWErickson "Although they deny it, I don't believe Stephanpolous's question on birth control wasn't coordinated" JOURNOLIST LIVES!!!!!!

• Tim Harford Exactly. RT @benschott: OK. For the last time, IMHO … ENVY is directed at what others have; JEALOUSY is protecting what you have.

• emptywheel Again, Foster Friess and his wife either spent abt 20 years of their marriage not fucking, or he's used more than Bayer aspirin.

• @TimHarford @benschott SPITE is conspicuous consumption in public so other people envy what you have...

• Ed Schultz Fox News host to Congresswoman Maxine Waters "step away from the crack pipe" http://bit.ly/zRsNdx

• David Leonhardt @BetseyStevenson Fair enough. I was using the self-description the group prefers.

• Betsey Stevenson @DLeonhardt oh so you needed irony quotes around "upper middle class"

• David Leonhardt @BetseyStevenson The point of Nolan's essay, on Gawker, is that UMC claims to be mid class -- bc it doesn't have much after spending a lot.

• Nu Wexler Secy. Geithner to House Budget Repubs: "You guys just spent six months threatening to default on obligations. You call that leadership?"

• Ryan Lizza So this means Newt vs. John King? MT @michaelpfalcone: Santorum hasn't "made a firm" decision on GA debate, but ... likely to skip too

• Markos Moulitsas Best part about this year? GOP base no longer satisfied with dog whistles. They want entire agenda out in the open.

• Markos Moulitsas RT @timkmak: Under fire by Paul supporters all wk, ME GOP is now recounting straw poll votes, POLITICO has learned http://politi.co/A9mesw

• emptywheel One of the best parts of the Foster Friess BS is that he was lecturing a woman just 6 years younger than he is.

• Markos Moulitsas @markos RT @KagroX: Man-on-Bayer #Santorum

• Congressmember Bass since the contraceptive debate began, the leading voices have been men. Even Republican women aren't speaking out in support of this madness

• Talking Points Memo GOPers asked if they would refuse to back a Prez hopeful who enacted Obama rule they detest. Awkwardness ensues: http://tpm.ly/wm44G3

• Josh Marshall Romney pulls the alarm, says he's bagging on big Super Tuesday debate

• Adam Goldman I faintly remember all this noise about feds reading underwear bomber his Miranda rights. AP has story about him going to prison forever.

• Steve Benen How long until GOPers ask, "If Romney lacks the confidence to debate, what will he do vs Obama?" http://on.msnbc.com/zFGQ6G

• Eric Boehlert i'm sure @ericbolling wishes @mmfa didn't exists; didn't catch him telling black Dem to step away from "crack pipe"; http://bit.ly/ybqPOx

• Garance Franke-Ruta RT @rushlimbaugh: Dems Ginned Up Contraception Debate to Fire Up Their Base, Divide the GOP and Distract from the Economy...

• watertigernyc Sweater vests -- Nature's contraceptive. #everyoneonsantorumscampaignisinsane

• Thoughts on Potential Output, Monetary Policy, and Economic Weblogging: A Comment on Scott Sumner's Comment on Bulla... http://bit.ly/zyju8l

• May We Please Keep Talking About Family Planning Until November?: Garry Wills Smacksdown E.J. Dionne Watch http://bit.ly/yIaXGm

• Effects of the 2009 Recovery Act: Heartening News About What Economists Think--Although Caroline Hoxby and... http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/02/ef…

• David Roberts Yes, that was exactly the problem. RT @nycsouthpaw: @drgrist it's just much, much dumber than what you're thinking

• David Leonhardt From '79 to '07, middle-class incomes grew 11% pretax and 23% after tax. For top earners: 73% pretax, 160% after tax. http://bit.ly/zDIDKP

• Matt Yglesias You must play @dsquareddigest's Greece Choose Your Own Adventure right now!

• Eric Boehlert Rep. Issa: no women allowed to testify about birth control. Santorum sugar daddy: ladies use aspirin as birth control; #gendergapGOP

• DanRiehl RT @rollcall: .@stupolitics asks: Just how much does @MIttRomney hate @NewtGingrich? http://roll.cl/znnPD8

• Democratic Grandee on Romney on Detroit: "Gee, I know we Democrats are not at our most coherent on the campaign trail. But this is absurd!"

• Jane Agdern @TPM Desperation will drive a man to say anything!

• @TPM "Romney is a son of Detroit in the same way that Oedipus is a son of Laertes."

• Garance Franke-Ruta Shakira attacked by a sea lion that mistook her BlackBerry for a fish. Via @zbyronwolf http://abcn.ws/y00AIc

• Greg Sargent Any poll that gauges whether people think religious institutions should have to cover birth control is obsolete. That's not the policy.

• Pam Spaulding THIS: MT @joesudbay: Been saying for years that theocratic GOPers weren't just coming for gays - birth control ... http://babbl.me/jsvaq

• daveweigel If we just keep debating birth control and fetal citizenship for a few months, the GOP surge will be unstoppable.

• sarah wildman OMG. really now. OMFG. Santorum backer Friess: ‘Gals’ Used To Put Aspirin Between Their Knees For Contraception

• "Iran is definitely to Santorum's left on birth control. Far to his left."

• @TedGayer @justinwolfers 46-12 is characterized as "more evenly divided" Not "still an overwhelming majority"?

• Justin Wolfers Survey of leading (D & R) economists asks if the unemployment rate lower b/c of fiscal stimulus? 33 agree; 2 disagree. http://igmchicago.org/igm-economic-e…

• davidfrum In a Florida cab listening to Limbaugh urge listeners not to be "disheartened" by improving economy

• Talking Points Memo OHIO POLL: Santorum 42, Romney 24 http://tpm.ly/zZid7z

• The London Economist Antiendorses Mitt Romney http://bit.ly/x1wEGg

• Amanda Marcotte @AlyssaRosenberg I know! Telling women how to use their benefits doesn't seem different to me than telling them how to use their salary.

• Steve Benen Romney said Obama's plan "would make GM the living dead." Zombie GM is looking pretty spry http://on.msnbc.com/w06b5W

• Jesse Taylor Bishop Lori unable to comment on Georgetown's provision of birth control benefits to employees. Because of conscience.

• Amanda Marcotte @AlyssaRosenberg Of course, we must remember that religiously affiliated orgs AREN'T required to pay for BC, but insurers are.

• Amanda Marcotte @AmandaMarcotte
  I, for one, love that Issa is giving the Democrats reels of footage to use in campaign ads pointing

• Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/wXTOLk Is Issa working for the Democrats? Blocking women from testifying about women's health care is just too easy.

• Jesse Taylor Amazingly, more women are involved in the fight over skirts at CPAC than a congressional hearing on birth control for women.

• Brian Beutler Pelosi says she wants to leave the GOP nomination process to the GOP. "They're branding it in a very special way." #lulz

• Mobutu Sese Seko Latinos were blocked from entering the Alabama statehouse yesterday. Why can I easily picture minorities denied entry to Alabama buildings?

• Ana Marie Cox Or even a lady who agrees with him? RT @emptywheel: Does that also mean Issa has never heard of a woman minister?

• Ana Marie Cox To be fair, all the women who Issa had lined up to testify canceled because had to go to the menstrual hut.

• Amanda Marcotte http://politi.co/yJhOzJ Huh, you'd think if this is such a toxic issue for the GOP, they wouldn't fight so hard against contraception.

• Matt Yglesias All-male House GOP leadership gets all-male witness panel to agree that all-male Catholic hierarchy should set contraceptives policy.

• jennifer bendery Pelosi on fire today about GOP's birth control complaints: "I may at some point be moved to explain biology to my colleagues."

• Mark Thoma Praises the New York Fed's Expansion of Its LOLR Role http://bit.ly/xao84J

• Noam Scheiber's 'The Escape Artist' Is Leaking Out... http://bit.ly/yMZyUn

• Matt Yglesias @Atrios definitely agree that we should hear more about Sweden. Great exchange rate devaluation success story.

• Lobsterdammerung: An Interview with the GOP Chairman of the Maine Caucuses's Missing County

• daveweigel The GOP chairman of the missing Maine caucus county says there are enough votes there to give Paul a win http://slate.me/xUC3so

• Daniel Gross which MI voters that don't already support Romney does he think he's appealing to w/ false claims re: auto bailout?

• Working spouses cause inequality? Can this emerging

• Mark Thoma on the American Social Fabric http://bit.ly/AnGX2T

• Paul Krugman: Cameron and the Confidence Fairy: An Update

• Chris Blattman I am kind of shocked at how many of my PhD students are emailing or tweeting at 630am. I did not. They must be in another time zone.

• Nate Silver Romney doubles down on "let Detroit go bankrupt" in Detroit News op-ed:

• DeLong Smackdown Smackdown Watch by Digby and Company: Von Mises as Patriarch Edition http://bit.ly/yGyR5R

• Mitt Romney Runs to the Left of Obama on Entitlements: Attacks Budget for Not More Spending More http://bit.ly/zTTRmr

• DeLong Smackdown Watch: Gene Callahan Edition http://bit.ly/A9HpXZ

• @zunguzungu Two big questions: (i) what happens to current Greek debt? (ii) who pays for how much Gk gvt in the future? Different questions

• klhoughton @stevebenen @delong Given the candidates who are skipping the 1 March debate, the only possible response is "KNEEL BEFORE Z/O/D/ GINGRICH!"

• “@delong: May We Please Keep Talking About Family Planning Until November?: Garry Wills Smacksdown E.J. Dionne Watch

• Rebecca Schoenkopf @delong "After buying all this Eames furniture and vacations and $2k/mo on clothes, we are poor, with just this house full of things!"

• Alexander Cocotas RT @delong: @TPM "Romney is a son of Detroit in the same way that Oedipus is a son of Laertes."

• Pragmatonomics Veritable pantheon of econ giants discuss Milton on PBS series incl: @delong @mattyglesias @bryan_caplan @amityshlaes freetochoose.net/media/broadcas…

• RT @delong: The London Economist Antiendorses Mitt Romney

• New Deal 2.0 RT @pdacosta: Citigroup saddled taxpayers with losses by lying to FHA, former employee says http://is.gd/i8lv2L

• Christana Romer and Manufacturing http://tinyurl.com/86499ae @delong

• Eric Martin RT @delong: There's Racist Dog-Whistling, and Then There's ... Racism - National - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/ziFuFO

• Roubini Global @delong on 'the first genuinely good new unemployment claims number since 2007': http://bit.ly/xbmDBY

• Mahesh P-Subramanya “Fun fact: Siri does not recognize Inagaddadavida.” via @delong

• Mike Konczal Paging Dr. Romer material RT @delong: 'The Escape Artist': Christina Romer Advised Obama To Push $1.8 Trillion Stimulus http://huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/esc…

• Dan Hirschman @delong If something happens 18,520 times in six years, it's not really a Black Swan is it?

• Felix Gilman everyone's dose of posthuman horror for the day right here RT @delong Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology

• Heath Graham Chilling phrase. Also, ping @cstross ! RT @delong: Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology http://bit.ly/z7vCB2

• Helena ! RT @delong: Hoisted from the Archives: Unleash Chiang Kai-Shek!!

• Chang Koo @delong What conservatives don't get is that just because there is a safety net, people, like acrobats, don't necessarily want to be on it.

• Mike Konczal @delong @ObsoleteDogma @MarkThoma I must direct everyone to @Econofcontempt's epic post on Cochrane from moons past: http://economicsofcontempt.blogspot.com/2010/02/mind-b…

• Mark Thoma @delong Yes there's a point -- gov/reg bad, private sector good -- but is it a good point? Wallison is involved. Enough said.

• Matt O'Brien John Cochrane: Lehman's failure didn't directly threaten other financial institutions http://bit.ly/zPe3Nk cc @delong @MarkThoma

• jontalton RT @delong: America's Cod Collapse http://slate.me/yCjecs

• Tyler Cowen: "the sluggishness of the current recovery" (paragraph 6) marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… Huh??? @delong @MarkThoma

• Ted Gayer RT @delong: @TedGayer "But not a lot of revenue". So? If we do one big good thing and lots of small stupid things, we wind up behind...

• Patti @PatCPA @delong: Republicans Go All-in Against Contraception Watch http://bit.ly/ygd6Va

• Stephen Bové RT @delong: Mind-Blowing Charts From the Senate's Income Inequal

• You know who RT @delong Santorum’s involvement with Abramoff to protect sweatshops of Saipan should get some exposure. http://bit.ly/xEr8jv

• Bruce Dust @delong: Every Time You Think the Republicans Couldn't Get Any Worse http://bit.ly/x0ua1s Tinfoil hats As required headwear party.

• Jeffrey Joslin @TheStalwart @delong Habañero antidote: milk. Or vanilla ice cream if you'd prefer a nice, cool dessert.

• Feb Benigno Piñera @delong: Robert Allen: The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

• Ellie K @ModeledBehavior Self-tweet! Why don't you listen up to @delong? He KNOWS what he's talking about. And very patient w/you btw.

Twitterstorm delong: February 12, 2012

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal James Hamilton with a quick demolishment of people like Jim Grant, who pine for a return to the gold standard. http://bit.ly/xsdPUR 26 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/yyP531 Mitch McConnell supports letting your employer prevent your insurance company from covering your BC directly. 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mmhastings Michael Hastings Watching CNN now. When people blame Nader for the Dems losing in 2000, there is only one appropriate two word response: Joe Lieberman. 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pamspaulding Pam Spaulding They tire me w/the BS. RT @owillis: cons seem to think its the "race card" to acknowledge that we live in a society with multiple races. 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas In other words, state GOP just stole Maine's caucuses for Romney. 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas Best part of Romney's "victory" in Maine? State GOP decided not to count the last 17% needing to report ... in Romney's worst 2008 counties 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood Who knew GS cared? “@GSElevator: Whitney Houston jokes are pathetic... She was awesome. And it's genuinely sad.” 11 Feb Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Like most "good news" for Romney, this looks good only in contrast to the narrowly avoided awful news. 11 Feb Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap. 11 Feb Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Romney's a lock to win the Presidency. Provided he can win the Presidency while running behind John McCain's 2008 numbers 11 Feb Retweeted by delong

• blakehounshell Blake Hounshell RT @AKaczynski1 Maine caucus results: Mitt Romney 39% (2,190 actual votes), Ron Paul 36 (1,996) Rick Santorum 18 (989) Newt Gingrich 6 (349) 11 Feb Retweeted by delong

• radleybalko radleybalko My parents went to CPAC and all I got was this racist old minstrel movie. MT @Slate More ridiculous CPAC swag--PHOTOS: http://slate.me/zAm7lz

• FrankPasquale Frank Pasquale @ @delong oh the ind. ins. mkt...recissions, pre-X conditions, daily limits, denying coverage 4 past prescriptions...those were the days 7 hours ago

• mI_kul Michael Tobechukwu @ RT @delong: RT @sam_baker: Mitt Romney endorsed an individual mandate. Can we just carve that into a stone somewhere? 9 hours ago

• MattCowgill Matt Cowgill @delong you may be interested in this post by Peter Whiteford, coauthor of the OECD report that de Rugy misrepresented http://j.mp/yTfDcU 16 hours ago

• Professionaleft Professional Left Not as much as economists RT @delong: How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/A6ruBq 20 hours ago

• tanmoy77 Tanmoy Chatterjee @delong sometimes its amusing & surprising for us from India to find controversies goin on abt contracption in #Paris_hiltons homelnd #US. 21 hours ago

Twitterstorm delong: February 11, 2012

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @rrichard09 Back in 1987 claim efficient market fell by 25% 10/19 because House ctte. sent bill to floor 10/15. Been this way a long time 1 hour ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @rrichard09 do I have to read it? Or are there highlights? I mean, this is genuinely scary... 2 hours ago

• hblodget Henry Blodget One thing clear about these News Corp arrests--no way are there 12 "bad apples" in the same newsroom. Mgt had to know read.bi/AbWOUZ 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• 7im Tim Dickinson I'd like to thank newt gingrich for finally inspiring me to pick up Rules for Radicals 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @brianbeutler @PatrickRuffini It's not a national poll or a poll of Republicans, but of "usual Republican primary voters" 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @cblatts Must you be willing to smile and nod when somebody in the TNR office says that Muslims are not worthy of 1st amendment rights? 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Can Anybody Tell Me Why the Frack Eugene Fama Thinks the U.S. Economy Was in Recession in 2006? http://bit.ly/ySFtiU 2 hours ago

• Ihnatko Andy Ihnatko My supermarket has its own sushi chef. A tray of California rolls is less than a Big Mac Value Meal. The 21st century kicks ass! 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz BREAKING: In Sign of Desperation, Romney Introduces Mischievous Dog Sidekick, Scrappy-Mitt 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman RT @DanaHoule Romney also 0-3 in caucus states where Mormons aren't 7% of state population & 25% of GOP caucus participants 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong 656 Usual Republican Primary Voters Don't Like Romney Very Much, According to Public Policy Polling http://bit.ly/wJgtip 6 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Felix Salmon on Obama Economic Policy http://bit.ly/ygCv7i 17 hours ago

• aterkel aterkel Santorum: Women shouldn't get to use insurance to cover contraception at all. http://huff.to/yjIPpW (via @samsteinhp) #cpac 10 Feb Retweeted by delong

• ezraklein Ezra Klein Bottom line, Romney's budget promises would require a 36.4% cut in all domestic spending, including SS http://wapo.st/AzgYtk 10 Feb Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Noam Scheiber on Obama’s Worst Year: 2011 http://bit.ly/y7WL6g 10 Feb

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Noahpinion: Department of "WTF?!?!" http://bit.ly/zPERHC 9 Feb

• EconOfContempt EconOfContempt The Street can always count on Peter Wallison to turn a technical dispute into an ideological war http://on.wsj.com/y9QkSd It's all he knows 9 Feb Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Signing off. Tomorrow, I hope to hear from many more old white men about what kind of contraception young women should be allowed to have. 9 Feb Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Deus Ex Macchiato » Safe by fiat http://blog.rivast.com/?p=5505 9 Feb

• normative Julian Sanchez You can fit the entire Pirate Bay on a $5 thumb drive. Good luck with those shutdowns. http://bit.ly/zCN0RX 9 Feb Retweeted by delong

• MiddleClassPoli Kenneth Thomas Even conservatives criticizing Stuart Butler's denial Heritage invented individual mandate. …eclasspoliticaleconomist.blogspot.com/2012/02/conser… #aca @delong @markos 9 Feb Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Inequality Deniers Fudge the Numbers Again -- Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/20… 9 Feb

• daudig Dave Gilson Santorum praises the Crusades. This day has officially gone medieval. http://goo.gl/Hfj1p 8 Feb Retweeted by delong

• counterparties Counterparties Thank Sarbanes-Oxley for the lack of major corporate accounting scandals in the past decade http://bit.ly/xkypWl by @eisingerj 8 Feb Retweeted by delong

• AnnieLowrey Annie Lowrey Startling, sad interview with Cardinal Egan. http://bit.ly/xRjK1u 8 Feb Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong What Jonathan Gruber Meant When He Said That Although Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" Was Impressive as Rhetoric, "... http://bit.ly/z6WRvq 8 Feb

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Why Oh Why Can't We Have Better Right Wing Think Tanks?: Stuart Butler/Heritage Foundation/Individual Mandate Edition http://bit.ly/w4PXWw 8 Feb

• irincarmon Irin Carmon Cardinal: “I don’t think we did anything wrong” on sex abuse. Hey, let's take policy cues from this leadership! http://nyti.ms/xLbUvM 8 Feb Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Moral of Romney's defeats yesterday: They don't like him. They really don't like him. In Morning Roundup: http://wapo.st/xnn6rA 8 Feb Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas RT @jesseltaylor: If I didn't know better, I'd say that the Alinsky/Soros left managed to make the GOP race about social conservatism. 7 Feb Retweeted by delong »

• rrichard09 RC Richards @ @delong maybe it will be less painful to listen to the podcast http://bit.ly/yWcdOv : ) 1 hour ago

• rrichard09 RC Richards @ @delong It's a quandary. I think he's senile. But the WSJ keeps publishing his op-eds, so he's still influential. Latter suggests reading. 1 hour ago

• hblodget Henry Blodget @ @delong They're assisting! In handcuffs! (They arrested Rebekah Brooks a hundred years ago--and still no charges) 1 hour ago

• rrichard09 RC Richards @ @delong He's made many statements about the great recession that don't make sense. His latest EconTalk interview is full of them 2 hours ago

• LDJEconomics Louis D. Johnston Prime-age men are benefiting from job growth: RT @delong Prime-Age Employment by Sex http://bit.ly/z2kL0M 2 hours ago

• SSTunic Lindsay Southwick RT @delong: Adele Stan Watches Rick Santorum http://bit.ly/Amy5cl 2 hours ago

• EmanuelDerman Emanuel Derman Definitely worth reading RT @delong: Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: Gary Gorton, Andrew Metrick :: SSRN http://bit.ly/zOLZb7 4 hours ago

• ElizabethDrewOH Elizabeth Drew @ @delong Dem leaders on Capitol Hill told White House not propose stimulus fig that even suggests $1 trillion. Said number wd grow on Hill. 9 hours ago

• HalesOysters Hale Soyster "Obama's Katrina"...not new but still relevant @delong: Felix Salmon on Obama Economic Policy http://bit.ly/ygCv7i 16 hours ago

• NobleIdeas Michael Noble Read this: RT @delong: Daniel Gross: The Strange Controversy Over Chrysler’s Ad http://bit.ly/AxE7Rp 16 hours ago

• fnj Faisal N. Jawdat @ @delong Funny you should mention that. We have a family tradition of not wanting to be dictator of Syria. And also one of better passwords. 8 Feb

Twitterstorm delong: February 6, 2012

• brettkeller Brett Keller Paul Starr's spring course on US health policy reform, looks like a great reading list >> http://goo.gl/DEINi 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias Will be ironic if GOP obstruction across 2009 produces a recovery perfectly timed for Obama's reelection. 19 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts .@DavidFrun's evisceration of Charles Murray's new book makes David Brooks' earlier praise for it look pathetic indeed. http://is.gd/dJwGbK 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @jbarro Yes. Abolish helmets and shoulder pads, and it becomes a lot safer--like rugby... 22 hours ago

• mikememoli Mike Memoli "The NFL: We're working on that whole brain injury thing." 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• lap58 Lois Palm Truth! RT @jbouie: Every single ad featuring the American auto industry should end with "Brought to you by Barack Obama." 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EmanuelDerman Emanuel Derman If you want to do anything in NYC tonight, it's easy. Only people out are women and animals, and not many of them. But I'm watching football 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion .@ModeledBehavior Yeah, but telling haters to go to my website is akin to throwing garbage over the fence for me to clean up 23 hours ago »

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ModeledBehavior .@Noahpinion Let me say that I strongly resent anybody who sends their trolls to my comment section. Such are scum.

• jotamvillero Jesús Villero RT @delong: Is the White Working Class Coming Apart?—David Frum - The Daily Beast http://bit.ly/wr9fQe (C.C. @agaviriau) 1 hour ago

• gsignoret Genevieve Signoret (I fix link.) MT @Noahkgreen: I like FrumForum joke! MT @delong: A Plea for Aspiring Economic Analysts 2 Read Footnotes http://bit.ly/xXmqcC 2 hours ago

• WIProud Solidarity Wisconsin RT @Oryx2046: RT @delong: Claim that Immediate #Austerity Right Now Is Disastrous Is No Longer Highly Contested http://bit.ly/zVTGSd #p2 7 hours ago

• kepaa41 cheryl kepaa RT @delong RT @txvoodoo: GOP thinks that's socialist now. RT @capecodgurl: It's weird to me that celebrating Detroit is choosing "sides".... 22 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong @ModeledBehavior Haters gonna hate, as they say. 5 Feb

Twitterstorm delong: February 5, 2012

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Paul Krugman Is Much too Kind: Keynesian and Pseudo-Keynesian Propositions http://bit.ly/Aqho4p 1 hour ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The quantum state cannot be interpreted as something other than a quantum state http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=822 9 hours ago

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Mitt Romney doesn't apologize. Just ask his dog. #RememberSeamus 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The "Old Keynesian" Explanation of Why the Economy Eventually Recovers on Its Own From a Slump http://bit.ly/zejHao 4 Feb

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady I just put a side-note in a draft of monday's first post for @NewInquiry. On Monday, you will understand how awesome this is. 3 Feb Retweeted by delong

• TPM Talking Points Memo Newt tells @CNN he "hasn't seen" jobs numbers yet: http://tpm.ly/yk5Wqp 3 Feb Retweeted by delong »

• Michael_MBA Michael RT @delong: The "Old Keynesian" Explanation of Why the #Economy Eventually Recovers on Its Own From a Slump http://bit.ly/zejHao 18 hours ago

• peter_c_william Peter Williams “@delong: Wall Street Journal Total Fail: Stephen Moore Takes a Weighted Average of 2% & 48% and Gets 50% http://bit.ly/w8fecZ” Outstanding! 19 hours ago

• DDSSBlog Mack Lyons @radleybalko @delong Nice to see the cops have already concocted a cover story. I doubt they actually knocked. 20 hours ago

• spottedtoad Jacob Hartog @ @delong "Postwar" is interesting about many things, and the origins of the modern European state-centered economy is certainly one of them. 4 Feb

• KagroX David Waldman RT @delong: Prince Charles right that plants really can communicate w one another t.co || Uh oh. Vegetarianism is murder too 4 Feb

• justinwolfers Justin Wolfers @ @KarenDynan @DLeonhardt @TedGayer: Ah, so you are making the right choice... Please tell @delong to do the same! 3 Feb

Twitterstorm delong: February 3, 2012

• BetseyStevenson Betsey Stevenson It's good news! RT @bethmorgan It's that "Betsey's Employment Report" time of the month. Let me get a good bottle of wine and some tissues. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• justinwolfers Justin Wolfers @ @KarenDynan @DLeonhardt @TedGayer: Ah, so you are making the right choice... Please tell @delong to do the same! 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• KarenDynan Karen Dynan @ @DLeonhardt @justinwolfers @TedGayer I'd tweet more if Justin didn't have me so busy writing a paper 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• Atrios Atrios related remember when McCain gave his convention speech in front of the wrong Walter Reed? that was excellent news for john mccain 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel ACORN. RT @StevenTDennis: Dow +95% from 6574 March '09 low, +70% since Obama signed stimulus, +60% since inauguration day 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Traveled 800 miles so far, have yet to see any non-Ron Paul candidate signs. Signs don't vote, but still 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• radleybalko radleybalko Anonymous says hacked emails show Ron Paul met "regularly" with white supremacist group A3P. pirasec.com 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• crampell Catherine Rampell @ MT @BetseyStevenson not a big increase in discouraged workers. What happened, was Census found a bunch of old people we had assumed died. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz Romney: "To those who say I'm out of touch with the average American, I say, 'Au revoir.'" 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• netw3rk netw3rk @ @Mobute All he did was knowingly publish racist material in a newsletter bearing his name. Could happen to anyone. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Mobute Mobutu Sese Seko "Name one thing I've said that's racist." holds up enormous stack of documents "No, I meant said OUT LOUD. Ahahaha, gotcha. Owned, facts." 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong How the GOP Is Resegregating the South | The Nation thenation.com/article/165976… 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion Tyler Cowen thinks what?!?! 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Hooray! First Genuinely Good Employment Report of the Recovery! http://bit.ly/xQPpbG 7 hours ago

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Mitt Romney says America is becoming like Greece, Italy or Spain. If only we became more like a Carribean island, Mitt would invest here 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• kevinddaly Kevin Daly 'One is a practicing polygamist, and he's not even the Mormon.' - Sandra Day O'Connor's comic assessment of the GOP field. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• NiemanWatchdog NiemanWatchdog Thursday’s #newsq: Just how twisted are Mitt Romney’s tax returns? Steven Rattner takes a hard look. http://bit.ly/yJzW7r 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias Related, the Milk Bar at @CowgirlCreamery is freaking me out. Ultra-violence must lurk around the corner. 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• rortybomb Mike Konczal Serious question: What is the set of problems that middle-income people have that the poor don't? 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• DavidCornDC David Corn Romney accepts CBO projection of future unemployment but not its conclusion that the stimulus lifted employment by 3m jobs. #TheTrumpMitt 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @mattyglesias It's sadism and it's masochism! It's a floor was and a dessert topping! 2 Feb

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Hudson: The Neo-Rentier Economy « Multiplier Effect http://multiplier-effect.org/?p=3476 2 Feb

• dangillmor Dan Gillmor Frozen out of both of my Google accounts; Authenticator is providing incorrect codes. This really really sucks... 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Bernanke: Congress Should Avoid Too Big Fiscal Contraction In 2013 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• dangillmor Dan Gillmor Google's 2-step authentication is great when it works, but when it doesn't you are hosed. As I am, thoroughly, at the moment.... 2 Feb Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong On Bloomberg Surveillance This Morning... http://bit.ly/zZoReh 2 Feb

• JessicaValenti Jessica Valenti Komen VP retweeted (then deleted) message saying "pro-abortion" groups should "cry me a river" http://yfrog.com/kkzyuyp via @KatieMStack 1 Feb Retweeted by delong

• BloombergRewind Bloomberg Rewind @delong thank you for joining us on @bloombergrewind w/ @mattmiller1973 last night! 1 Feb Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine ICYMI, Mitt Romney's favorability percentage in Ohio is 28%. No Republican has won without Ohio, ever 1 Feb Retweeted by delong

• justinwolfers Justin Wolfers @ @KarenDynan @DLeonhardt @TedGayer: Ah, so you are making the right choice... Please tell @delong to do the same! 1 hour ago

• nick_bunker Nick Bunker RT @delong: Everything We Know About the Long-Term Unemployed http://bit.ly/z5OIR4 2 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Obviously a smashing victory for RBC. (shakes head) Silly Keynesians... 2 hours ago

• UnlearningEcon Unlearning Economics @ @delong @Noahpinion marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… < Step 1. news! Step 2. ???? Step 3. Keynesianism sucks! 5 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @tylercowen thinks recent numbers = a win for RBC theory. I disagree: @ryanavent @delong @mattyglesias @justinwolfers 7 hours ago

• Hesiod2k11 Hesiod Theogeny @ @ezraklein @tylercowen @delong LMAO! Whatever, Tyler. 9 hours ago

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias @ @delong The issue is that it's sadism masquerading as masochism. 2 Feb

• jonst0kes Jon Stokes @ @delong "Coronary Capitalism" has a near twin in what @rickperlstein has called "E. Coli Conservatism" 1 Feb

Twitterstorm delong: February 1, 2012

• JessicaValenti Jessica Valenti Komen VP retweeted (then deleted) message saying "pro-abortion" groups should "cry me a river" yfrog.com/kkzyuyp via @KatieMStack 27 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• BloombergRewind Bloomberg Rewind @delong thank you for joining us on @bloombergrewind w/ @mattmiller1973 last night! 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta MT @thinkprogress: FL TV AD BREAKDOWN: 68% of ads were anti-Gingrich, 23% anti-Romney.1% pro-Romney 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• TPPratt T. @ @EricBoehlert Slate story should really be how Mitt Romney had to spend $15m to defeat a disgraced ex-speaker who has had marriage issues. 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor Can we just get past tonight and make the new narrative that Romney needs to spend 6:1 to get any momentum? kthxbai 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• EricBoehlert Eric Boehlert not sure i can stomach night of media spin re: Romney's winning strategy. this was how he actually won: purchased $15M in non-stop neg ads 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts A nation turns its lonely eyes to Jeb! RT @RyanLizza: Wow. Exits: 39% not satisfied with GOP candidates & 57% want someone else to jump in. 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @commiegirl1 I must foliow .@pattonoswalt immediately! 31 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @AndyHarless Are you asking why Obama bonded with Geithner? 31 Jan

• DanRiehl DanRiehl Lest u doubt romney's weak grasp of military affairs, he's the genius tht suggested Vet benefits be handled at the state level. 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @AndyHarless i want example of issue where (a) Romer and Geithner disagreed in 2009-10, (b) Romer was wrong, and (c) Obama backed Romer... 31 Jan

• AndyHarless Andy Harless A liquidity trap is a time inconsistency problem, and the solution is to appoint perversely dovish central bankers. Why didn't Obama? 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• NewYorker The New Yorker The Lizza List: Florida’s Nine Best Newtisms: http://nyr.kr/yT0l6E @RyanLizza 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• ezraklein Ezra Klein The CBO's latest Budget and Economic Outlook is out. http://1.usa.gov/z9b7QR Wonks, ASSEMBLE! 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• nickconfessore Nick Confessore Ahem. MT @jimrutenberg: "Newly" found recording of Gingrich re mandates was 4 Siemens & featured in Dec. NYT article: http://nyti.ms/yphmWz 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @joebrusuelas I'm not changing my mind. The world is gradually--at a pace of 3.5% per year--changing my mind for me... 31 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Felix Salmon on Sebastian Thrun and Udacity http://bit.ly/wm6tgE 31 Jan

• greg_ip Greg Ip It's baaack: The Phillips Curve. Wages and salaries rose 1.4% in q4 vs year ago, lowest on record, which dates back to 1981 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• parabasis Isaac Butler @ @AdamSerwer definitely headdesk. Facepalm = shock at stupidity, headdesk = hopelessness + frustration 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Cahn and Carbone: Red Families v. Blue Families http://bit.ly/zUxkzn 31 Jan

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias @ @felixsalmon I think it's curious how he and Murray of written all non-white people out of "American society." 31 Jan Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts I realize having a job and being able to live off it is, in fact, aspirational for all too many Americans. Not diminishing that. 30 Jan Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen If sources can go direct, and we need journalists for "analysis" http://bit.ly/xIZ8cp then what is their advantage over academics? @mathewi 30 Jan Retweeted by delong

• BloombergRewind Bloomberg Rewind @delong thank you for joining us on @bloombergrewind w/ @mattmiller1973 last night! 9 hours ago

• UnlearningEcon Unlearning Economics If the right ignore unemployment as structural for long enough, then it becomes as such: http://bit.ly/xQOXZ3 via @delong 11 hours ago

• BloombergRewind Bloomberg Rewind Rewind w/ @mattmiller1973 live right now on @bloombergTV with @delong and other special guests 31 Jan

• commiegirl1 Rebecca Schoenkopf Sorry @delong and @atrios. My #mvf is @pattonoswalt with 613,880 followers. MVFapp.com 31 Jan

• AndyHarless Andy Harless @ @delong My perspective is too theoretical, I suppose. I should read more about intenal Obama admin dynamics before tweeting random thoughts. 31 Jan

• AndyHarless Andy Harless @ @delong On this issue the Fed is the pot and economists are the potters. Why was a former NY Fed president allowed to hold sway? 31 Jan

• AndyHarless Andy Harless @ @delong My original thought was "Why didn't Romer insist?" Pound the table? Threaten to resign? 31 Jan

• GregAnrig Greg Anrig MT @KennethThorpe: Evidence Based Care Coordination CAN Work in Medicare bit.ly/yB5Kjv Yes, more here: http://bit.ly/wARBRQ @delong 31 Jan

• AriBerman Ari Berman Otherwise known as right vs. wrong RT @zachdcarter David Cay Johnson vs. #Austerity: HTTP://bit.ly/w836fX cc @rortybomb @delong 31 Jan

• jbplainblog Jonathan Bernstein RT @coreyrobin: @jbplainblog @daveweigel @delong I think "rootless" is the word you're looking for. 31 Jan

• joebrusuelas Joseph Brusuelas @ @delong Brad, if I am reading the preview correctly, are you changing your position on the structural vs. cyclical question? 31 Jan

• afrakt Austin Frakt @delong @cblatts Journalists should realize they're annoying potential sources for no good reason? I've tried to tell them. They don't care. 31 Jan

• pnewall Philip Newall @delong the crazy thing is that George Osborne thinks a 10-year bond yield under 2% is healthy, and no-one questions him. 31 Jan

• jbplainblog Jonathan Bernstein RT @delong: Noah Millman http://theamericanconservative.com/millman/ 30 Jan

• markdesocio Mark de Socio "@delong: An über-review of the financial crisis: The Lo down | The Economist http://economist.com/node/21542781" 30 Jan

• mysterysquid Heath Graham An ex-slave writes to his old master. Amazing. RT @delong: Letters of Note: To My Old Master HTTP://bit.ly/xwcmkr 30 Jan

• matttbastard Matthew Elliot Self-interest & income equality: Why it doesn't -- & shouldn't -- matter whether one "deserves" to be poor http://is.gd/WVR0rt h/t @delong 30 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 29, 2012

• AKaczynski1 Andrew Kaczynski Newt Gingrich in 2009 praised Obama for how much more open and transparent HCR was than 1993. Also called 4 a mandate. Retweeted by delong

• LATSeema Seema Mehta Gingrich today drove 300 miles to hold 1 event where he spoke (and 1 avail). This does not seem like wisest use of time 2 days b4 FL primary 10 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz Threatening to unfollow someone on Twitter is a threat akin to turning down a free pizza flyer on the street. 6 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Noahpinion: In which John Quiggin intellectually pulpifies Stephen Williamson noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-whi… 10 minutes ago

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz Gingrich on leaving the race: "Not unless it gets cancer." #FLPrimary 30 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Hansen's conclusion: "the slowdown of warming is likely to prove illusory, with more rapid warming appearing over the next few years." 23 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• keepitcleva Epiphany Sweet I am sorry anyone who stands in front of a confederate flag can't tell me shit, and does not have my best interest as a black woman. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• cshirky Clay Shirky Arthur Brisbane of NYT re-iterates 'fact-checking is so hard' line. http://nyti.ms/wzIqqV 100% reader opposition http://nyti.ms/xdqObR 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Hoisted from the Archives: Stephen Williamson Makes His Play for the Second Stupidest Man Alive Crown http://bit.ly/wJjtL6 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @techstepper In other news, the sun rose in the east today... 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @tylercowen Shouldn't you tweet "the sun rose in the east today" too? 2 hours ago

• daveweigel daveweigel Gingrich, laying it on thick, says Obama nixed Keystone to please "left-wing environmental extremists in San Francisco." 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MarkThoma Mark Thoma Damn -- just lost the 84 tabs I had open in Firefox. That's going to put a crimp on things...time to reconstruct... 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Atrios Atrios i just converted Mitt's late father to pastafarianism #notreally 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @adamkotsko Justice for Seamus! 3 hours ago

• markos Markos Moulitsas Oh, those funny economists who said austerity would lead to recession! http://nyti.ms/yUGWyN. Of course, they were right. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza RT @EricFehrn: Newt's problems with the truth http://mi.tt/xO8GQh 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @DanRiehl Is Jacobson the crazy person who shills for Haley Barbour? 5 hours ago

• jamespoulos James Poulos Biden FTW MT @SeanTrende: @reihansalam @BuckSexton Imagine how Dems wouldve felt in 08 if their field had been Dodd, Biden, Gravel, Kucinich 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• aterkel aterkel Great catch by @ktumulty - Gingrich says college kids too coddled. Shld work more. But in college, he refused to work. http://wapo.st/wqVqI8 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @alanbeattie @dsquareddigest There are useful Welsh tips? I thought the whole point of Welsh was that outsiders couldn't pronounce it... 6 hours ago

• EuropeanViolet Mr. Violet @ @delong it seems mental health isn't associated to any intellectual field of study... 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie @ @dsquareddigest I'd be more comfortable abt that if I thought Germany grasped the point about symmetric adjustment 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor Is it weird that the GOP race has turned into a long argument over how awesome Obama's campaign is gonna be? 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong PLoS ONE: Familial Linkage between Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Intellectual Interests plosone.org/article/info:d… 7 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Why the Republican Party as We Know It Needs to End Now: Ron Paul Story That I Knew Five Years Ago Edition http://bit.ly/yoOOoB 10 hours ago

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz BREAKING: Herman Cain Endorses Gingrich's Lifestyle 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• firedoglake Firedoglake Why Is NBC Complaining When Romney Runs a Truthful Ad? http://fdl.me/zIpTTR 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DonGonyea Don Gonyea "We knew media would be tough. We knew Obama would be tough. We didn't think our primary opponent would be so tough." Gingrich in Orlando. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• alykatzz Alyssa Katz For you Fannie/Freddie birthers out there -hello, @MikeBloomberg - Mark Zandi eviscerates the myth. http://wapo.st/xxYsoZ h/t @KatrinaNation 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz BREAKING: Romney Says He Has Created Thousands of Jobs for Swiss Bankers #FLPrimary 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• cblatts Chris Blattman More on yesterday’s cheap shot at @freakonomics and @WSJIdeasMarket http://bit.ly/xw1d8s (Blog Post) 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Democratic Individuality: Carl Schmitt and Guantanamo at 10: Todd Pierce, a Judge Advocate General officer, speaks out democratic-individuality.blogspot.com/2012/01/carl-s… 28 Jan

• JohnQuiggin JohnQuiggin James Q Wilson hasn't been keeping up - reads like it was written in 2007. The rich aren’t the problem

• DanRiehl DanRiehl If we have a nominee who is defending state run healthcare - and Romney is doing precisely that - this election is over. 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AndyHarless Andy Harless The notion of a "Great Depression" that began in 1929 is based on the US frame of reference. The timing elsewhere was a little different. 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• GeneHealy Gene Healy In today's edition of "point and laugh at Newt Gingrich": http://j.mp/Abx7nP 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Hoisted from Comments: Robert Waldmann on Principal Reduction, FHFA, and Ed DeMarco http://bit.ly/AwxcZc 28 Jan

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias Sadly for Greece, Fage is actually made in New York, otherwise they'd be enjoying an export boom. Should have patented straining stuff. 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias @ @ModeledBehavior I feel like I'm reaping much more consumer surplus from Greek yogurt than I ever did from conventional yogurt. 28 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong That the Washington Post Published and Kept on Publishing David Broder Is Reason Enough for It to Shut Down Today an... http://bit.ly/y6dKla 28 Jan

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz It only take a few minutes of a debate to feel the same way about Newt Gingrich that his ex-wives do. 27 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Econ 1: Spring 2012: U.C. Berkeley: Revised Syllabus: Course Topics http://bit.ly/yZsaPo 27 Jan

• paullewismoney Paul Lewis Always thought it strange that you motivate rich by throwing money at them, but you motivate poor by taking money away. #hester 27 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Who Is Teaching in Wheeler This Semester? http://bit.ly/ws2U4u

• FrankPasquale Frank Pasquale @ @delong That Mencken quote is also in the intro of @DougHenwood's Wall Street, p. 6 http://leftbusinessobserver.com/WSDownload.html It's truest of ketchup economists 2 hours ago

• tinyrevolution Jonathan Schwarz Serious question for @delong re delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/01/lu… How many fancy economists you know have ever read this? http://j.mp/xC6j9e @ZZEmerson 2 hours ago

• shermandorn Sherman Dorn @ @delong @markthoma 84 tabs is an abomination of nature. Leviticus: 18:10*e-10*pi. 2 hours ago

• dominiquerdr Dominique Rodier RT @delong: Social democracy and equal opportunity — Crooked Timber http://is.gd/WQ7djN #OWS #neoliberalism 7 hours ago

• EuropeanViolet Mr. Violet @ @delong it seems mental health isn't associated to any intellectual field of study... 7 hours ago

• evansorem EvanSorem @
  @brianbeutler @delong yes! You can spell R money with Romney. Coincidence - hardly from his perspective!! 27 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 27, 2012

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Carried Interest Tax Break Exposes Mitt Romney Electability Myth blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/in… 7 minutes ago

• paullewismoney Paul Lewis Always thought it strange that you motivate rich by throwing money at them, but you motivate poor by taking money away. #hester 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• davidfrum davidfrum Associates confirm to WashPo what was already obvious: Ron Paul has lied & lied about his racist newsletters http://tinyurl.com/8xc7fqg 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The Debate on Private Equity in 1989, Peter Róna addressing Jensen | Rortybomb http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the… 13 hours ago

• drgrist David Roberts Tonight in Florida, the GOP candidates weren't asked a single question about Social Security. Instead, the moon. And their wives. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler RT @prwerdel: Romney doesnt want us becoming like Europe, where they have awesome, awesome bank accounts. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• DavidCornDC David Corn Follow-up question to Newt: "Did you seek God's guidance when you okayed the impeachment crusade against Clinton while having an affair?" 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• DanRiehl DanRiehl Obama is going to slice and dice Romney on RomneyCare, no way around it. And I bet low-info primary voters won't get the importance 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel RT @mattyglesias: Florida seems like a good place to ask why unlimited entry to the USA is good for Cubans, but not for other people. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel RT @kathleenparker: Callista is an accomplished person who deserves more than our cynicism and our snark. And I mean that. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Big big laughs in press room when Gingrich says "all three of the wives" #CNNdebate 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• aterkel aterkel MT @huffposthill These guys are smart. The electoral votes they'll garner frm Puerto Rico and the Moon will really help them in the general. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• ktumulty Karen Tumulty. Please, Wolf, stop before you ask this first lady question. really. it is not too late. #cnndebate 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Good lord, did Arnold Rothstein pay Newt to throw this? #CNNdebate 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine the way Mitt Romney tells it, there wasn't a Republican primary for him to vote in back in 1992. Total lie. #CNNDebate 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte And that's been your 60 seconds of Ron Paul sounding lucid, so progressive dudes can gloat about how much the wuv him for another week. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine nobody tell Mitt Romney that Raul Castro runs Cuba now. #CNNDebate 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• LarrySabato Larry Sabato I don't believe Mitt told truth about 1992. He voted Tsongas in D POTUS primary when Bush 41 was facing Pat Buchanan, same day 3/10/92. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer Shorter Romney: I love Israel so much there's no way I'd try to keep it from self-destructing. 26 Jan Retweeted by delong »

• AriBerman Ari Berman Shorter Newt: Palestinians "invented people." Spanish "language of the ghetto." Obama "food stamp president."

• jdportes Jonathan Portes @ @delong Actually, the chart on my blog is more up-to-date (and hence gloomier) http://notthetreasuryview.blogspot.com/2012/01/recess… 26 Jan

• katforrester Katrina Forrester Great post from @delong The British Economy Is Now Doing Worse than it Did in the Great Depression http://flpbd.it/fdAN 8 hours ago

• evansorem EvanSorem @
  @brianbeutler @delong yes! You can spell R money with Romney. Coincidence - hardly from his perspective!! 9 hours ago

• Potterybarnmerc Olivia RT @delong: RT @daveweigel: Big big laughs in press room when Gingrich says "all three of the wives" #CNNdebate 26 Jan

• Lulz4l1f3 Lulz4l1f3 @ @delong Confusing VC and PE? I hate when that happens. Some of the nicest people I know are VC folks. Forget Romney, poor VC ppl. 26 Jan

• wonkinakilt Joe Colucci Supply chain: still one of the coolest (and most important) productivity improvements of recent years. via @delong http://bit.ly/yopO78 26 Jan

• Beyerstein Lindsay Beyerstein @ .@curiouscliche @moetkacik @delong In Rand-World anti-cig=antilife; anti-dexedrine=antilifelibertyandpersuitofhappiness. 25 Jan

• BizTrends FRANK FEATHER RT @delong: Udacity and the future of online universities | Felix Salmon http://reut.rs/xnz3Aq via @twttimes 25 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 26, 2012

• joshtpm Josh Marshall On press call tomorrow, Gingrich to introduce 2012 Moon Kraken 4 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias Matt Yglesias @ @MattZeitlin At least no governors of large states threatened to literally kill the guy [Bernanke]. #oops 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin Housing is super important. Housing policy and the FHFA is to. Follow @JonAPrior of @HousingWire 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• davidmwessel David Wessel Bernanke does little to discourage speculation that Fed will end up doing more asset-buying in light of infl and unemploymt outlook. 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin @ You know what this means? He turns into @NEOLIBERALHULK RT @mattyglesias Your approach to dialogue on this topic really angers me. 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• CitizenCohn Jonathan Cohn Why did Obama take so long to try populism? @NoamScheiber has a theory http://bit.ly/zuKlhh #p2 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• GingrichIdeas Newt Gingrich Ideas Three marriages only weigh as much as one on the moon. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EmanuelDerman Emanuel Derman It's a slippery slope & Google's has slid down it. http://on.wsj.com/zi7RPM. Bit like the SEC's policy: neither admit nor deny, just pay a fine. 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong John Quiggin Watches the Political Equivalent of a Tightrope-Walking Apatosaurus... http://bit.ly/w7d4FY 11 hours ago

• kjhealy Kieran Healy @ @rauchway Comte FTW. 12 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine We once went out to dinner with Mitch Daniels. He estimated the cost of dinner at $10. It cost $316. #BudgetaryGuru 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• froomkin Dan Froomkin OK, best #SOTU line: "The greatest blow 2 confidence in our economy lst yr…came from a debate... over whether US wd pay its bills or not." 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ayeletw Ayelet Waldman Just saw John Carter. It was AWESOME. Seriously. Best action movie I've seen ... maybe ever? Lush and gorgeous. Great love story. FAB!!!! 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady I just discovered that "Friends with Benefits" and "No Strings Attached" are actually different movies. #mindblown 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• bobbybaird robert p. baird David Brooks is frustrating until you understand he was sent to our planet to disprove the hypothesis of actually existing meritocracy. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• neilbarofsky Neil Barofsky If task force created either b/c DOJ hasn't done an investigation, or b/c 3 yr DOJ investigation a failure, how does Holder keep his job? 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• afrakt Austin Frakt Health care still 1/6 of economy and growing. Wouldn't know it from #sotu. 24 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion @mattyglesias Did you hear I liked being poked in the eye with a sharp stick too? 24 Jan

• Mitt Romney and Ann: the students “struggling” so much that they had to sell stock. « The Reality-Based Community 24 Jan

• Paul Krugman Is Grateful to Be Lectured on Professional Etiquette by John "Fairy Tales" Cochrane http://bit.ly/xX6tJU 24 Jan

• The Pho Bar http://thephobar.com 23 Jan

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady "Zookeeper. Lacked the subtlety and depth of feeling that made Paul Blart: Mall Cop merely soul-crushingly horrendous." 23 Jan Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Romney supporter: if Romney loses FL, then we need to take the decision out of the hands of Republican voters #PrettyMuch 23 Jan Retweeted by delong

• digby56 digby RT @Lizardoid: Brian Williams even let Santorum get away with white-washing his disgusting exploitation of the Schiavo debacle/#lowpoint 23 Jan Retweeted by delong

• Udacity - Educating the 21st Century http://udacity.com 23 Jan

• When_Im_POTUS The GOP Circus @ @SuzyKhimm @delong @BenjySarlin it's Moonifest Destiny #whenimPOTUS #newtisms 2 hours ago

• BizTrends FRANK FEATHER RT @delong: Udacity and the future of online universities | Felix Salmon http://reut.rs/xnz3Aq via @twttimes 4 hours ago

• Dodson_Realty Dodson & Associates Great comments on an article from @WSJ : Three Ways to Give Housing Market a Lift - http://awe.sm/5e1e0 Thx @delong, @appraisernews 23 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 22, 2012

• MarkThoma Mark Thoma @ @ModeledBehavior I have never resolved how important national borders should be in social welfare functions. Let me put that another way ... 54 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• MarkThoma Mark Thoma @ @ModeledBehavior Remember this? http://bit.ly/xwKzUL An iPod Has Global Value. Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It. (by Varian) 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• davidfrum davidfrum Better point: nobody who has ever worked with Gingrich thinks he should be president. Let's hear from them .... 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/wvB2WV The anti-Girl Scouts nonsense is as much about GS's religious tolerance as its openness on gender. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @adamkotsko Full employment, so people don't riot in the streets and then put the heads of the members of the State Council on pikes 4 hours ago

• fivethirtyeight Nate Silver In Florida GOP primary in 2008, Romney actually won the white vote. But lost state because Latinos went 54-14 for McCain. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz I'd think I'd rather have a President who gives people food stamps than one who runs up a $500,000 tab at Tiffany. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Sherman_Alexie Sherman Alexie Voting for Newt proves that Republicans are the Official Party of Moral Relativism. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen Wonder why @howardkurtz decided on a one-sided conversation with @thepubliceditor, giving platform to none of those who said: WTF? Strange. 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ezraklein Ezra Klein Pretty sure Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' didn't include "become president and focus on negotiating with Congress and major industries." 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• fivethirtyeight Nate Silver Also surging at Intrade: the Obama re-elect contract. Now trading at 56%, a 5-month high. http://bit.ly/e5QnYA 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman Food stamp program "has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama's time in office than during Bush's" usat.ly/AAo5S1 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ModeledBehavior Will you weigh in? In a righteous world Ta-Nehisi Coates would have a lot more wingmen than he does, but I have a day job. 9 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Kieran Healy: What Is the Best Virtual Reality Tool Ever? http://bit.ly/yRtS9D 9 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Chicago Macro: Yet Another Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Post http://bit.ly/y8yCeQ 9 hours ago

• davidfrum davidfrum In fairness, Newt did change Washington. Lobbyists' fees much higher now 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BetseyStevenson Betsey Stevenson Just when I thought that Newt couldn't get worse RT @jimtankersley: Pretty sure Newt just embraced the gold standard, by extension 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas RT @pourmecoffee: Newt: I will fight for America for better or for worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and health, LET ME REPHRASE THAT. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz A sign of Gingrich's new confidence: he just changed his Facebook status to "in an open relationship." #SCPrimary 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• T1theinfamous T1theinfamous @ @AngryBlackLady States should have freedoms and rights to tell Negroes and whores that they have no freedom or rights - Ron Paul 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall Paul saying how he's agst system that's had America going downhill 4 "70 or 80 years" hard 2 get people 2 buy been all downhill since 1932. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• blakehounshell Blake Hounshell Newt onstage with a state senator who called Obama and SC governor Nikki Haley "rag heads" 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Citing coal as an example of gov't OVER-regulation is surely the reductio ad absurdum of the GOP agenda. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriMelber Ari Melber What are your favorite #WeaponsOfTheLeft ? Minimum wage. Child labor laws. MLK Day. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriMelber Ari Melber The G.I. Bill. The Voting Rights Act. Social Security. #WeaponsOfTheLeft @markos @mharrisperry @toure @jamilsmith @anamariecox @AntDeRosa 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates Lincoln predicts Paul's Civil War stance--"Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" bit.ly/wOQYol 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AngryBlackLady Imani ABL THIS. RT @tanehisi: Compensation slave-owners=nonviolent resolution. Compensating slaves=damned reparations. #privilege // #p2 #TFY 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas 28% of South Carolina is black. 99% of GOP primary votes were white. http://fxn.ws/zdCqyI 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RBReich Robert Reich Now is the time for Republican leaders -- if there are any left -- to do the responsible thing and tell the truth about Newt Gingrich. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz Gingrich: "Tonight's great victory means I'm staying in this race for another three wives." #SCPrimary 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• CitizenCohn Jonathan Cohn Don't usually bother w/Paul, but I'm pretty sure gov't spending on health care has, in fact, expanded access #Medicare #Medicaid #SCHIP 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RBReich Robert Reich White House loves idea of Grinch heading R ticket. Increases O's odds by 20%. But also increases odds that next US prez will be insane. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• ezraklein Ezra Klein HUGE win for Obama in South Carolina tonight. And I don't mean in the Democratic primary. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz BREAKING: Stung By Defeat, Romney Considers Adultery: http://bit.ly/vbnJ4j #SCPrimary 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall Open marriage getting a second look among So. Evangelicals 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• Atrios Atrios will work for newt for $200,000K tiffany's gift card 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AndyHarless Andy Harless Based on past experience it's not clear to me why people think being a lunatic would be to Newt's disadvantage in the general election. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• matttbastard Matthew Elliot RT @HuffPostMedia: Fox News' Chris Wallace: SC exit polls say Romney's big problems are 'he's a moderate & he's a Mormon.' #scprimary 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• RP_Newsletter Ron Paul Newsletter People say government should do more to stem AIDS. Actually, it should do less and thereby help more. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• neilbarofsky Neil Barofsky @ @ddayen Yes, but also think about what could've been done for housing if Admin had used just part of the 250bn of unused TARP it let expire 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• JoeNBC Joe Scarborough CNBC reports that early polling has Newt beating Romney by 14%. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood @ @delong RP said that liberty was lost as a result of the Civil War. End of slavery meant nothing apparently - property rights took a hit. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @adamkotsko USSR didn't create new forms of economic management: copied Fordism x Taylorism x Ludendorff-Rathenau war economy. Triedbut found them sustainable only with permanent ideological mobilization plus terror. Decline into bureaucratic corruption 21 Jan

• JohnQuiggin JohnQuiggin @CoreyRobin @delong The Character of Mr. Burke http://bit.ly/wHYSp5 20 Jan Retweeted by delong

• David Graeber: The Political Metaphysics of Stupidity http://commoner.org.uk/10graeber.pdf 21 Jan

• justinwolfers Justin Wolfers Romney's economics: Smart advisers, good advice, but policies that sellout or are so-so. Smart piece by @jimtankersley: http://nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-a… 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates Ron Paul preaching the Lost Cause with the the Confederate flag in the background...But he is against the drug war. http://ow.ly/8BsUA If an unreconstructed neo-Confederate is the best your best soldier against the Drug War, you have already lost. 21 Jan Retweeted by delong

• siracusa John Siracusa By now, we all hate proprietary file formats for data, but single-vendor app platforms are commonplace and far less demonized. 20 Jan Retweeted by delong »

• AndyHarless Andy Harless IMO @delong should think twice before favorably citing David Glasner on the topic of the Savings-Investment identity. delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/01/be… 6 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

• bjandcircleit Brian J @ @AriBerman @delong But those are facts that imply Gingrich is lying or an idiot...or both. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING? 8 hours ago

• JosephFCrater Joseph Force Crater @ @JohnQuiggin @CoreyRobin @delong Cobbett was a total enemy of Paine, and then he switched sides and carried Paine's bones back to UK. 9 hours ago

• MaddogM13 MaddogM13 “@delong “@RBReich Gingrich almost destroyed the GOP in 1996. Now he's been given a second chance.”” 23 hours ago

• MaddogM13 MaddogM13 “@delong “@DanRiehl Statement by Karl Rove: There's not always an illegitimate black child around when you need one”” 21 Jan

• MaddogM13 MaddogM13 “@delong “@tanehisi It's interesting how Ron Paul argues for slave-owners being compensated, (cont) HTTP://tl.gd/ffdhph 21 Jan

• CoreyRobin corey robin @ @JohnQuiggin @delong One of Hazlitt's classic essays. Not exactly right on the facts, but almost as brilliant as his essay on hating. 21 Jan

• bjandcircleit Brian J @delong EPI: Top 10 pct have 64 pct of economy wide income gains, bottom 60 pct received only 11 pct of income gains. http://bit.ly/w7HURH 21 Jan

• bjandcircleit Brian J @delong Even Hubbard once said long-term deficit/debt deal should include tax increase on well off. http://rollingstone.com/politics/news/… 21 Jan

Twitterstorm delong; January 20, 2012

• fivethirtyeight Nate Silver Intrade now gives Romney only a 20% chance of winning SC tomorrow. (We still have him at 36%.) http://bit.ly/dIcTro 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• AKaczynski1 Andrew Kaczynski Watch Ron Pul explain the Civil War to you while standing in front of a giant Confederate flag. http://bit.ly/wCaezY 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• B_Eichengreen Barry Eichengreen Here the Motley Fool takes up an argument from "Exorbitant Privilege" about the euro's likely survival: http://tinyurl.com/7y9khbj 26 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• AKaczynski1 Andrew Kaczynski 2006 Boston Globe article mentions Mitt Romney got the idea for the individual mandate from Newt Gingrich. http://bo.st/xS6ADR 19 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts @ @ModeledBehavior Polls say otherwise. Majorities in favor of addressing CO2 & encouraging clean energy. 17 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

delong J. Bradford DeLong Gingrich Says 'Work' Is A 'Strange, Distant Concept' To Juan Williams | ThinkProgress thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/0… 2 hours ago

• Justin Wolfers: Yes, Higher Income Inequality Is Associated with Lower Intergenerational Mobility? http://bit.ly/xrPjpH 4 hours ago

• Free exchange: The hangover | The Economist http://economist.com/node/21543139 8 hours ago

• The Impact of Fiscal Policy and Consumption Smoothing http://bit.ly/xcUont 23 hours ago

• ezraklein Ezra Klein Gingrich might win SC because he slammed the media for asking about an ultimatum he gave his exwife demanding an open marriage. Huh. 19 Jan Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts So Newt, after cheating on his wife for 6 years, retroactively asked for an open marriage. That is some genuinely slimy sh*t. 19 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman Note to future presidential candidates: starting your campaign by calling Social Security a "ponzi scheme" probably isn't right way to go 19 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Could Somebody Please Create Some High-Paying Sinecures to Get Scalia and Thomas Off the Bench Immediately? http://bit.ly/xvvILG 18 Jan

• R_Thaler Richard H Thaler Biggest economic diffs if Romney is elected? 1. MUCH bigger deficits. Tax cuts + DoD surge=red ink 2. Even greater inequality. Disputable? 18 Jan Retweeted by delong

• NicholasGruen Nicholas Gruen RT @Skulled: Under SOPA, you cd get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song. 1 year more than the doctor who killed him 18 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Nervos Lecturae, Caffeinam Infinitam http://bit.ly/wLNhWd 18 Jan

• thinkprogress ThinkProgress New GOP candidate for U.S. Senate claims birth defects are God's punishment for women who previously had an abortion http://thkpr.gs/ymKVSG 17 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Hoisted from the Archives: Columbia Journalism School 701: Highly Advanced Journamalism: Mark Mitchell Utter and Com... http://bit.ly/ydQ2y4

• stegermeister Benjamin Steger @mattyglesias @delong Newt blamed his infidelity on working too hard, but he wants minorities to work harder...Thus he's against marriage? 1 hour ago

• altmandaniel Daniel Altman Fact (and perhaps axiom): No Republican presidential candidate proposes a tax reform that raises his own taxes @delong 3 hours ago

• bjandcircleit Brian J @delong Here's Justin Wolfers on Winship http://bit.ly/yM6T3A 10 hours ago

• bjandcircleit Brian J @delong Meanwhile, Jared Bernstein has experience w/ Sen. Pat Toomey and probably wishes GOP would wither away soon. http://bit.ly/wP4Ozq 10 hours ago

• ericuman Eric Umansky MT @delong: Romney’s tax plan would cut his own taxes by nearly half http://wapo.st/xHWOLH 19 Jan

• NewDeal20 New Deal 2.0 RT @delong: Capitalism and Freedom http://slate.me/xY6AFx 17 Jan

• StephenBove Stephen Bové RT @delong: We Still Need To See Romney's Tax Returns http://nyti.ms/yCAYtr [He ain't showing 'em till he HAS to.] 17 Jan

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Twitterstorm delong: January 16, 2012

• aterkel aterkel MT @davidmdrucker @ByronYork Sources say Santorum has 80-something vote lead. If it holds, Santorum, not Romney, wins Iowa. http://ow.ly/8vHPd 7 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• mark_dow Mark Dow Don't worry. Word is they are putting together bailout package for it RT @Brynjo S&P downgrades EU's bailout fund 24 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion So is it fair to say that he hasn't done his homework on the expansion of negative liberty to non-white guys? And is it fair to say he hasn't done his homework on the pace of post-1980 U.S. economic growth? 1 hour ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Heh. True. His entire post is based on a blatant misinterpretation of your use of the word "end"...sigh. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion Thanks... I think... I do have a day job. Engaging with a guy who hasn't done his political theory homework is not profitable 1 hour ago

• felixsalmon felix salmon RT @Reddy: Mike Mussa, the former IMF chief economist known for his one-liners, died Sunday. My WSJ piece: http://on.wsj.com/zfBYuH 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer Protip:If you find yourself bringing up "no Irish need apply" as a comparison to slavery, you're embarrassing yourself. http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/01/1… 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias @ @interfluidity If "it's not about Ron Paul" then why express these ideas as hostility to Ron Paul's critics? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ayeletw Ayelet Waldman On behalf of Jews everywhere, I apologize for that malignant blithering idiot, Jennifer Rubin. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky Mt. Rainier in Washington is forecast to receive up to 12 feet of snow by Wednesday night /via @breakingweather 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias People who think "negative rights" are more important than "positive" ones spend a lot of time pushing for traffic light abolition, right? 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• afrakt Austin Frakt Be sure to read final 'graph. MT @ezraklein: Sully argues that Obama's been more successful than left or right realize: http://bit.ly/zDy83U 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Econ 1: UC Berkeley: Spring 2012: Why We Read Partha Dasgupta: "Economics: A Very Short Introduction" http://bit.ly/xJNsZY 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Economics for public policy http://milescorak.com 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Econ 1: U.C. Berkeley: Spring 2012: Why We Read Milton Friedman and Rose Director Friedman, "Free to Choose" http://bit.ly/xunFqY 7 hours ago

• davidaxelrod David Axelrod Hunts called Obama "a remarkable leader," Mitt "perfectly lubricated weather vane." Now hes 4 Mitt, and decries loss of "trust" in politics? 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Reading Notes/Discussion Questions for Paul Seabright, "The Company of Strangers" http://bit.ly/xXAShT 15 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong JOLTS Data and Theories of the Great Recession http://networkedblogs.com/sIW1p 15 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong William Cohan Has Been Waiting for Decades to Take His Shot at Mitt Romney... http://bit.ly/wBVGea 15 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @afrakt gmail took my account down for "account maintenance" and kept it down for 25 days. Now back up... 14 Jan

• MrPABruno Paul Bruno For-profit colleges are unlikely to be better deals. RT @delong: For-profits vs not-for-profits | Felix Salmon blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2… 1 hour ago »

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Cochrane feels no need to do any homework, he's already passed his prelims...(ooh, stairway wit) 1 hour ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong The real issue is that you weren't saying expansion of liberty halted after 1980...you were praising Friedman... 1 hour ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Yes. It is really nuts. 1 hour ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Heh. True. His entire post is based on a blatant misinterpretation of your use of the word "end"...sigh. 1 hour ago

• dylanmatt Dylan Matthews @ @delong @reihansalam Agreed. Even only counting negative liberty, it was not on the retreat in 1980. 5 hours ago

• felixsalmon felix salmon @ @blakehounshell @delong [Mitt Romney] was short-term greedy, and didn't care about the reputational legacy he was leaving his successors. 15 Jan

• haroldpollack Harold Pollack @ @afrakt I hope you didn't send @delong credit card #.There's no such person. http://t.co/bVV23hc is elaborate scam. Perp fled to Bahamas. 14 Jan

• afrakt Austin Frakt @ @delong What on earth is gmail account maintenance? 14 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 14, 2012

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Buttonwood on Hedge Fund Returns http://bit.ly/zb6swc 4 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Discussion Questions for Milton Friedman and Rose Director Friedman, "Free to Choose" http://bit.ly/w6W62P 7 hours ago

• hofrench Howard French The book on Bain. Excellent, informant read. RT @TNYJohnCassidy: One-stop shopping: The Mittster and Bain Capital: http://nyr.kr/yVjd4l 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood @ @moetkacik a quote that inspired a rare bit of wit in the NYT: "...an opinion now held by a much smaller number of people" 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• cblatts Chris Blattman Oh @Cal. Calling me at 12am for $ for the 4th time, waking my 9m old. Does one have to ask to be on do not call list 4x? #imgivingtostanford 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Economy Currently Forecast to Grow at a 2.5%/Year Pace Between the End of Last September and the End of This March HTTP://bit.ly/wtaj32 23 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Econ 1: U.C. Berkeley: Spring 2012: T.H. Marshall: Citizenship and Social Class http://bit.ly/wMPSpk 13 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Looks Like U.C. Berkeley's bSpace system is crashing this morning--and the semester has not yet begun... http://bit.ly/wkfOAI 13 Jan

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer I confess to being a little surprised that desecrating corpses = bad is not an matter of relatively firm bipartisan consensus. 12 Jan Retweeted by delong

• EconOfContempt EconOfContempt It takes a special kind of hack to turn Cordray's appt into "Obama is trying to steer credit to his political cronies!" http://bit.ly/x8a1GW 12 Jan Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen Maybe this is just my own thing, but: The older I get the bigger denial seems as a factor in what happens in events directly in front of me. 12 Jan Retweeted by delong

• jbouie Jamelle Bouie I'm pretty sure that Santorum just suggested that Obama's recess appointments were a crime worthy of impeachment. 12 Jan Retweeted by delong »

• UnlearningEcon Unlearning Economics @ @Noahpinion @delong @bryan_caplan self interest is great, except when it leads you to question the status quo! 3 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong And who exactly is telling us to be quiet about inequality? Why, @bryan_caplan of course! ;-) http://t.co/kNZW6Mys 3 hours ago

• kelleher_ Paul Kelleher Exactly the satire I was hoping it'd be. RT @delong: Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante? | Blogs | Vanity Fair http://t.co/IWBmDsdu 17 hours ago

• pauloppu paul oppu RT @delong Start Making Sense: A critique of Bain Capital http://t.co/Y13xYlWV | Bain capitalism + managerial capitalism = now 20 hours ago

• afrakt Austin Frakt @delong The last three emails I've sent to you @econ.berkeley.edu have bounced. Odder, they're bouncing from your gmail account. Huh? 13 Jan

• juanFNDZ Juan Fernandez @ @dangillmor @delong . Mitt Romney’s extreme defense of capitalism - http://t.co/nTMFRgVR 12 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 12, 2012

• interfluidity Steve Randy Waldman "I love when economics is so squarely focused on the problem that a poor person might get away w/ something" @rortybomb http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/a-n… 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• justinwolfers Justin Wolfers Dear, @nytimes, if you want to show you're old media, include URL's that aren't actually clickable links. Like this: http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/upd… 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Dear Republicans, If you're looking to defend your future nominee Romney on the Bainkruptcy topic, we're here to help. http://pic.twitter.com/CLsFwUZb 18 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• froomkin Dan Froomkin Look, of course Art Brisbane doesn't speak for the entire NYT. But his question has a context: today's NYT is no "truth vigilante" 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• ddayen David Dayen Arthur Brisbane getting pounded for his Truth Vigilante column, but I'm going to follow his example and refuse to take sides. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Reminder: The America We Love is probably a reference to the Gilded Age. #TheMoreYouKnow 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Note to NYT Public Editor: It's a choice between fact checking candidates and helping them mislead voters: http://wapo.st/AnWgSL 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Eric Platt Misreads the Fed Transcripts... http://bit.ly/yGBDpI 5 hours ago

• neeratanden Neera Tanden Fantastic speech at CAP by WH CEA Chair Alan Krueger on causes and consequences of econ inequality; check it out: http://tinyurl.com/7gzuyp3 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• justinwolfers Justin Wolfers Don't miss @BCAppelbaum's tweets excerpting the Fed minutes from 2006. It's embarrassing how blind economics was to the looming crisis. 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Mitt Romney's "capitalism is perfect" defense is so extreme that even Sarah Palin has now condemned it: http://wapo.st/xngFAQ 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Internet debate outsource: when has David Brooks lifted a finger to promote a policy that would enhance equality of opportunity? 23 hours ago

• DanRiehl DanRiehl Romney threatened 2 excommunicate a young single mother if she dnt giv her soon-to-be-born son up 4 adoption http://tinyurl.com/7fx56gj 11 Jan Retweeted by delong

• moelane Moe Lane OK, Team Romney: whoever told Mitt Romney that it was smart to defend Bain by directly comparing it to the auto bailout? FIRE THAT PERSON. 11 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Ezra Klein Joins the "Macro Policy Through Mortgage Refinance" Caucus http://bit.ly/ysKEiO

• dangillmor Dan Gillmor Late 19th century capitalism, that is... RT @delong: Mitt Romney’s extreme defense of capitalism - http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin… 9 minutes ago

• chgreer Christopher Greer @ @cshirky @delong "Not reporting about obvious lies is a problem? Really? It's not like we're the NYT... Oh wait." 3 hours ago

• yorksranter Alex Harrowell @ @Pat_Garofalo @delong: "Should newspapers say when politicians are lying? Experts differ" 5 hours ago

• nomoremister Steve M. @ @delong He does go on a bit about vocational ed, and about giving less gov't help to seniors and more to (presumably) voke students. 22 hours ago

• jp_mcginnis JP McGinnis this is a real problem, at least of attitude MT @delong: @ModeledBehavior Center left. You guys care abt things like equality of opportunity 23 hours ago

Twitterstorm delong: January 11, 2012

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine If Romney were President, he wouldn't have laid off some GM workers. He would have laid off all the GM workers.

• crampell Catherine Rampell for 1st time since 1965, homicide falls off list of the nation’s top 15 causes of death, bumped by choking on vomit

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ModeledBehavior Yep. Center left. You guys like, care about things like equality of opportunity... 26 minutes ago

• DanRiehl DanRiehl Romney threatened 2 excommunicate a young single mother if she dnt giv her soon-to-be-born son up 4 adoption http://tinyurl.com/7fx56gj 44 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ModeledBehavior Yes, you have, I'm grateful, but you are not center-right but center-left 56 minutes ago

• ezraklein Ezra Klein Fiscal policy is under our control. Should have lots of upside risk and little downside. But the opposite is true http://bit.ly/w8RVKO 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• moelane Moe Lane OK, Team Romney: whoever told Mitt Romney that it was smart to defend Bain by directly comparing it to the auto bailout? FIRE THAT PERSON. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Ta-Nehisi Coates on Messengers: Louis Farrakhan and Ron Paul http://bit.ly/AoPshn 3 hours ago

• Not a Yahtzee - Scandinavia and the World http://satwcomic.com/not-a-yahtzee 5 hours ago

• natsecHeather Heather Hurlburt .@haroldpollack @marklgoldberg guess we picked wrong time to cut global health funding. totally drug-resistant TB http://ht.ly/8pEtC 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Vultures and other carrion-eaters play an important role in a well-balanced ecosystem. #slatepitches 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Ron Paul Claims to Be "Heel-Nibbling". Rick Santorum Calls for States to Outlaw Heel-Nibbling

• kdrum Kevin Drum I will, until he fesses up about the newsletters. RT @ktumulty: No one will ever accuse #ronpaul of being inauthentic. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall Funny thing is many Republicans have genuinely hard time coming to grips w/fact they lost the country's AAA credit rating. #sad 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @MikeElk Yglesias writes about 10 posts a day. In his last years at TNR Weisberg was paying Kaus $300/post. Figure Yglesias makes $750K/year 21 hours ago

• CitizenCohn Jonathan Cohn Romney: Elect me or the country will get generous social insurance programs like they have in Europe & I brought to Massachusetts #GOP2012 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall So awesome listening to Ron Paul talk about the disaster of fiat money. give me small leather bags of salt. thats currency i can believe in 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Jon Gruber at Escapist Comics, talking about his graphic novel "Heaalth Care Reform" http://pic.twitter.com/Ye8ZyZjC 22 hours ago

• davidmwessel David Wessel Recipe for QE3? SF Fed's Williams expects inflation under 1½ % this year and next, down from about 2½% in 2011. http://is.gd/Q6zUXj 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Santorum: Iran’s Scary Shi’ite Theology Warrants U.S. Attack | AlterNet http://alternet.org/newsandviews/a…’s_scary_shi’ite_theology_warrants_u.s._attack/ 22 hours ago

• neilbarofsky Neil Barofsky Just 15k net new permanent modifications for HAMP last month. #Fail

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Perry compares Bain to vultures. In response, Romney notes that vultures do a job that has to be done before being ushered away by aides 10 Jan Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias What do we want? Large scale GSE-facilitate mortgage refinancing! When do we want it? Now!

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Like to think we @ MB have used our meager voices 2 say some of what @delong says center right should "Start by saying"

• IcelandicEcon Olafur Margeirsson #relief you're joking, thought for a second you were serious RT @delong No, Austerity Is Not Contractionary http://bit.ly/ABuD9I 6 hours ago

• sam_baker sam Hopefully CBO, but point stands MT @delong: Raising the Medicare Age Is a Bad Idea: Problem with the Media or CBO http://bit.ly/yT4TjF 7 hours ago

• rootless_e rootless .@delong Even the "liberal" economists give a lot more credence to Hayek's crackpot feudalism than to Galbraith? Why ? 9 hours ago

• rootless_e rootless .@delong Why is it that J.K. Galbraith's ideas have been completely written out of econ discussion ? tinyurl.com/6wgwr4f 9 hours ago

• jontalton jontalton RT @delong: The Crisis We Should Have Had http://slate.me/AlJlw6 20 hours ago

Twitterstorm delong: January 10, 2012

• joshtpm Josh Marshall Funny thing is many Republicans have genuinely hard time coming to grips w/fact they lost the country's AAA credit rating. #sad 41 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @MikeElk Yglesias writes about 10 posts a day. In his last years at TNR Weisberg wa paying Kaus $300/post. Figure Yglesias makes $750K/year 6 minutes ago

• CitizenCohn Jonathan Cohn Romney: Elect me or the country will get generous social insurance programs like they have in Europe & I brought to Massachusetts #GOP2012 22 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor Ron Paul talks about heel-nibbling, which I'm pretty sure Rick Santorum would let states outlaw. 19 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall So awesome listening to Ron Paul talk about the disaster of fiat money. give me small leather bags of salt. thats currency i can believe in 14 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas Splice in Paul's "bring them home" stuff w/ Perry's "vulture capitalism" thing, and quite a bit of the Dem agenda is being promoted tonight 12 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Jon Gruber at Escapist Comics, talking about his graphic novel "Heaalth Care Reform" http://pic.twitter.com/Ye8ZyZjC 1 hour ago

• altmandaniel Daniel Altman CNN says #NH voters who valued "strong moral character" most went for Mr. Bigotry 2012 himself, #RonPaul. #sadcommentary #WTFGOP 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• davidmwessel David Wessel Recipe for QE3? SF Fed's Williams expects inflation under 1½ % this year and next, down from about 2½% in 2011. http://is.gd/Q6zUXj 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• TheMoneyIllusion » The Special Theory of Employment, Interest and Money http://themoneyillusion.com/?p=12567 1 hour ago

• radleybalko radleybalko I've criticized him in the past, but many of these new, last-minute Barbour pardons are admirable. I fear there will be a backlash, though. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• neilbarofsky Neil Barofsky Just 15k net new permanent modifications for HAMP last month. #Fail 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Perry compares Bain to vultures. In response, Romney notes that vultures do a job that has to be done before being ushered away by aides 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias What do we want? Large scale GSE-facilitate mortgage refinancing! When do we want it? Now! http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4… 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Fed's Williams says central bank must use all tools to deal with #jobs "calamity" 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EconOfContempt EconOfContempt Here's my take on Bill Daley's tenure as White House COS: I have no clue, b/c I didn't work in the WH. And neither did 99% of ppl commenting 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DLeonhardt David Leonhardt And my old column on the inability of most people to fire their insurers: http://nyti.ms/6WSt2 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• politicoroger Roger Simon Newt in NH tonight describes himself as "middle-class citizen." With $500,000 line of credit at Tiffany like all middle-class citizens. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Perhaps we were too vague. All AZ required was a notorized declaration of candidacy. 23 Republicans did that. Huntsman didn't get a notary 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine Viva DemocratMachine Jon Huntsman is due to be the next GOP flavor. Why? he just missed qualifying for the ballot in AZ. Couldn't get a notarized signature. Rly 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias "seventy-two per cent of core large-cap mutual funds had underperformed their market indexes" newyorker.com/talk/financial… 9 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion It is interesting how strong belief that ranting, trash-talking emperors like Lucas, Fama, and Cochrane have clothes is...

• chgreer Christopher Greer @ @pandagon @delong What does heel-nibbling even mean? Is this some sort of Texas thing? #totallynotsarcastic 6 minutes ago

• altmandaniel Daniel Altman RT @viewofadam - Ironically, according to projections, Rick Perry is the 1%. HT @delong 1 hour ago

• DavidOser David Oser via @delong http://themoneyillusion.com/?p=12567 & comments - a) my head hurts b) tempted to call for the #logicalpositivists 1 hour ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong You and Henry Blodget just made me watch an elephant pee. CURSE YOU 9 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 9, 2012

• mattyglesias mattyglesias "seventy-two per cent of core large-cap mutual funds had underperformed their market indexes" newyorker.com/talk/financial… 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The Bowles-Simpson Reputational Bet... http://bit.ly/yFdMtk 1 hour ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Noahpinion It is interesting how strong belief that ranting, trash-talking emperors like Lucas, Fama, and Cochrane must have clothes is... 1 hour ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong John Quiggin: Conservatives and Reactionaries http://bit.ly/wlSBwv 7 hours ago

• VanessaValenti Vanessa Valenti Horrid: Quadriplegic undocumented immigrant dies in Mexico after being deported from hospital http://ow.ly/8n7hJ via @kthalps 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Western U.S. Precipitation Since July... http://bit.ly/yoJVYK 8 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Noahpinion: Paul Krugman and the polemical style of blogging http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/paul-k… 12 hours ago

• Atrios Atrios almost succumbed to a 'someone on the internet is wrong' moment. step away from the keyboard...

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @delong: Note that Kantoos' error about Cochrane was the same as my error about Lucas... 7 hours ago

• rcmedb JJ Alexander @delong As world sees: US Republican race have shown such a basic lack of knowledge they make George Bush look like Einstein. Der Speigle 15 hours ago

• aaronecarroll Aaron E. Carroll @ @matthewstoller @delong Give it a week. There will be a snow storm and news will cover it as evidence global warming is a fraud. 8 Jan

• HEALTH_NOTES Alec Vachon, Ph.D. RT @delong: Medicare and Segregation http://jongeeting.net/?p=4277 7 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 8, 2012

• Atrios Atrios almost succumbed to a 'someone on the internet is wrong' moment. step away from the keyboard... 20 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• matthewstoller Matt Stoller When it's 60 degrees in January in New York, I can't hell but hear ominous horror movie music in the background. 7 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Ryan Avent: The Logic of Fed Policy: "PROFIT!!" Edition http://bit.ly/zx5ArY 7 hours ago

• AngryBlahLady Imani ABL “I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. I accepted [Bush's] judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country.” -@ggreenwald #p2 #TFY 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• joshgreenman Josh Greenman Romney: I haven't seen these ads, but the one I saw and remember perfectly was awesome. 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbplainblog Jonathan Bernstein RT @badler: Romney claims federal anti-poverty programs have "massive overhead." this is demonstrably false 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbplainblog Jonathan Bernstein RT @adamserwer: Paul on King in his newsletter: “replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.” 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DavidCornDC David Corn But guess what? Paul's newletters said a lot of nasty stuff about MLK. Did he ask anyone to cut that out? #NHdebate #fitn 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel I worried that I was wasting some time on this silly Roemer thing, and then my Twitter feed filled up with RuPaul items. So, no. 7 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @EmanuelDerman @justinwolfers You never read Kevin Hassett's column on how we should bomb CERN, did you? 7 Jan

• AKaczynski1 Andrew Kaczynski A section of Rick #Santorum's 2002 Senate website is entitled "Internet Rumors about Bonsai Kittens," not a joke. http://bit.ly/xUfCMl 7 Jan Retweeted by delong

• cstross Charles Stross XDR-TB was bad enough. Now we've got a totally drug-resistant form of TB ... 7 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @TheStalwart The important thing is: do people who perform Orwellian surgical amnesia on their own past record deserve platforms? (2/2) 6 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @TheStalwart Tom Friedman's retconning of "what we needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, and basically saying... Well, Suck. On. This" to "After 9/11, the idea of helping to change the context of Arab politics and address the root seemed to me to be a legitimate strategic choice" was absolutely monstrous, and will be monstrous. People who perform Orwellian surgical amnesia like that on themselves don't deserve platforms (5/5) 6 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @afrakt Shouldn't that be "Republican economists"? None of them would sign the same brief for a Mass. Sup. Court suit against RomneyCare... 6 Jan

• mattyglesias mattyglesias LOL. David Brooks thinks Rick Santorum has a "political philosophy." 6 Jan Retweeted by delong

• rortybomb Mike Konczal @ @BetseyStevenson Wow. Looking at that year-over-year it's even worse. Workers with a high-school degree lost jobs, no-HS minimal gains. 6 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Ed Glasner Despairs About the Thought of Our Central Bankers http://bit.ly/xRwwmL 6 Jan

• ezraklein Ezra Klein My guess: About half of politicians who say they oppose gay marriage privately support it. Maybe more than half. http://slate.me/xPBbHs 5 Jan Retweeted by delong

• ayeletw Ayelet Waldman In my genetic termination support group there were pro-life women. Because it's only an abortion when someone else has it. 5 Jan Retweeted by delong

• matthewstoller Matt Stoller The CFPB has been trying to tell students what they owe and working to simplify mortgage forms. Just like Stalin. http://1.usa.gov/zxhWmU 5 Jan Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias The quantity of good ideas undercut by fatalism a couple levels down from the top in the Obama administration is amazing. 5 Jan Retweeted by delong

• HEALTH_NOTES Alec Vachon, Ph.D. RT @delong: Medicare and Segregation http://jongeeting.net/?p=4277 7 Jan

• theglipper Greg Lipper Ugh. #Ugh RT @delong First cases of totally drug resistant TB in India, one dead - Mumbai - DNA dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_… 7 Jan

• Hohfeld hohFeld @ #UweReinhardt RT @delong Uwe E. Reinhardt: What Price Pluralism in Health Insurance? http://tinyurl.com/7vjfs2z #uppers #ows #ObamaCare 7 Jan

• DavidOser David Oser Hat tip @delong #StructuralUnemployment zombies back again (sigh) is.gd/VVgq5p Triumph of anecdote over data 7 Jan

• ledbetreuters James Ledbetter @ @delong Given the rarity and disincentives for pundits to say "I was wrong," I'd call Friedman's revisionism egregious but not unique. 6 Jan

• akammer Anthony Kammer MT @delong "do people who perform Orwellian surgical amnesia on their own past record deserve platforms?" http://bit.ly/zz08Bv 6 Jan

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood @delong @mattyglesias ...This season courier hiring was unusually strong, so it surprised the adjustment. It will probably reverse in Jan. 6 Jan

• mattyglesias mattyglesias @ @delong I stop after LOLing and only revisited the tab by accident. 6 Jan

• JerAHolden Jeremy Holden GOP's economic sabotage has been "a catastrophe for the nation" (via @delong) http://bit.ly/wbLULP 6 Jan

Twitterstorm delong: January 4, 2011

• ezraklein Ezra Klein RT @joshtpm: @ezraklein we've reorganized as a light manufacturing corporation 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• ezraklein Ezra Klein Santorum's idea to zero out taxes on all manufacturing firms doesn't seem fully thought through. #whatwouldmiltonfriedmansay? 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @
  @afrakt In the old days, there would be a powerful coterie of centrist dealmakng senators to provide cover for technocrats. 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @DanRiehl @jaketapper Well, then, I may have to regard Santorum as a man. Although it's not Social Security that's the problem, it's Medicar 2 hours ago

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Will Santorum have the guts to say "ObamneyCare"? 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Atrios Atrios in related complaints, it's clear the people at twitter don't use twitter 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @bloomfield3010 @BetseyStevenson Public option was supposed to let people vote with their feet for what they wanted 3 hours ago

• TiparilloPDX TiparilloPDX @ One of reasons I left Berkeley for Portland RT @delong: Is Ashby and college this much of a parking lot 24/7? http://bit.ly/wut4W7 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• asaxena Arvind Saxena @ @delong pedestrians crossing, cars have to wait, tho neither street can handle amt of traffic. otoh, good reason to stop at espresso roma 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ModeledBehavior now looks to have an enormous unused debt capacity, and we should use it to return the world to full employment (3/3) 3 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ModeledBehavior room to do what you need to do if you get into a depression liquidity trap, and he would also say that the U.S right (2/3) 3 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ModeledBehavior I think Paul would say that you ought to have a falling debt to GDP ratio in the boom so that you have fiscal running (1/3) 3 hours ago

• afrakt Austin Frakt Krugman’s update is interesting and relevant to a serious issue that's been on my mind. | The Nonsense Problem - http://j.mp/wdvpAc 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @afrakt A weblog is not a dinner party. 3 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Is Ashby and college this much of a parking lot 24/7? http://bit.ly/wut4W7 3 hours ago

• petersuderman Peter Suderman "Rather than compassionate conservatism, Santorum has fashioned something new: a mean-spirited, intolerant liberalism" http://bit.ly/A32lii 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• davidaxelrod David Axelrod Three years ago, the President made a gutsy call, and the right one, to save the American auto industry and 1.4m jobs. http://apne.ws/yV1MdW 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @TheStalwart @ModeledBehavior nsistent to say cyclical deficits good, structural deficits bad. It isn't. Tabarrok knows it (2/2) 4 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @TheStalwart @ModeledBehavior Seems to me Tabarrok's initial "Krugman v. Krugman" was a very bad thing: tried to claim that it was inc (1/2) 4 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @BetseyStevenson Cheer up! If Obama had taken Cutler's advice and kept mandate out, Romney would now be pushing for one on responsibility gr 5 hours ago

• BetseyStevenson Betsey Stevenson I'm still trying to understand how supporting a healthcare mandate used to make me a conservative & now makes me a liberal. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @TheStalwart This calls for popcorn.... No, this calls for MOOSE MUNCH!! harryanddavid.com/gifts/store/it… 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @Glennobot @MarkAdomanis I liked it when you could get expelled from the Senate if your wife hugged you in public in a thunderstorm 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @TheStalwart I will pray for you... 5 hours ago

• EricBoehlert Eric Boehlert oh yeah, and that awesomely infamous Romney op-ed: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"; http://nyti.ms/xg3vzy #onefortheages 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• cstross Charles Stross At pub, to kill brain cells that know about PARASITIC BRAIN FLIES THAT DECAPITATE FROM WITHIN like things from an early Iain Banks novel. 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/yJcgGk "While the Republican Party has certainly moved to the right, I do think most Republicans still like dating." 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman Barney Frank compares GOP complaints about Obama recess appointment to arsonists who yell at people escaping burning buildings 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• thinkprogress ThinkProgress Feminists are "undermining the traditional family + convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness" -- Santorum 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias If only Obama brought the same spirit of creative lawyering to large denomination platinum coins that he has for recess appointments. 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ddayen David Dayen Hey, remember when Santorum supporters chanted "hey hey ho ho Social Security has got to go" at one of his events? youtube.com/watch?v=Mj1XT1… 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• anamariecox Ana Marie Cox I love pundits scrambling to validate Santorum as if they always knew. The first rule of Game Change is that there is no Game Change. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ddayen David Dayen Remember when Santorum held a press conference to say he found the WMD in Iraq in 06? 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer Santorum: Government can't do things better for us than we can do for ourselves. // Except for tell us who to marry, when to have kids ect. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DanRiehl DanRiehl RT @jaketapper: Speaker at Santorum HQ says the winner traditionally speaks last & rt now both Romney +Santorum waiting 4 other guy 2 speak 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @EmanuelDerman Surely if U.S. collapses you want to be holding not gold but a mix of bottled water, sewing needles, and ammunition? #madmax 23 hours ago

• DanaHoule Dana Houle Guy who went on Greek cruise & ignored Iowa for months extolling virtues of retail campaigning in Iowa. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Mobute Mobutu Sese Seko Newt Gingrich celebrating his 4th place finish on the dais with all of his wives. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• anamariecox Ana Marie Cox RT @pourmecoffee: Ron Paul actually said he's "looking forward to day we can say we're all Austrians now." Sings "Edelweiss," drops mic. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EWErickson Erick Erickson Friend at a Super Caucus says a lot of new voters who look like "Occupy" types have shown up to register and support Paul. #anecdoteonly 3 Jan Retweeted by delong

• EWErickson Erick Erickson Will the media finally pay attention that Republican voters do not want Mitt Romney? In IA he only wins the wealthy rich according to exits 3 Jan Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates Whaa? “@RP_Newsletter Always wipe the toilet seat with a soapy paper towel. Do not put the towel in the toilet, but in a bag to be burned.”

• leighblue Leigh Caldwell The one where you and @delong agreed on a deficit-financed $3tr stimulus. RT @EconTalker What was your favorite episode of EconTalk in 2011? 43 minutes ago

• afrakt Austin Frakt @ @delong A weblog is the most public thing most academics (or anyone) can do. The high leverage poses some risk in this partisan climate. 2 hours ago

• TiparilloPDX TiparilloPDX @ One of reasons I left Berkeley for Portland RT @delong: Is Ashby and college this much of a parking lot 24/7? bit.ly/wut4W7 3 hours ago

• defcon_5 defcon_5 RT @delong: A telling sign: Scott Brown comes out in support of Cordray recess appointment | WashPo http://wapo.st/wLz8nF cc: @stefcutter 4 hours ago

• Glennobot Glennobot @ Ah, those were the days RT @delong @MarkAdomanis I liked it when u could get expelled from Senate if ur wife hugged u in public in t'storm 4 hours ago

• fnj Faisal N. Jawdat Via @delong: How Blue Shield Spends Its Money http://is.gd/q18u2R 5 hours ago

• SSTunic Lindsay Southwick The Economist is desperate for Republicans to be Serious http://bit.ly/zgIMfl (via @delong) 7 hours ago

• EricaGrieder EricaGrieder @ @jneeley78 @delong Not in my view, but it was taken that way by some observers--sincerely, I think. 8 hours ago

• jneeley78 Josiah Neeley @ @EricaGrieder @delong Is there any reason to think "treat him pretty ugly" is a reference to lynching? #justasking 8 hours ago

• EricaGrieder EricaGrieder @ @delong Perry has many faults, and I disagree with him on a lot, but I don't think he's racist or esp glib about race. http://usat.ly/tmjG9U 8 hours ago

• EricaGrieder EricaGrieder @ @delong No. I'm saying that interpretation implies Perry is a crypto-confederate redneck who jokes about lynching, which I think is unfair. 8 hours ago

• lecreative Amy E. Buttell RT @NewDeal20: RT @delong: How to Save the Global Economy: Whip Up Inflation Now by Menzie Chinn & Jeffry Frieden http://bit.ly/y2poGW #gfc2 10 hours ago

• malinian Malin Hu .@delong is giving a seminar at the IMF Institute on 20 January, but of course I'll be in China then. D; 13 hours ago

• SteveMcBarks SteveMcBarks @ @delong It is actually Magenta. Another liberal lie exposed!!!! 3 Jan

• JosephFCrater Joseph Force Crater @ @maliniw90th @delong could have been more brutal and more direct. The idea that Sanford & Son caused the crash and Wall St did not is racial 3 Jan

• nadeemhaque Nadeem Haque “@delong: M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All http://forbes.com/sites/jamesmar…”. 3 Jan »

Twitterstorm delong: January 3, 2011

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The 2012 recovery: handle with care http://ft.com/cms/s/0/a1a5ee… 9 minutes ago

• JamilSmith Jamil Smith "…many of the Republicans are more interested in just defeating Barack Obama than they are in rebuilding America." http://goo.gl/OxsXo 52 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• JamilSmith Jamil Smith That last tweet saying Republicans are more interested in defeating Obama than rebuilding America…that wasn't me, folks. That was Huckabee. 46 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• davidmwessel David Wessel RT @crampell: TSA: Can't bring tub of cream cheese -- more than 3 oz -- through security unless spread on bagel. http://bit.ly/xDyF6l 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• benjaminjriley Benjamin Riley @ @delong And, just for the record, three of the five families profiled in Waiting for Superman are not black. Just bizarre. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• elise_foley Elise Foley Santorum just made a joke about how his wife could be mistake for his daughter, same joke as Romney. Not sure why that's a popular line. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• sarahkliff Sarah Kliff Things that are not Iowa: 5 health reform dates to watch in 2012. http://wapo.st/yzPYme 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong interfluidity » Why is finance so complex? http://interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html 7 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Metzler: Wealth, Saving, and the Rate of Interest http://jstor.org/pss/1825743 7 hours ago

• lizcgoodwin Liz Goodwin Santorum says he was talking about "Waiting for Superman" when he said he doesn't want to give money to black people http://bit.ly/uI9du8 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman RT @thinkprogress SOURCE: Obama expected to make recess appointment today or tmrw of Rich Cordray to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Mitt introduces the family. Unsure why he keeps mentioning that Ann was 14 when they met http://pic.twitter.com/EdDsajhh 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• marcoarment Marco Arment I guess I should be honored that so many people at so many companies are burning so much VC money to try to take over Instapaper's market. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @jbarro And in counterfactual BarroWorld, liberals then condemn the RomneyMandate as a regressive tax on working Americans... 22 hours ago

• jbarro Josh Barro If Obama had kept his campaign promise on the mandate, Romney would be touting the mandate as a conservative measure missing from PPACA 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ayeletw Ayelet Waldman MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber at Escapist Comics Jan 10 at Noon to talk about “Health Care Reform,” his graphic novel that explains it all. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Santorum on contraception: "It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Paul Krugman: Deficits, Debts, Confidence, Interest Rates, and Macroeconomics: A Smackdown of Alex Tabarrok http://bit.ly/th0ZZ9 2 Jan

• rortybomb Mike Konczal Excellent response, worth the read. rt @CoreyRobin devastating response from @jacobinmag to Lilla's review of my book. http://tinyurl.com/8yvuph8 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent .@rickklein If that's what Romney was ridiculing, surely his equivocating on global warming is more worthy of mockery http://bo.st/tHjOlg 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• rortybomb Mike Konczal By Goldin/Katz mt @JustinWolfers similar students at for-profit schools: fewer jobs, lower earnings, more debt&defaults http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17710 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Will Wilkinson Has the Last Word on Ron Paul: "He Knew What He Was Doing, [and] He Chose to Do It" http://bit.ly/w4u3bx 2 Jan

• calculatedrisk Bill McBride Comments on the Housing Vacancies and Homeownership Survey http://goo.gl/fb/kUmwa 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/w4hOMP Man, the number of "I believe" statements Paul has to claim were written w/out his knowledge are infinite, it seems. 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer Wonder why RT @BenjySarlin: Gingrich, asked about means testing entitlements, instead race baits Eric Holder http://bit.ly/uGbEok 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• Nouriel Nouriel Roubini 10 out of 11 empirical/econometric models of the 2008-2010 US fiscal stimulus show a significant positive multiplier & effect on GDP & jobs 2 Jan Retweeted by delong

• donnabrazile Donna Brazile Mitt Romney is willing to say anything to get elected. I’m sure he would tell you that himself… if he thought it would get him elected. 1 Jan Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates "I didn't write them, I didn't read them. But I'm sorry someone, somewhere did." 1 Jan Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates "Lincoln was a war criminal--but let me qualify that by saying I'm against the drug war." #imwithheroin 1 Jan Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates Ron Paul slams the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It's OK because he's against the drug war. http://huff.to/tXzaZ7 1 Jan Retweeted by delong

• RT @jbplainblog: RT @tanehisi: For the record "I'm against the drug war" has officially replaced "I have a black friend." 1 Jan

• sarahkliff Sarah Kliff My story in tmw's @washingtonpost: How Congress quietly defunded the health reform law's consumer assistance program. http://wapo.st/uIGrdF 1 Jan Retweeted by delong

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler Has anyone ever died in a horrendous bucket kicking accident? 1 Jan Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @moetkacik To Marty Peretz (and to nearly everybody else) you are a juiceboxer. Embrace your Capri Sun Nature! 1 Jan

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @exiledonline @PlutocracyFiles All I know is: when a dictator shuts down all media he can, fear the worst...

• JeromePandell Jerome C. Pandell Thanks @whitehouse + Pres. @BarackObama | @ConfirmCordray RT @delong ▶ White House Concludes It Can Appoint Cordray on.wsj.com/AkuVa7 5 minutes ago

• JosephFCrater Joseph Force Crater @ @maliniw90th @delong could have been more brutal and more direct. The idea that Sanford & Son caused the crash and Wall St did not is racial 1 hour ago

• mpwdoyle Mike Doyle A million times this. RT: @delong: David Frum on the Personal Irresponsibility of Ron Paul http://bit.ly/wURXSH 3 hours ago

• benjaminjriley Benjamin Riley @ @delong And, just for the record, three of the five families profiled in Waiting for Superman are not black. Just bizarre. 3 hours ago

• lancegable Lance Gable Zoinks! A Health Care Reform comic book! http://ow.ly/8gR9V #healthcarereform #PPACA (h/t @delong) 6 hours ago

• umairh umair haque Why we real balance sheets, Betterness readers. RT @delong: Brad DeLong: The Financialization of the American Economy http://bit.ly/soElgI 6 hours ago

• CarlosGuevaraJ Carlos Guevara J RT @delong: RT @noamscheiber: Funny, I used to write blog items to think through pieces. Now I tweet to think through blog items. 23 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Ouch!! Maybe I just have too much faith in professors as a group. Don't wanna believe they'd join a hermetic cult like Chicago... 2 Jan

• burtonad Andrew Burton Wowser. Superbly executed double dog whistle response from Newt Gingrich: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/3336 (h/t @Delong) #anastymanatthepeakofhisgame 2 Jan

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong I know I should stop trying to give Chicago people benefit of the doubt but I just feel like a mean bad person... 2 Jan

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Ah. No, no, you're 100% right. There were much more damning quotes in Posner's piece than the one you used!! 2 Jan

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @delong I think Posner may have just been accusing people of making overstated claims, not of intellectual dishonesty/corruption... 2 Jan

• stinkingopinion Stinky O @ @NatashaChart @delong @LOLGOP President Romney is going to shake up the establishment and fight against the 1%! 1 Jan

• NatashaChart NatashaChart RT @delong: Digby on Why We Vote Against Ron Paul http://bit.ly/u7DpG1 #ows 1 Jan

• stuxnet420 Stuxnet News Feed

twitter RT @delong: How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History | Threat Level... http://dlvr.it/135ygJ

1 Jan »

• moetkacik moe tkacik @ @JosephFCrater @delong all the juiceboxers are insufferable "foodies"; I stay away.

Twitterstorm delong: December 31, 2011

• polit2k Tim Coldwell MT @delong: Failing Up With Joshua Foust: Meet The Evil Genius Massacre-Denier Who Shills For War Profiteers exiledonline.com/failing-up-wit… #browsings 14 minutes ago

• leighblue Leigh Caldwell Brad @Delong has obviously started the New Year drinks early, as he's tweeting Daily Mail articles about chimpanzees. Or is it subtle satire 4 hours ago

• chgreer Christopher Greer @ @dylanmatt @delong It's sad that the person talking about changing some policies--e.g. foreign wars--is also such a racist kook.

• EricBoehlert Eric Boehlert what a sad, ugly attempt by @powerlineblog to smear Paul Krugman w/ antisemitism; http://bit.ly/tmVjyV #juststop #tcot 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tcarmody Tim Carmody "No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned… nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers" - 1215 A.D. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin I've never had an ex boyfriend, but getting all these texts from Obama et al is pretty much the same thing, no? 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BetseyStevenson Betsey Stevenson Unbelievably true & an incredible waste MT: @mattyglesias: Everything about using health insurance in America is exhausting & horrible. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• cstross Charles Stross The freemium Sims on iPad tries to make you pay real money for simoleons. Why bother? Enslaving your Sims is cheaper and far more fun! 59 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• emptywheel emptywheel So report saying you're Bangladeshi when you're really Yemeni? Too bad! So sad! DC Circuit says that's still enough to hold you indefinitely 54 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel @ @TheStalwart @TPCarney I think it'll be Romney, Paul, Santorum, and... uh... uh... oops. 34 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn is Nonsense « Calbuzz http://t.co/s55Gp8r7 4 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ATabarrok Congratulations. You are the very first defender of David Gordon. 4 hours ago

• jab27 John B. @ @mark_dow Not to mention there wasn't anything "secret" about the liquidity swaps. That's almost more disingenuous than using "bailout" IMHO 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• New Economic Perspectives: Fannie and Freddie Fantasies http://t.co/GKxGj02H 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Mark Thoma Sends us to William Black on Peter Wallison's Fake Narrative on the Financial Crisis http://bit.ly/vPHy4V 5 hours ago

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Bingo. I only care about the Wilshire. RT @StockSage1: Best way to prove that you are old media/WS 1.0.....keep quoting in Dow terms

Twitterstorm delong: December 29, 2011

• samdolnick Sam Dolnick There will be no Friday in Samoa. They're switching time zones; go to bed on Thurs and wake up on Saturday. #jealous? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates I think at this point it really is safe to say that @ronpaul is just lying. Not that anyone who would vote for him much cares... 56 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• Investors Are More Confident in Countries That Can Devalue and Inflate http://bit.ly/sTeR8b 5 hours ago

• joshtpm Josh Marshall Live from the fever swamp: I've just been attacked on Ron Paul's behalf by a guy with the twitter handle "Lil' Eichmann" #awesome 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Please tell me a clever hacker from The Weekly Standard composed this week's Nation cover as a parody. 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! "I can't say I'll kill Big Bird, for pete's sake, i'm running for President" - Mitt Romney, first draft of "Sell Sesame Street" speech 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• abumuqawama Andrew Exum "Also, 'Maureen Dowd' is satire intended for distribution internal to the NYT. We deeply regret its accidental, twice-weekly publication." 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• pdacosta Pedro da Costa What's the opposite of a vigilante? 10-year Treasury yields back below 2 percent as market rallies. 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• rortybomb Mike Konczal Reading Lorie Tarshis' 1947 "The Elements of Economics." First Keynesian textbook, disappeared after coming under attack. Great stuff. 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• davidmwessel David Wessel RT @TheAtlantic: The real price of a TV set has fallen more than 96% in the last 70 years: http://theatln.tc/tz8T8K 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel It ain't gonna beat itself. RT @JenFreespiritS: @daveweigel Beat the dead horse agan, why don't you? 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta "Paul’s commitment is only to limiting federal power, not proactively protecting individual rights." http://bit.ly/tjQkm6 28 Dec Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! For $1000 a month, you can get the Democrat Machine Survival Report, a report telling you valuable news, like how you can give us more money 27 Dec Retweeted by delong

• dangillmor Dan Gillmor Minneapolis newspaper's weasly explanation of failing to give credit where due: http://bit.ly/rvGYDT from @romenesko 27 Dec Retweeted by delong

• waltershapiroPD Walter Shapiro With no sense of irony, Perry is now appealing to activist federal judges to disregard the Tenth Amendment and put him on Virginia's ballot. 27 Dec Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin Do any of the executive's post-9/11 powers allow the US to forcibly repatriate Adam Posen to the Fed? 27 Dec Retweeted by delong

• noamscheiber Noam Scheiber What I appreciate about Ben Nelson: He spent lots of time making Dem policies crappier to aid re-election to a seat he's giving up. Thanks!

• genericpoints Louis Theran “@delong: Hoisted from the Archives Friends of Ron Paul Edition http://bit.ly/tLaMiq” // They think Churchill was mean to Hitler. #WTF 8 minutes ago

• jontalton jontalton RT @delong: Econbrowser: The Year in Review: Fantastical Pseudo Economics http://bit.ly/sYyjQw 2 hours ago

• CraigCheslog Craig Cheslog MT @delong: Lew Rockwell--the Man Who Ran Ron Paul's Racist Scamming Newsletters--Sends Me a Fund-Raising Email... http://bit.ly/vIReC0 3 hours ago

• binarybits Timothy B. Lee @ @delong I don't understand why people write articles like that without mentioning Vanguard. "Buy a vanguard index fund" is not difficult. 28 Dec

• nazarioz nazarioz Fascinating read. And btw, "the angels' share" is a perfect name RT @delong: The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus

• stegermeister Benjamin Steger @ @delong Either Ron Paul is a racist, anti-semite or he swindled thousands of his own followers. Rock, meet hard place.

Twitterstorm delong: December 27, 2011

• waltershapiroPD Walter Shapiro With no sense of irony, Perry is now appealing to activist federal judges to disregard the Tenth Amendment and put him on Virginia's ballot. 59 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong "Edward Gorey's "The Trouble with Tribbles"" By Shaenon K. Garrity webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity… 13 minutes ago

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin Do any of the executive's post-9/11 powers allow the US to forcibly repatriate Adam Posen to the Fed? 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• noamscheiber Noam Scheiber What I appreciate about Ben Nelson: He spent lots of time making Dem policies crappier to aid re-election to a seat he's giving up. Thanks! 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin Starting to think that the only feasible Fed decision/nondecision of Obama's that mattered was Bernanke's reappointment 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Judd Legum: FACT CHECK: Ron Paul Didn't Decide He Had Never Written or Read His Newsletters Until 2001 http://bit.ly/rsTOro 6 hours ago

• waltershapiroPD Walter Shapiro With both Gingrich and Paul repudiating their newsletters, their loyal subscribers were the biggest suckers since heyday of P.T. Barnum. 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• McCormackJohn John McCormack Gingrich applauded Romneycare when it passed in April 2006 online.wsj.com/article/SB1000… via @allahpundit 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! We may have helped create those Gingrich divorce papers too. Perhaps. #haHa #p2 26 Dec Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine!

News: Newt Gingrich was a deadbeat dad, causing his wife to resort to a church fooddrive. Also, Ron Paul is scared of gay toilets #p2

26 Dec Retweeted by delong

• stegermeister Benjamin Steger @ @delong Either Ron Paul is a racist, anti-semite or he swindled thousands of his own followers. Rock, meet hard place. 5 hours ago

• MacroScope MacroScope RT @delong In Praise Of Jeremy Stein, Obama's New Fed Board Nominee | The New Republic http://t.co/YJQ3CPs8 6 hours ago

• MarkThoma Mark Thoma RT @delong: Shorter Stephen Williamson: call Krugman is wrong if I pretend Lucas said something different newmonetarism.blogspot.com 8 hours ago

• Joseph Force Crater @ @delong Newt compared himself to Yamamoto

Twitterstorm delong: December 26, 2011

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta Weigel: 15 Years Ago, Ron Paul Wasn't Claiming Somebody Else Wrote His Newsletters http://slate.me/uMZXGb 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• firedoglake Firedoglake Condoleeza Rice Wants a Do-Over After Destroying Iraq http://fdl.me/tWisMM 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• pourmecoffee pourmecoffee Here's a one ton 5MB hard drive from 1956 being lowered by forklift off a plane. http://bit.ly/rzYGMj 59 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Too many liberals have joined the Use Capital Letters Instead of Naming Specific Adversaries caucus. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ejgraff E.J. Graff Plan B on Plan B? New research proves progressives were right to be upset by restrictions on emergency contraceptives: http://bit.ly/vPX5Ju 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Folks, we shouldn't have expected MSM to dig up new details on Ron Paul's letters. It's not like this is a former gov of Alaska's emails. 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• GeneHealy Gene Healy I go to thomaslfriedman.com searching for worst column. Top of the page: "Are We Going to Roll Up Our Sleeves or Limp On?" he's like the Michaelangelo of mixed metaphors. 25 Dec Retweeted by delong

• SimonHorrobin Simon Horrobin First toy breakage: 30 mins. More to come given the gross motor skill to enthusiasm ratio. And that's just dad. 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• EconOfContempt EconOfContempt Stratfor was hacked? You've got to admit, that's kind of funny. (Who cares abt their client list. Every major corp & gov entity is a client) 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Thomas Friedman has bad ideas, but at least they're ideas. Bruni is incomparably worse than Dowd or Friedman. I read Frank Bruni with my jaw dropped. How is this happening? Is this an elaborate prank? Some social science experiment? When I think about all the extremely talented thought provoking writers out there.... apologies for crudeness, but what a fucking waste. 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• Ihnatko Andy Ihnatko Another holiday tradition: linking to @evanier's story about Mel Tormé and "The Christmas Song." http://t.co/JGBztXIH 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• Queen_UK Elizabeth Windsor For the avoidance of doubt, Gin O'Clock starts now and finishes at 9am 27th December. Your Christmas Queen loves you. 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• KagroX David Waldman So are we to conclude from Gingrich's disqualification that he was attempting to commit "voter fraud" in submitting invalid signatures? 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor Both Gingrich and Santorum are Virginia residents, and failed to qualify for the state's ballot. #booksaletime 24 Dec Retweeted by delong

• matociquala Elizabeth Bear RT @Sherman_Alexie: Gay people don't threaten my marriage; Gorgeous straight women with no boundaries threaten my marriage. 23 Dec Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall On contrary, vote fraud claptrap was born in effort to put brakes on voting by whole classes of voters. 23 Dec Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Ricardo J. Caballero (2006): On the Macroeconomics of Asset Shortages http://t.co/VhpWn8Pl 23 Dec

• delong J. Bradford DeLong David Beckworth: Macro and Other Market Musings: Why the Global Shortage of Safe Assets Matters http://bit.ly/vWPein 23 Dec

• EricBoehlert Eric Boehlert as `12 prospects slip away we'll c way more RW race hate....Bozell likens Obama to "Skinny, Getto Crackhead"; http://bit.ly/tcmLmU 23 Dec Retweeted by delong

• grossdm Daniel Gross So NYT has $15 m for CEO severance, but no money for its podcasts? You know, it is possible to sell ads against audio content. See: radio 23 Dec Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Steven Horwitz: The Paul Newsletters and the Problem of the Paleos http://t.co/mieb4zUm 23 Dec »

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! Ron Paul('s ghostwriter) outraged #p2 | RT @Reuters: Christmas won't be white in much of United States http://reut.rs/vSn223

• tsuomela Todd Suomela RT @delong Noahpinion: The liberty of local bullies is a nice coinage for an idea I've tried to convey many times. http://t.co/ik26tE02 31 minutes ago

• abc_et_cetera Anne Bown-Crawford RT @CraigCheslog: @delong links to one of Ron Paul's solicitation letters for the newsletters he says he didn't read. http://ow.ly/8asqn 3 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @ @delong Government capital is not just a "now more than ever" thing! Take that, UMich seminar skeptics! ;-) 3 hours ago

• klhoughton klhoughton @Politifact If this (h/t @delong) is Mostly True http://t.co/mtBSzdT5 your Lie of the Year isn't even close to wrong. Brain-dead idiots. 5 hours ago

• molitron daniel molitor @ scary shit "@delong Ron Paul Offers Conor Friedersdorf a $224 Value for Just $99--and Friedersdorf Buys It http://bit.ly/uHvyC1 10 hours ago

• nahumg Nahum Gershon RT @hangingnoodles: still a sizzling mind RT @delong: Francis Bacon: 4 idols http://bit.ly/ssOXVw 24 Dec

• mark_dow Mark Dow J'Syracuse! RT @delong Niall Ferguson in Syracuse... http://bit.ly/vV1uWQ 24 Dec

• jahenfr Jahen F. Rezki RT @rodrikdani: RT @delong: David Romer: Evidence for the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy http://bit.ly/sh7ghH 23 Dec

• peter_c_william Peter Williams “@delong: Yes Virginia, Ron Paul is a Kook http://zite.to/rF084F via @zite” Guess that's what makes him with developers, gamers and the like 23 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 22, 2011

• Progris David A Wolfe “@delong: A Christmas Message From America's Rich http://zite.to/sjK3az 39 minutes ago

• jaytingle Jay Schiavone @delong catches @AdairPolitiFact in Pants-on-fire, Pinochio-nose whopper of a lie: http://bit.ly/rrZ3gG Make a mistake, brazen it out. 1 hour ago

• m_jns Martin Jones 2011 in Review: Four Hard Truths | Olivier Blanchard http://zite.to/slOpUM via @delong 1 hour ago

• CardiffGarcia Cardiff Garcia .@delong on safe assets and trust in banking intermediation. Really interesting: http://bit.ly/tDVAsx 7 hours ago

• jeffhauser Jeff Hauser RT @delong: Ron Paul Is "Part of a Coalition Who Saw Bigotry as a Potent Political Force. This Is Meant as a Defense. In Fact It...... 8 hours ago

• VoxRationalis David Clayton What time is it when 1st-time jobless claims hit a 3.5-year low? Time for House Republicans to put the brakes on the economy again. @delong 9 hours ago

• TonyBallu Tony Burkson RT @delong Paul Krugman: Cutting Government Spending Right Now Increases Long-Term Fiscal Risk http://bit.ly/vtmYXU

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @CardiffGarcia Thank you. But did I say anything that was not in (or implicit in) your piece? I don't think so... 1 minute ago

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler Reid: "I am grateful that the voices of reason have prevailed and Speaker Boehner has agreed to pass the Senate’s bipartisan compromise." 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater http://buy.louisck.net 1 hour ago

• Bill Adair of Politifact Stands by His Claim That the Wall Street Journal's Naftali BenDavid Is This Year's Biggest ... http://bit.ly/rrZ3gG 1 hour ago

• drgrist David Roberts You don't understand, people: they sat in their cubicles and googled this for hours. THEY ARE THE EXPERTS. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? Simon Winchester/Times of London Edition http://bit.ly/rP76bY 1 hour ago

• Atrios Atrios with only several hours of "journalstic research" you earn right to be final word on all topics. also, too, a new internet tradition 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Interesting fact: @Politifact invented research. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts If I replaced Politifact with a group of ppl who understood what a fact is & eschewed false balance, would it still BE Politifact? 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! No he didn't. | RT @DickMorrisTweet: The media went out of their way to discredit @THEHermanCain. Politically he survived 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• The new international economic disorder http://zite.to/tdXQTp via @zite 4 hours ago

• Regulatory Uncertainty, Macro Policy Uncertainty, and Demand http://zite.to/tkMQxZ via @zite 4 hours ago

• Ron Paul is Blowing It http://zite.to/u6SjrR via @zite 5 hours ago

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers A reminder: I said that the pretty GDP data would revise downward toward the weak GDI data. They did. Today's news is GDI revised down again 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates "I was only playing racist to appeal to the racist vote," isn't a defense. It's an indictment. http://bit.ly/ujXjqm 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Paul Krugman: The Meaning of the Mercury Regulation http://bit.ly/udaAd9 9 hours ago

• jstrevino Joshua Treviño Just espionage, baby. Free orange jumpsuits for life. RT @nlitvin: Jonathan Pollard was never convicted of treason. 18 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• altmandaniel Daniel Altman So NYT stock falls 80% while Janet Robinson is CEO, and her severance is $15m (http://reut.rs/uiJUId). Staff editorial time? HT @crampell 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• busynessgirl Maria H. Andersen RT @delong: Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist http://economist.com/node/21541719 #297sm 21 Dec Retweeted by delong

• BenjySarlin Benjy Sarlin It says nothing about a guy that the 6-8 people they'd turn to as ghostwriters are white supremacists. Who else is on Monster.com? 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Congrats to @TheProspect for developing one of the very, very few daily newsletters short & punchy enough to keep me reading. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts "The thing I’ve always found...comforting about Mitt Romney is that his flip-flops betray pure contempt for the Republican base." - J. Chait 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BenjySarlin Benjy Sarlin Who among us hasn't published a racist pro-militia newsletter in our name for decades without ever reading it? http://bit.ly/vVZfVR 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates I don't hate the blacks, I just believing in pandering to those do. I'm not a racist. I'm a cynic. Get it right. http://slate.me/rOYAET 21 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 21, 2011

• altmandaniel Daniel Altman Well worth reading: a response to Jamie Dimon and the other self-righteous members of the 0.001% - http://t.co/cEPxUZba HT @delong 4 hours ago

• EricMartin24 Eric Martin Capitalism! RT @delong: European Central Bank Lends Record $639 Billion To Banks Over 3 Years http://zite.to/tXDi6o via @zite 4 hours ago

• dooleysarahe Sarah Dooley Check out that chart: RT @delong Ron Paul Is Now the Republican Frontrunner http://zite.to/swdtQi via @Shakestweetz @EricBoehlert @zite 5 hours ago

• Mobute Mobutu Sese Seko @delong @pareene Dunno if it much registers with you, but here are 50+ scans of the Ron Paul newsletters + quotes http://bit.ly/vCEWeF 11 hours ago

• Moby_Hick Moby Hick Binge drinking still OK? "@delong: An estimated 75% of U.S. esophageal cancers attributable to chronic, excessive drinking @haroldpollack" 22 hours ago

• danee_economics danee RT @delong: Taking Radical Uncertainty Seriously in Economics - Institute for New Economic Thinking http://ow.ly/1CmyBJ 20 Dec

• infinite_me Scott Gosnell @ @delong If only self-pity could be tranched into new securities. 20 Dec

• ekfletch Erin K Fletcher This GOP frontrunner article is worth a look just for the graph. Finicky, those Iowa voters. http://bit.ly/w4tpwg ht @delong 20 Dec

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie @ @delong @zite WRT Politifact's logic, presumably Congress could relabel the defense budget "Medicare" and record a huge rise? 20 Dec

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! If we recall Republican voters correctly, being accused of racism and walking off of a CNN interview will propell Ron Paul ahead of Romney 12 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor Ron Paul was too busy delivering the future of the white race to keep track of his newsletter. It happens. 10 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates Paul now claims he "never read" any of the letters that went out in his name. 17 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates What sort of functional adult, let alone a president, sends out newsletter in his name and never reads them? 16 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• tedlieu Ted Lieu My analysis of Propublica redistricting piece: there was public testimony. New maps favor Dems. Ergo public testimony must be tainted. What? 41 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! The Mitt Romney Survival Report wasn't a newsletter, just a plan by Romney to change all of his positions to win elections #p2 22 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist http://economist.com/node/21541719 25 minutes ago

• drgrist David Roberts It's discrimination, I tell you. Discrimination against racists. #leaveronpaulalooooone 27 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Ron Paul is sick of people using his racism as some kind of attack on him. 29 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel I want to hear from angry former subscribers to the Ron Paul Survival Report who thought he was writing them 29 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen It's hard to describe how... frustrated! I am by @Politifact and the way they made it impossible for me to defend them. http://bit.ly/v7xIGQ 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• afrakt Austin Frakt A market failure hidden in plain sight. MT @davidmwessel: The world shortage of safe financial assets. http://on.wsj.com/uoixaf 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Mobute Mobutu Sese Seko nods in rocker RT @redfivetwo: Do you remember perpetual race war and being allowed to lynch certain types of people? Ron Paul remembers. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Worth noting: clean-air rules are "controversial" only inside the Beltway. Americans overwhelmingly support them. http://is.gd/25iSnh 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Looks like the "kids' health" special interest has outmaneuvered the "profits for utility execs" special interest, at least for now. 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Remember when industry said that reducing acid-rain gases would crush the economy & cause blackouts? How'd that turn out? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Remember when industry said that removing lead from gasoline would crush the economy & drive gas prices up forever? How'd that go? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Remember when industry said that restricting ozone-depleting gases would crush the economy & drive jobs overseas? How'd that go? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EricBoehlert Eric Boehlert its funny becus its true.......Romney Tortures Jennifer Rubin; http://bit.ly/vpgqlw #mittens 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong European Central Bank Lends Record $639 Billion To Banks Over 3 Years http://zite.to/tXDi6o via @zite 5 hours ago

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer How does the term "niggabitch" have "no racial motive?" 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Story implies reporters have dug up more about Paul's newsletters. No. Kirchick just pointed back, said "AHEM." http://on.msnbc.com/rV0r0y 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• TERKELRAGE Amanda Rage In a way, this was a prelude to the “War on Christmas.” Sorry, Fox News, Antiochus IV isn’t available to substitute host “The Five.” 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• medialens Media Lens @ @ggreenwald Hitchens (1976): 'Saddam Hussain... [is] perhaps the first visionary Arab statesman since Nasser' bit.ly/bt9DOV 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon THIS is UK politics RT @jamescrabtree: Amazing: Ed Miliband, snapped with his head in his hands, via Google St view — awe.sm/5c6sI 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler Nearly forgot about this RT @daveweigel Psst, PolitiFact "Democrats" didn't 1st claim Ryan plan ended Medicare. WSJ did http://slate.me/rQV3UC 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel @ @ThePlumLineGS It's just weird, in a whole piece about fact-checking, that they fail to mention the original story that Dems were citing. 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor Conservatives have finally admitted that racism exists and that white people are capable of it...but only in the form of Ron Paul. 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Things I Did Not Know: Peter Schiff forced to work directly for government, which is legally entitled to arrest him ... http://bit.ly/s9xWIg 20 Dec

• jbarro Josh Barro Dems should dial back their rage against "middle class tax hikes, " since we're eventually going to need some to pay for programs they like. 20 Dec Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent If I bought @PolitiFact & converted it into a direct mail enterprise, & you said I ended @PolitiFact, you would be Liar of the Year 20 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 19, 2011

• emptywheel emptywheel @ @ThePlumLineGS Gotta have something to do. We probably won't be at the "examine Paul's racism" phase until he actually wins IA. 9 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen Regarding Christopher: @kathapollit on Hitchens is a superb use of your time. http://jr.ly/wekg 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro NPR, 1945: "To some, he was a genocidal maniac bent on world domination. But others note Hitler unified a fractious continent under 1 flag." 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro Via @jdhenchman, here's NPR's ridiculously friendly obit for Kim Jong-Il http://n.pr/umj29B 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ddiamond Dan Diamond HHS just announced its 32 Pioneer #ACOs - list and link to @TheAdvisoryBd FAQ on Pioneers here: http://advbd.co/vbNLoE 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro Am kind of surprised that Christopher Hitchens didn't write a brutal takedown of himself to be published posthumously. 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong James Hamilton on Shadowstats' and Niall Ferguson's Claim That "True" Inflation is More than 10% per Year http://bit.ly/vlmrut 5 hours ago

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler @ @ezraklein like all conservative jokes, humor isn't in the punch line. It's in imagining a cartoon liberal get angry about the joke itself. 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Wow, so here is Niall Ferguson falling for the "if we used old-timey inflation it'd be 10%!" b.s. http://thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/… 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MarlowNYC Marlow Stern Craziest claims made about Kim Jong-il. Ex: "State textbooks claim Jong-il does not produce urine or feces" thebea.st/tNzq3e #KimJong 12 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias True fact. Until I visited Finland, I thought reindeer were fake just like santa and elves. (h/t @kari_mokko). 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Václav Havel on Kim Jong-il http://zite.to/vKhTca via @zite 16 hours ago

• TPCarney Timothy P Carney Kim Jong-Il said he got 11 holes in one the first time he played golf. 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Remembering Vaclav Havel http://zite.to/tzA4hT via @zitel # 20 hours ago

• joshtpm Josh Marshall Also ironic Newt crushed by onslaught of unrebutted attack ads, 'victim' of style of politics he did so much to create 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• matociquala Elizabeth Bear The Jabba's palace sequence really is interminable. and I cannot approve the wholesale slaughter of muppets. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Rep. Barney Frank Makes A Compelling Case For The Liberal Vision Of Big Government http://zite.to/vNxIAz via @zite 22 hours ago

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Ha RT @_TPR: Fin. bloggers continue to forget where they come from once they get the CNBC facetime. @TheStalwart is only who remains true 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• went1955 Robert Went Ireland demands debt reduction in exchange for participation in treaty changes – Irish Times – http://bit.ly/ubZBSF (via @boomerangomics) 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• EconOfContempt EconOfContempt Draghi: "this crisis...started from budgets that had got completely out of control" http://on.ft.com/uCjZQK Ugh. Dooming himself to failure. 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• katelinnea Kate Linnea Welsh The most confusing part of #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy is understanding why on earth anyone would cheat on George Smiley. 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen David Gregory interviewing Michelle Bachmann is like a tin of freeze dried coffee trying to program your VCR. 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• altmandaniel Daniel Altman Half the Twittersphere is using the death of #Havel as a conveyance for its own self-important and grandiose pontificating. (Whoops.) 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald Read Al Franken on voting NO on NDAA: "inconsistent with the liberties and freedoms that are at the core of the system" http://is.gd/WIRaBC 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies The phrase running through my mind at present is "Why Christopher Hitchens' Death Means We Must Support My Politics" 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Housing, unemployment, consumer credit, foreclosures, etc. all worse today than they were two years ago. 18 Dec Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @radleybalko @jstrevino How about "Radley Balko is a national treasure"? #truth #soulwisethesearetryingtimesdepartmen 18 Dec

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Peter Temin: Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire http://histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/docs/temin.pdf 18 Dec

• drgrist David Roberts I swear, about 95% of today's GOP politics is explained by @JoshTPM's 2004 "bitch-slap theory." http://is.gd/IKsMZN 17 Dec Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro Looking forward to attack ad w/ Newt's “I only chose to work with those whose values I shared" quote followed by Pelosi love-seat photo. 17 Dec Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Des Moines Register endorses Romney: http://is.gd/RE8eAJ They like his MA healthcare plan, which is "strikingly similar to 'Obamacare'." 17 Dec Retweeted by delong

• wilshipley Wil Shipley The best part about that video is the banana IS the product of intelligent design: ours. We domesticated it up to 8,000 years ago. 17 Dec

• petertkane Peter Kane Recommended from @delong - The 70% Solution: Taxing the Rich Department http://bit.ly/vyU47o 2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

• Prof_BearB Bear Braumoeller Certified 100% awesome RT @delong: Supervillain or Newt | Celebrating our next president's best ideas supervillainornewt.com 3 hours ago

• jneeley78 Josiah Neeley @ @delong @ModeledBehavior Worth noting that Shadowstats doesn't even attempt to recalculate old-timey inflation. Just adds 7-8% to the CPI. 5 hours ago

• Omorka Jennifer Ramon Apples to pomegranates, but still interesting // RT @delong Income inequality in the Roman Empire http://zite.to/uezjPI via @zite 15 hours ago

• @delong: Rep. Barney Frank Makes A Compelling Case For The Liberal Vision Of Big Government http://zite.to/vNxIAz via @zite” /cc: @jmoore 19 hours ago

• robertwaldmann @ @delong Wikipedia unclear. Island dwarf elephants +giant tortoises. best rule = breadbox rule (if it's bigger than a breadbox it shrinks). 20 hours ago

• EdBoilermaker13 Ed H @ @EconOfContempt @delong It's like Draghi has no economics training at all. Maybe he's a US Republican. 22 hours ago

• jstrevino Joshua Treviño The Huffington Post, where the national treasures write. RT @delong: @radleybalko How about "Radley Balko is a national treasure"? 18 Dec

• dolanecon Ed Dolan @ @delong PK is right Even more amazing is that inflation fears live when latest BLS data show deflation bigger threat tiny.cc/0bf8w 18 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 17, 2011

• Flipboard vs. Currents vs. Zite? http://bit.ly/tvGOYa 23 minutes ago

• How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer http://zite.to/tgXgfp via @zite 1 hour ago

• paulmasonnews Paul Mason Offtopic - when i heard Italian Northern League try to ban kebab shops i think: what they got against Brit culture? 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Financial Crises’ Impact Varies Widely - Economic View - NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/tYG0f6 1 hour ago

• mattyglesias mattyglesias But if we want America to continue as the dominant global power, we'll need many more immigrants than are currently allowed to come. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Zite is my favorite new iPad ap. Much better than Flipboard. 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @felixsalmon @gsignoret But usually we learn negative amounts from op-eds--"first, inform your readers" is not a value to Peggy Noonan and c 7 hours ago

• jbarro Josh Barro Tip to closeted electeds: don't shop at a gay fetish store and then SUBMIT THE RECEIPT FOR REIMBURSEMENT http://bit.ly/vovUBn 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Dennis Perrin's Christopher Hitchens Obituary http://bit.ly/s8tWn1 10 hours ago

• Mobute Mobutu Sese Seko It's amazing to go back & read his old columns and revivify a loathing for Christopher Hitchens that became nearly a muted hobbyist disdain. 15 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates I think I'll start an anti-Semitic newsletter called "TNC Reports" and then claim to be ignorant of its contents. HTTP://bit.ly/sHpH8Z 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies It is not as if "The Left" is wholly unfamiliar with the concept of an intellectual giant who has a blind spot for horrific state violence 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AnandWrites Anand Giridharadas "If you’ve no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans": http://onforb.es/vFTX2Y 16 Dec Retweeted by delong

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers How little do we know? A 70% confidence interval for GDP growth in 2012Q1 ranges from 0% to 3.8%. For 2012Q2, from -0.1% to 4.3%. 16 Dec Retweeted by delong

• AnnieLowrey Annie Lowrey I have never encountered a more aggressively horrible consumer product than the BlackBerry Bold.

• EuropeanViolet Mr. Violet @ @delong Income inequality in the Roman Empire http://zite.to/uezjPI < Rome collapsed. 47 minutes ago

• rootless_e rootless Thatcher tells Hayek that wholesale murder and torture are not ok in the UK http://tinyurl.com/cz7y29n (from @delong) 3 hours ago

• fillups44 fillups44 @ @delong Perrin's takedown of @sullydish pretty brutal, although Ask Andrew Anything spots back up Perrin's take. Insufferability of Andrew 9 hours ago

• MurbsSox Murbs' Sox Don't believe the spin folks! RT @delong: For the Last Time, Fannie and Freddie Didn't Cause the Housing Crisis bit.ly/rMsea6 9 hours ago

• destroy_time Benjamin Taylor @joshtpm @delong howling into the idiot wind, man. no one wants to admit that the banks were at fault; would hurt campaign contributions. 9 hours ago

• CoreyRobin corey robin @delong Only a writer of Hitchens’s talents could do justice to the culture that now so shamefully mourns him. http://bit.ly/sLgWyy 20 hours ago

• EuropeanViolet Mr. Violet oh wait, without democracy #StructuralReforms would roll quite faster! http://t.co/eReJcdjW | @delong 16 Dec

• rootless_e rootless @delong https://t.co/iquPuWI9 Hitchens, Keynes, Trotsky. 16 Dec

• rote_fahne Mark @ @delong Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip - well, it's still the third world. 16 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 16, 2011

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers As I'm reading a Goldman evaluation of forecast accuracy, I'm struck once again by how little we know about the macroeconomy. 10 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers How little do we know? A 70% confidence interval for GDP growth in 2012Q1 ranges from 0% to 3.8%. For 2012Q2, from -0.1% to 4.3%. 8 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• Mike Konczal: An Interview on Balance Sheet Recessions with Amir Sufi http://t.co/E0IWvonz 3 hours ago

HTTP status cats by GirlieMac: classic server error codes, now with cats - Boing Boing http://t.co/9XO1k8iV 4 hours ago

• AnnieLowrey Annie Lowrey I have never encountered a more aggressively horrible consumer product than the BlackBerry Bold. 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Receding Inflation In Britain http://bit.ly/vL5paR 9 hours ago

• kdrum Kevin Drum I'm sort of fascinated that GOP establishment seems to hate Gingrich even more than Democrats. And not just on tactical grounds, either. 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! @ @RyanLizza How can we expect Ron Paul to read his own newsletter and tell the ghostwriter Pon Raul to knock off the racism? 18 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Dear Republican debate: Are you even aware that we are suffering 8.6% unemployment? What would you do about it? 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DavidCornDC David Corn Mitt: Some of my best Cabinet members were gay. He just lost 10 points. #foxate #iowadebate 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! but what if the Illegal Immigrants have big brains, will they move forward in the line, Mitt? #FoxDebate 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• lizzwinstead Lizz Winstead The only court Newt wou;d preserve is divorce court. #Teabate #TweetThePress 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky Reality gets better and better: Pair of Robbers Want Only iPhones, No BlackBerries - http://goo.gl/OELBw 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EuropeanViolet Mr. Violet oh wait, without democracy #StructuralReforms would roll quite faster! http://t.co/eReJcdjW | @delong 3 minutes ago

• rote_fahne Mark @ @delong Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip - well, it's still the third world. 3 hours ago

• cstross Charles Stross @ @adamkotsko @delong Mother Teresa was evil. (Denying pain meds to terminal cancer patients "for the good of their souls"? To hell with her.) 10 hours ago

• TamboDUC Cristián Ducoing "The early 1950s saw Argentina's relative prices of producer durables rise to more the twice world levels" @delong (1991) 11 hours ago

• jbplainblog Jonathan Bernstein Dude. Fox should totally use the WS air guitar thing for their time gong. RT @delong: @jbplainblog @normative Wyld Styllyns Rule! 20 hours ago

• nbeaudrot Nicholas Beaudrot @jbplainblog @normative @delong Be Excellent To Each Other. airguitar 20 hours ago

• mike_cal Michael Hoexter A critical read RT @drgrist: Read. It. RT @delong: Mark Schmitt for Democracy Journal: The Myth of the Middle http://bit.ly/tnORLD 22 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @delong Is it a Godwin's Law violation to call this Nazi-esque? http://t.co/1s2NagRY 15 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 15, 2011

• DavidCornDC David Corn Newt opens by playing the Xmas card. Nothing about Hanukah. There goes the all-important Jewish vote in the IA caucus. #foxate #iowadebate 19 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• anamariecox Ana Marie Cox RT @daveweigel: Gingrich on electability: I'm Kemp, Reagan, FDR, and possibly Voltron. #iowadebate 17 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• pandagon Jesse Taylor How did Newt, who dodged the draft, get a job teaching generals the art of war? Or is this a Call of Duty thing? #iowadebate 17 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• DavidCornDC David Corn Newt: "I balanced the budget." Politifacts says this is a lie. That took about 8 seconds. 16 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky Reality gets better and better: Pair of Robbers Want Only iPhones, No BlackBerries - goo.gl/OELBw 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky Remarkable reading: A Minute By Minute Breakdown of MF Global's Last Week On Earth - http://goo.gl/vn3Q4 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• B_Eichengreen Barry Eichengreen In this piece at Foreign Policy Magazine's "Deep Dive," I argue that Europe is building a bridge to nowhere: http://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/… 40 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• LOLGOP LOLGOP 16. If a woman repeatedly cheats on her husband they call her a "whore". But if a man does it, the GOP calls him a "frontrunner". 37 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• mlcalderone Michael Calderone Amazing editor's note: "posting contains multiple, serious factual errors that undermine its premise" http://wapo.st/sLgwuE 26 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon Woman appealing a decision saying she violated the Civil Rights Act, says she's "sticking up for my white rights": http://yhoo.it/t54DpI 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• shiftctrlesc shift ctrl esc Armed drones flying over american cities ... A decade ago, the people that warned this was coming were dismissed as tin foil crackpots. 14 Dec Retweeted by delong

• TimFernholz Tim Fernholz The Ryden Plan is the product of a very weird policymaking dynamic indeed. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Who would have thought building a vast military/security apparatus for an indefinite war on a vague enemy would have domestic repercussions? 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• PatrickRuffini Patrick Ruffini With that said, does anyone know a good foreign, uncensored DNS server? I may demo how easy it is to change. #SOPA 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Daniel Kuehn Reads Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace http://bit.ly/ru7hN2 1 hour ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @delong Is it a Godwin's Law violation to call this Nazi-esque? http://nationalreview.com/articles/28576… 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• matociquala Elizabeth Bear First you must accept the fact of your own mediocrity. http://bit.ly/uM3cy4 @tanehisi says hard true things. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• crampell Catherine Rampell like the Ivies, Berkeley expanding fin aid: families earning ≤$140,000 to contribute no more than 15% of annual income nyti.ms/vUh6oj 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ryanchittum Ryan Chittum if the NYT can give Friedman an unlimited travel budget, they can surely hire an intern to put links in his copy http://nyti.ms/uBTIDq 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ayeletw Ayelet Waldman You know what makes women's lives better? The ability to control when and if they have children. Help a sister out. http://bit.ly/rrHzc5 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @nickconfessore @ezraklein No. Not similar. GOP plans for Medicare enormous compromises in quality. The ACA at least has a quality strategy 11 hours ago

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte God, I've been waiting forever to have an excuse to make fun of rich suburban bikers, and IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING. 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• timothypmurphy Tim Murphy (For you non-history buffs, Christmas was a holiday that used to be celebrated before gays were allowed to serve openly in the military.) 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong James Saft, Fifteen Months Ago, on Ireland http://bit.ly/s7QxzV 12 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The Council on Foreign Relations Finally Hosts a Good Discussion of the Current Economic Situation http://bit.ly/vFzMPI 21 hours ago

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta "An article on Newt Gingrich's official website is headlined 'A Tale of Three Wives: Life on the Campaign Trail.'" http://bit.ly/u2SNtB 14 Dec Retweeted by delong

• orezavi orezavi RT @delong: Mohamed El-Erian: Downward Spiral bit.ly/sfD4dQ 42 minutes ago

• MattCowgill Matt Cowgill "When you read Keynes, you realize you are reading a man of profound humanity and spirit" http://goo.gl/sLmyw (via @delong) 1 hour ago

• drgrist David Roberts Read. It. RT @delong: Mark Schmitt for Democracy Journal: The Myth of the Middle http://bit.ly/tnORLD 1 hour ago

• nielsandeweg Niels Andeweg @ @delong Mrs. Merkel fails to realize that (her) shareholders are ultimately (point reached) stakeholders too #statesmanship #eurocrisis 7 hours ago

• Noahpinion Noah Smith @delong Is it a Godwin's Law violation to call this Nazi-esque? http://t.co/maPgPQTe 10 hours ago

• nickconfessore Nick Confessore RT @delong: No. Not similar. GOP plans for Medicare enormous compromises in quality. The ACA at least has a quality strategy 10 hours ago

• nazarioz nazarioz Oh that's right, this was a good interview on inequality - RT @delong: Daron Acemoglu on Inequality http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dar… 14 Dec

• MarkHedgesUSA Mark Hedges @ @delong Can you fraking believe Fox is suggesting WAR to rescue a ROBOT? 14 Dec

• davenicolette Dave Nicolette @ @delong Didn't you know? Billions of Americans quit their jobs every day so they can get rich on unemployment benefits. 14 Dec

• LisaIronTongue Lisa Hirsch @delong hilariously, I have a LinkedIn invite from Ben Stein. Must be from email telling him how wrong he was about something. 14 Dec

• MilesCorak Miles Corak @NYTimeskrugman @delong @MarkThoma @TimHarford This speech by #BankofCanada gov #Carney looks at our #Minsky moment http://bit.ly/uSRebi 14 Dec »

• ceisenhood Charlie Eisenhood "We have a common, collective interest in full employment and shared prosperity. We are the 100%." - @delong 14 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 14, 2011

• RT @delong: Back in 2004 Greg Mankiw Announced the Rise in Income Inequality Came to an End in 2000! http://http://bit.ly/vrdBJr 13 minutes ago

• KTKeith Kevin T. Keith @ @delong "John Clute: Margaret Atwood and the S and F Words" http://t.co/jOSj4k7H Really great review & capsule history of sci-fi criticism. 2 hours ago

• davenicolette Dave Nicolette @ @delong Didn't you know? Billions of Americans quit their jobs every day so they can get rich on unemployment benefits. 4 hours ago

• MilesCorak Miles Corak @NYTimeskrugman @delong @MarkThoma @TimHarford This speech by #BankofCanada gov #Carney looks at our #Minsky moment http://bit.ly/uSRebi 9 hours ago

• ceisenhood Charlie Eisenhood "We have a common, collective interest in full employment and shared prosperity. We are the 100%." - @delong 11 hours ago

• samarthbhaskar Samarth Bhaskar Another Google Data win RT @cblatts: RT @delong: Google Public Data Explorer http://google.com/publicdata 12 Dec

• PaulHRosenberg Paul Rosenberg @ @delong For Newt, a lie is when you run videotape of him that he doesn't like. Such as calling the Ryan Plan "rightwing social engineering" 12 Dec

• vassalos Vasilis Vassalos How 60 Min. Wasted Its Interview with Obama-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/vXmmnd "Why oh why can't we have a better press corps" dept @delong 12 Dec

• Daron Acemoglu on Inequality http://t.co/ekQJDz387 minutes ago

• DeanBaker13 Dean Baker #NYT spread nonsense on #incomeinequality, failing to realize that the 2009 decline was due to the stock plunge http://t.co/quGUpJyW 23 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• Back in 2004 Greg Mankiw Announced That the Rise in Income Inequality Had Come to an End in 2000! http://bit.ly/vrdBJr 20 minutes ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Trends and Cycles in Income Inequality: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? http://bit.ly/vMPvAY 28 minutes ago

• BetseyStevenson Betsey Stevenson I hate graphs about marriage that begin in the 1960s--it's not the baseline, its the most anomalous period for US marriages 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Muscular Empathy http://t.co/pJF2Nqo43 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Watch at Your Own Risk... http://bit.ly/tqOUPp 4 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong No, Republicans Really Do Not Care About the Government Debt and Deficit http://bit.ly/siSv9r 4 hours ago

• adamkotsko Adam Kotsko Feeling nostalgic for Iraq War rationales. "If we don't fight this unnecessary war, we might lack resolve when we need to fight a war." 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• CitizenCohn Jonathan Cohn BREAKING: Thanks to #Obamacare 2.5M people under 26 now have health insurance. Via new CDC report, broken by AP. #p2 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Martin Wolf: A Disastrous Failure at the Summit http://ft.com/cms/s/0/b7b944… 13 Dec

• Felix Salmon on the Un-Toilet Trained Jeffrey Golderg on Walmart: How Alice Walton has improved America | Felix Salmon http://t.co/TZXK0rAu 13 Dec

• delong J. Bradford DeLong An Unusual Solution to Making "Hamburgers" Out of Season... http://bit.ly/so4ieR 13 Dec

• DeLong Smackdown Watch: LizardBreath Can Haz Cheeseburgers with 14th Century Technology http://bit.ly/sHMwn3 13 Dec

• Adam Kuban: The History of the Hamburger http://bit.ly/vdfqYA 13 Dec

• mathowie Matt Haughey @ @xeni I saw a giant pink billboard while driving around Denver offering $20 mammograms & thought it was sad it isn't just free to all. 13 Dec Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte Putting decaf on the same shelf as real coffee where hapless coffee drinkers can accidentally pick it up is evil and should be banned. 13 Dec Retweeted by delong

• charlesjkenny Charles Kenny Chance that a parent will watch a child die before age 5 fallen from 3 in 5 to around 1 in 3 since fall of Talban http://bit.ly/sCDA06 12 Dec Retweeted by delong

• pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky Twitter consensus is that the garlic-peeled-in-10-seconds thing works. My life is turned upside-down-ish. 12 Dec Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Romney inadvertently sits at table w/ gay VietNam vet, gets grilled on benefits for gay spouses, struggles to flee: http://is.gd/1QWLdf 12 Dec Retweeted by delong

• dealbreaker dealbreaker John Mack Can Have His Artisanal Pigs-In-A-Blanket Sans Flak When Morgan Stanley’s Stock Price Hits Triple Digits http://bit.ly/sQW1zj 12 Dec Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte I'm always amazed when people argue with data you link to as if it were merely an opinion you expressed. 12 Dec Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Gingrich now arguing that FAILING to launch a war on Iran is tantamount to the Holocaust. Classy stuff. 12 Dec Retweeted by delong

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Time to quit my job and spend my days writing Newt Gingrich fan fiction 12 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 12, 1941

• vassalos Vasilis Vassalos How 60 Min. Wasted Its Interview with Obama-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/vXmmnd "Why oh why can't we have a better press corps" dept @delong 50 minutes ago

• rote_fahne Mark @delong re AEI: whenever you think a right wing org has hit bottom, they will prove you wrong. 2 hours ago

• rootless_e rootless Lyndon Johnson's great speech on the South http://tinyurl.com/crdm6vy (via @delong) 8 hours ago

• JayAckroyd JayAckroyd RT @delong: @warmowski Iceland shows how it's done: [banksters] arrested over collapse. "Arrested", not "Given bonus" http://ow.ly/7PDtz 9 hours ago

• VoxRationalis David Clayton Note to #Newt: The USA is primarily populated by an "invented American people." @joshtpm @delong 11 Dec

• streetbrief RP "Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel." ~ Andy Borowitz (h/t @delong)

• dealbreaker dealbreaker John Mack Can Have His Artisanal Pigs-In-A-Blanket Sans Flak When Morgan Stanley’s Stock Price Hits Triple Digits bit.ly/sQW1zj 38 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte I'm always amazed when people argue with data you link to as if it were merely an opinion you expressed. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Gingrich now arguing that FAILING to launch a war on Iran is tantamount to the Holocaust. Classy stuff. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Time to quit my job and spend my days writing Newt Gingrich fan fiction 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler Justice Montemayor, leader of the Solyndans -- an invented people. 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ukwarcabinet War Cabinet War Cabinet appoints Mr Duff Cooper to act as Resident Minister of Cabinet rank at Singapore for Far Eastern Affairs http://ow.ly/7WjKW 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• gerrycanavan Gerry Canavan I constantly rediscover that WAR HORSE is not an absurdist parody of mainstream cinema, but an actual movie. 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Nouriel Nouriel Roubini RGE 2012 Outlook Overview: EZ in deep recession; US at stall speed with 50% double dip risk; China sharp slowdown http://bit.ly/sd7aN0 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• johnpmcdermott John McDermott "...the euro is suffering as much from a balance-of-payments crisis as from a budgetary crisis, " [ibid] 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• davidmwessel David Wessel FT anthropologist Gillian Tett on IMF's Lagarde, among the world's most powerful women. http://is.gd/d1ag2a 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Apparently @PolitiFact isn't aware that Romney said in 2007 that he hopes for "a nation that's taken a mandate approach" 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

Twitterstorm delong: December 11, 2011

• PlanMaestro Plan Maestro The Cheeseburger: simple but complex. In these times...a good reminder that markets are not so bad (smile) http://t.co/pCiWfQKj ht: @delong 6 hours ago

• fnj Faisal N. Jawdat Some @delong on the Internet is wrong!: "Mark-My-Beliefs-to-Market Time: I Should Make This an Annual Observance http://bit.ly/t4KSDM 8 hours ago

• VoxRationalis David Clayton Note to #Newt: The USA is primarily populated by an "invented American people." @joshtpm @delong 8 hours ago

• streetbrief RP "Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel." ~ Andy Borowitz (h/t @delong) 10 hours ago

• rootless_e rootless .@delong's error #2 http://tinyurl.com/88f35qf is due to standard economics disregarding Adam Smith on joint stock corporations 14 hours ago

• SMKPoliticus Sean M. Kelly @ @delong BBC 4 documentary "Tory! Tory! Tory!" (available online) is quite good for encapsulating rise of Thatcherite economics/policies. 23 hours ago

• normative Julian Sanchez RT @JamesOTB: New at OTB: Rick Perry Declares War On The First Amendment http://otb.nu/u18rPj 7 hours ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply Retweeted by delong

• sanginaem Gina Patnaik "The U.S. Constitution does not follow you here": joint campuses in China limit academic expression 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tinyrevolution Jonathan Schwarz So the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Stalinist http://j.mp/uLC6Xs which I assume means it has something to do with The Muppets 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• aspenjfm jerry murdock WOW! Higgs Boson is real! http://bit.ly/u1BMdY 10 Dec Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Prosecuting Bank Fraud: Felix Salmon on How Michael Barr Does Not Control the World http://bit.ly/tl5Oqp 11 hours ago

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen In his restless search for new voices and fresh perspectives, @davidgregory has Ted Koppel on his Meet the Press roundtable today. 13 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias DNC tries to trick Republicans into nominating Gingrich: http://ygl.as/tWPRn3 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• joshtpm Josh Marshall wow, painful to see a smart pundits fall for Newt's 'Palestinian' didn't become a common term until after 1977' line. maybe crack a book? 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Atul_Gawande Atul Gawande Gene therapy actually succeeds, curing 6 Hemophilia B pts (at least temporarily). http://bit.ly/w3k8Xj Cure far cheaper than chronic rx too. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

Twitterstorm delong: December 10, 2011

• RT @delong: #Khan Academy ponders what it can teach the higher education establishment http://bit.ly/rSGhWD 17 minutes ago

• danee_economics danee RT @delong: Justin Lahart: Number of the Week: Finance’s Share of Economy Continues to Grow http://ow.ly/1BOLAA 2 hours ago

• AnnieLowrey Annie Lowrey Gingrich's thesis on the Belgian Congo: Colonialism "painful but positive" by "disrupting tradition" and allowing "rapid modernization." 30 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Scandinavia and the World: Not a Yahtzee http://satwcomic.com/not-a-yahtzee 2 hours ago

• jschmittwdc John Schmitt "German[y] and ECB..view..the problem of pre-crisis policy as primarily..budget discipline when it was clearly..trade and capital flows." 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The Girl Who... http://bit.ly/rZt2ua 4 hours ago

• theseantcollins Sean T. Collins Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you. 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• nickrizzo Nick Rizzo Ha! The music in Rick Perry's right wing Christian anti-gay ad is based on music by progressive Jewish-American gay composer Aaron Copland. 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Icomeapart Robert Lashley @ @tanehisi John Donne said some shit in meter that made Rick James seem vanilla.. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AnnieLowrey Annie Lowrey "ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP." http://bit.ly/rJX6Fq 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Ken Brown: "A Scottish friend tells me that Scotland now has more Giant Pandas than Tory MPs" http://bit.ly/voopZq 23 hours ago

• mattyglesias mattyglesias The rumors are true @TweetBot is the answer to your "the new iOS Twitter app sucks" blues. 9 Dec Retweeted by delong

• aterkel aterkel Hillary Clinton in '05: "I agree" w/ FDA panel "that Plan B is safe and effective for over the counter use." http://huff.to/uMKq8W 9 Dec Retweeted by delong

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta RT @Slate Watch Rick Perry forget Sonia Sotomayor's name and get the number of #SCOTUS justices wrong--VIDEO: http://slate.me/vbCSlb

Twitterstorm delong: December 9, 2011

• rote_fahne Mark RT @delong: RT @crampell: Occupy Wall Street occupies a fake Occupy Wall Street nyti.ms/s2XArh #ows #bullshit #hollywood 2 hours ago

• KarenRegis Karen RT @delong RT @AriBerman: "Saying Elizabeth Warren is too close to Wall Street is like saying Ralph Nader is too cl... http://tl.gd/ekp88k 5 hours ago

• tinyrevolution Jonathan Schwarz .@mattyglesias @atrios @delong Today is a good time to remember some of Robert Samuelson's previous economic insights: http://j.mp/sWsD2Z 9 hours ago

• Atrios Atrios @ @delong http://bit.ly/rHo6Ow 23 hours ago

J* vmbetf vincent “@delong: Paul Krugman on British Debt and the Need for Austerity http://bit.ly/teN2Cf”.. +1 8 Dec

• KagroX David Waldman @ @delong Gingrich paid himself, though! $42K for renting his own mailing list. 7 Dec

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! Mitt Romney is a magic 8 ball, shake him until you get the answer you want to hear 11 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• AnnieLowrey Annie Lowrey "ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP." http://bit.ly/rJX6Fq 46 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Has There Ever Been a Worse Politician than Nicholas Clegg? http://bit.ly/vLtksb 27 minutes ago

delong J. Bradford DeLong Ken Brown: "A Scottish friend tells me that Scotland now has more Giant Pandas than Tory MPs" http://bit.ly/voopZq 34 minutes ago

• mattyglesias mattyglesias The rumors are true @TweetBot is the answer to your "the new iOS Twitter app sucks" blues. 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• aterkel aterkel Hillary Clinton in '05: "I agree" w/ FDA panel "that Plan B is safe and effective for over the counter use." http://huff.to/uMKq8W 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta RT @Slate Watch Rick Perry forget Sonia Sotomayor's name and get the number of #SCOTUS justices wrong--VIDEO: http://slate.me/vbCSlb 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias A fast train from Chicago to Milwaukee is wasteful, but we should build a permanent base on the moon? Doesn't add up? 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tinyrevolution Jonathan Schwarz I think the Washington Post 1st began reporting the welfare state was doomed shortly after Bismark took power, in 1871 http://j.mp/sWsD2Z 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• johnpmcdermott John McDermott Soros bought $2bn of MF Global's European (i.e. Italian) debt in the days after the firm's collapse -- http://on.wsj.com/vdjM46 by @WSJ 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

Twitterstorm delong: December 8, 2011

• jtlevy jtlevy The uniformity of bad campus architecture: Evans at Berkeley via @delong delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/12/la… , Leacock at McGill cac.mcgill.ca/campus/picture… 5 hours ago

• LUNNOtheband Om Iboy RT @umairh: nice, understates the case imho. RT @delong: @rortybomb on 2011: The Lost Year for Obama Economic Policy vsb.li/bOxLcq 9 hours ago

• KagroX David Waldman @ @delong Gingrich paid himself, though! $42K for renting his own mailing list. 20 hours ago

• nazarioz nazarioz RT @delong: Paul Krugman vs. Carmen Reinhart: What is to Be Done About the World Economy? Department bit.ly/sjLZwJ 7 Dec

• KarenRegis Karen RT @delong RT @pdacosta: JP Morgan says final revision of Q3 GDP could come in below 1.5% (compared to original estimates of 2.5% and 2.0%) 7 Dec

• rootless_e rootless .@delong quotes Karl Marx who reminds us what English Capitalism looked like before unions and regulation http://tinyurl.com/6wujogh 7 Dec

• delong J. Bradford DeLong The Progressive Policy Institute Needs to Fire Josh Block Immediately http://bit.ly/vkTyEJ 18 minutes ago

• jbouie Jamelle Bouie For the record, what @adamserwer actually said is that Blumenthal's logic, if applied to the rest of life, would require folks to argue that we shouldn't have black people in any positions of authority, on account of the presence of racism. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Felix Salmon on Google's Big UI Mistake http://bit.ly/tHEw8H 5 hours ago

• Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Indeed I Tremble for My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just" http://bit.ly/stnc4t 5 hours ago

• LilianaSegura Liliana Segura I'm pretty sure my dad, "as a father of two daughters," would have welcomed any responsible measures on our part not to get pregnant. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman Top Senate Dems want Obama to recess appoint consumer agency nominee http://bit.ly/rYqGPJ h/t @gzornick 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel @AriBerman The cognitive dissonance is awesome. Elizabeth Warren is a crazy cop-punching Occupier who loves banks. Also, ACORN. 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias "People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz." #ShitNewtGingrichSays 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Jamie Dimon complains about his tax rate, can't accurately state what his tax rate is: http://ygl.as/rSkV0s 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Have the people behind Microsoft Exchange Webmail interface ever used email? Ever used a website? 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DavidCornDC David Corn Talent reminds people that Newt's fellow Republicans in House concluded "we could not go on with him as our leader." 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• kjhealy Kieran Healy If the world of Blackboard/Sakai can't have the Steve Jobs it needs, how about the Ellen Ripley it deserves? #nukeitfromorbit 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie Simultaneous briefings in Brussels and Frankfurt, if not 100% directly contradicting each other, pretty close to it. Welcome to eurozone. 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky And you thought Greece was bad ... Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II - http://goo.gl/XUwW9 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon Ricky Perry’s office wished Texans ‘happy holidays’ instead of ‘merry Christmas’ 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon +1 “@whinecough: Yes, Minister should really be available on Netflix Instant.” 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler You mean why is the new gchat so awesome? RT @stacyqc: Why does the new gchat hate people whose names don't start with A or B? 7 Dec Retweeted by delong

• Hoisted from the Archives: Jan Eberly: Is Regulatory Uncertainty a Major Impediment to Job Growth? NO! http://bit.ly/rqO7Ny 7 Dec

• ayeletw Ayelet Waldman Because we'd MUCH rather teenagers have abortions than take the morning after pill… http://wapo.st/sL6wE6 7 Dec Retweeted by delong

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies Having told clients "keep a clear head Wednesday , as Thursday will be mega for Euroland newsflow", I find I need to take my own advice 7 Dec Retweeted by delong

• pdacosta Pedro da Costa JP Morgan says final revision of Q3 GDP could come in below 1.5% (compared to original estimates of 2.5% and 2.0%) 7 Dec Retweeted by delong

• DeLong Smackdown Watch: Matt Admonishes Me for Sending Him to a Video with Tom Friedman in It http://bit.ly/tmNyaE 7 Dec

• yorksranter Alex Harrowell @ @dsquareddigest "thuggish central bank with very broad remit, total discretion to crush banks if they get out of hand?" 7 Dec Retweeted by delong

• mrlv426 mrlv426 @ @ggreenwald Hillary under Bush: "Science was compromised in the FDA's decision-making process on Plan B." http://bit.ly/sKkHpI 7 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: Pearl Harbor Day: December 7, 2011

• KarenRegis Karen RT @delong RT @fellowette: DAMN. Stabbing us in the front. rt @EmilySDouglas No health secretary has ever overruled... http://tl.gd/ejka2d 38 minutes ago

• moetkacik moe tkacik @delong incidentally, the centrist neoliberal technocracy is basically a subsidiary of the Right. like Chipotle. Check your membership status. if you were a "centrist technocrat neoliberal" you wouldn't acknowledge me. AND i suspect self-professed "technocrats" in this environment (inter alia decriminalization of fraud) are just paid know-nothings, but i also want to give people a guide to what not to read and how to spot bad faith wonkism before you waste time reading. go back and read jeffrey goldberg on david weigel. there's something generational going on with all those hacks I don't understand.

• wonkinakilt Joe Colucci @ @delong Are you intentionally using AT instead of RT? Does it stand for "Awesome/Amusing Tweet," or something along those lines? 5 hours ago

• emptywheel emptywheel @joshtpm @delong But how well will monogamy work when voters are concerned, among other things, abt religion (once) allowing 4 wives? 5 hours ago

• robprather Rob Prather @
  @mattyglesias have you decided to become contrarian since joining Slate? cc: @delong 6 hours ago

• fillups44 fillups44 @delong Obama crystalizes economic frustration. He gets it, so why Geithner, why policies that exacerbate problem? #whatamImissing 8 hours ago

• admcgregor3 Andrew McGregor @ @delong Gotta love Bleeding Kansas ! 19 hours ago

• samarthbhaskar Samarth Bhaskar Yes, this I like RT @delong: Aaron's Twitter Viewer twitter.theinfo.org 21 hours ago

• TPCarney Timothy P Carney Okay, I'm going to blog on sunrise, sunset, duration of light, and the solstice. @delong @drgrist 6 Dec

• JayAckroyd JayAckroyd RT @delong: RT @TPM: Romney: I'm not a career politician...because I keep losing http://tpm.ly/vUUqgP 6 Dec

• pdacosta Pedro da Costa JP Morgan says final revision of Q3 GDP could come in below 1.5% (compared to original estimates of 2.5% and 2.0%) 13 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• TPEconomy ThinkProgress Econ Romney admits he has no plan to save the financial system that doesn't look like TARP http://thkpr.gs/th6M8r 52 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• yorksranter Alex Harrowell @ @dsquareddigest "thuggish central bank with very broad remit, total discretion to crush banks if they get out of hand?" 49 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• mrlv426 mrlv426 @ @ggreenwald Hillary under Bush: "Science was compromised in the FDA's decision-making process on Plan B." http://bit.ly/sKkHpI 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! Mitt Romney says he was exaggerating when he said Romneycare was a model for other states. That's the ticket, exaggerating. #p2 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• abuaardvark Marc Lynch Did Newt really say he was going to follow the Reagan playbook for Iran? He's going to sell them weapons + send a key-shaped cake? 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @jbarro Grad students not write like this. It takes training to write "Man is the ideology of dehumanization." Grad students don't have it. 2 hours ago

• tnielsenhayden tnielsenhayden I hate Gmail's new look. They've removed too many visual landmarks. I don't want it to look pretty; I want to not have to think about it. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• BenjySarlin Benjy Sarlin That "partisan" ethics committee Newt says fined him in House? 7 to 1 bipartisan vote for reprimand. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Assistant Treasury Secretary Jan Eberly: Why Now’s Not the Time to Withdraw Support for the Economy http://bit.ly/sdrZJG 2 hours ago

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte I'm trying to figure out on what fucking planet it's a good idea to force teenagers w/ sperm already in them to ovulate against their will. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Here's the full Romney 2007 quote on hoping for "a nation that's taken a mandate approach": http://wapo.st/ltqMQX 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady As I replied, also interesting that radical side of the Roosevelt being evoked actually turns out to be a radical quote from Lincoln himself 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro Isn't Rick Perry, then, a proponent of special rights for straight people-- the right to have sex without being jailed? 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AT @BenjySarlin: Just ran into @benpolitico, dispelling my notion he works out of Fortress Of Solitude in tracking world news on 50 monitors 5 hours ago

• tomtomorrow Tom Tomorrow Cannot believe @slowpokejen did an entire cartoon about goatees without mentioning Evil Spock. comics.dailykos.com #geekfail 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias My effort to fulfill the "make fun of Ed Prescott" item on my to-do list http://ygl.as/toeLms 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood Wealth of Walton family = bottom 1/3 of US pop! http://bit.ly/sCpdLX 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon @ @TheStalwart the question is only WHO pays. Unemployed domestic youth, or the bankers who lent too much money in the first place? 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• afrakt Austin Frakt Far enough so research can't be rammed down our throats. MT @aaronecarroll: How deep can we get our heads underground? http://bit.ly/rzNRaA 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @moetkacik But Kaus is Supertwerp Emeritus! You would think he would have some young twerp love in him 7 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Battle of Osawatomie - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of… 19 hours ago

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza This may be the most hilarious thing I've learned this campaign: typing www.rickperry.com takes you to www.ronpaul2012.com 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza Perry: "let's buy rickperry.org, rickperry.net, and uh, uh, I forget the third one." 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies Look, the bad thing is not that $bank got US$xxbn. The bad thing is that similar generosity was not extended to the rest of the economy. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ProfKrugman Paul Krugman "Hoover Institute Recommends Hooverite Policies" http://bit.ly/sipOEj 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman According to Romney, private equity is now a "grassroots" profession, via @thinkprogress 23 hours ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply Retweeted by delong

Twitterstorm delong: December 6, 2011

• Noah Smith: Hoover Institute recommends Hooverite policies http://bit.ly/uSqknh 2 minutes ago

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/rVlg1O In the quest to find anyone but rapists to blame for rape, your friends who drink at parties are the next nominee. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies Look, the bad thing is not that $bank got US$xxbn. The bad thing is that similar generosity was not extended to the rest of the economy. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal I mostly side with The Fed on this one. Bernanke: 3/4. Bloomberg: 1/4. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Given that The Fed saved the economy from collapse, it's hard to see the benefit in ex-post facto retellings that make it sound evil. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon @ @mark_dow @alanbeattie @raluca3000 @dsquared The official sector always insists on comparability of treatment, so IMF itself needs no rules. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman According to Romney, private equity is now a "grassroots" profession, via @thinkprogress 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• econjared Jared Bernstein New blog post: Fearlessly, if not Uselessly, Entering the Fact-Free Zone http://bit.ly/sWSeBM 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Okay, I'm open minded. Is there any evidence that the problem right now is that the poor lack skin in the game? 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro Newt Gingrich and the GSE model: http://bit.ly/rQyCUc 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• yvessmith Yves Smith “No People, No Problem”: The Baltic Tigers’ False Prophets of Austerity: By Jeffrey Sommers, an associate profes... http://bit.ly/sPLroF 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AndyBarr34 Andy Barr Valet parking only at Romney "grassroots" event in Arizona http://pic.twitter.com/LMkVV5QE 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AriBerman Ari Berman Three months ago Obama's speeches were about the deficit. Now they're about income inequality, basic fairness & jobs #OWS 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ryangrim ryangrim Classic Obama, won't even distinguish between 99 and 1: "These are not 99% values or 1% values, these are American values." 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

*pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky That I recently had to explain Greek sovereign CDS to someone from UBS can't be a good thing. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• rauchway Eric Rauchway Trickle-down "didn’t work when…before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the…post-war boom" What did? the New Deal. Could say so. 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why We Need to Study War--the Civil War--a Lot More http://bit.ly/sWxprS 6 hours ago

• JoshDorner Josh Dorner Morgan Stanley Executive Calls For Higher Taxes On The Rich: ‘We Cannot Cut Our Way To Greatness’ HTTP://thkpr.gs/vLtevJ 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pareene Alex Pareene Has Newt Gingrich come up with any ideas regarding the new Earth-like planet yet or is he saving his A material for the Trump debate 5 Dec Retweeted by delong

• ryanjreilly Ryan J. Reilly MA resident on Romneycare: "I am alive today because of Mitt Romney. I want to... give him a hug." http://reut.rs/vMH8JW 5 Dec Retweeted by delong

• bradplumer brad plumer To be sure, countries like Sweden and Denmark do exist: http://bit.ly/uuLcVs 5 Dec Retweeted by delong

• TedDixon Ted Dixon @ @TheStalwart So the UK is last man standing in G5 with AAA stable...who'd of thought 5 Dec Retweeted by delong

• kaysteiger kaysteiger RT @RyanLizza: Hilarious. All the historical figures to whom Newt has compared himself: http://bit.ly/w2RjT3 (via @elspethrb) 5 Dec

• TPCarney Timothy P Carney Okay, I'm going to blog on sunrise, sunset, duration of light, and the solstice. @delong @drgrist 2 hours ago

• JayAckroyd JayAckroyd RT @delong: RT @TPM: Romney: I'm not a career politician...because I keep losing http://tpm.ly/vUUqgP 3 hours ago

• antjgone Jasmine La Morgia Saez and Diamond argue that the right marginal tax rate for North Atlantic societies to impose on their richest citizens is 70% @DeLong 17 hours ago

Twitterstorm delong: December 5, 2011

• pareene Alex Pareene Has Newt Gingrich come up with any ideas regarding the new Earth-like planet yet or is he saving his A material for the Trump debate 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• jbarro Josh Barro We get it Slate, you're quirky and contrarian and blah blah. A quasi-favorable LMFAO review is still a bridge too far http://slate.me/sIu30R 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• bradplumer brad plumer To be sure, countries like Sweden and Denmark do exist: http://bit.ly/uuLcVs 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TedDixon Ted Dixon @ @TheStalwart So the UK is last man standing in G5 with AAA stable...who'd of thought 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post Takes to Her Fainting Couch Again http://bit.ly/vs3QqC 3 hours ago

• kaysteiger kaysteiger RT @RyanLizza: Hilarious. All the historical figures to whom Newt has compared himself: http://bit.ly/w2RjT3 (via @elspethrb) 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza Oh and don't miss @elspethrb's follow-up from today: A Quarter Century of Gingrich Dirt http://bit.ly/vSHCgQ 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• grossdm Daniel Gross While they're at it S&P should downgrade luxembourg from "country" to "curiosity" 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies Seriously, which is more likely to be around in 100 years - France, or Moody's Investor Services? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @dsquareddigest @crookedtimber FEAR THE TEDRA!!! 3 hours ago

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies By the way, @crookedtimber is likely to be taking a rather more aggressive policy toward sexist trolls in the near future ... 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie @ @dsquareddigest You know my new trading rule, right? Buy on the summit, sell on the communique. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• markos Markos Moulitsas Gotta admit, Ron Paul FTW. Read the update at bottom: http://is.gd/0G8rat 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• daveweigel daveweigel Victorye! RT @mikeallen: AP: Former Vice President Dan Quayle is endorsing Mitt Romney 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal RT @Kelly_Evans: S&P PUTS ITALY, BELGIUM, MALTA, AMERICAN SEAFOOD, J. CREW ON OUTLOOK NEGATIVE 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• brianbeutler Brian Beutler Best quote eva RT @ggreeneva "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."-Quayle 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• wired Wired In 2002, Newt Gingrich called for ringing the planet with space lasers. http://bit.ly/vjOWJm MT @dangerroom 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• pdacosta Pedro da Costa Fed must act now to boost economy, Evans says http://reut.rs/w4s9o9 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• David Roberts: The brutal logic of climate change http://t.co/FtfEBsuF5 hours ago

• What You Are Supporting When You Support Ron Paul http://bit.ly/s5rH3U 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @DemocratMachine You are off message! Until the RNC, Newt is a thoughtful intellectual statesman and the one the DemocraticMachine fears!! 5 hours ago

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! Of course the Muppets are part of the Democrat Machine. They started on PBS. You know what the P stands for, right? 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• afrakt Austin Frakt Henry Aaron predicts SCOTUS will sustain the mandate by 7-2 or 8-1. That and other wisdom. at http://bit.ly/sMHTP2 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://nyti.ms/sZ2qFW Shocking: there is no sexting epidemic amongst minors. In other news, rock'n'roll isn't Satan's music. 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal RT @TheArmoTrader: $$ The 8 countries that would be left with "AAA" ratings are countries who can.....print their own money! (h/t @mbusigin) 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Hoisted from Comments: Spiff on David Brooks http://bit.ly/vtqKuA 7 hours ago

• Division of Labor Cheeseburger Blogging http://bit.ly/vnEeRP 9 hours ago

• emptywheel emptywheel So the Republicans are fixing to nominate a Freddie Mac lobbyist as their Presidential candidate? 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong My Diagnosis: Twittering Having First Gotten into the 'Shrooms bit.ly/urwSyD 10 hours ago

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie FACT: eurozone policymaking is slow because every e-z finance minister needs to eat his/her own bodyweight in bamboo every day. #pandasummit 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte http://bit.ly/vEeP7N Townhall is using The Grapes of Wrath as evidence that high unemployment is no big deal. No. Seriously. 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie For the limiting case of expensive pointlessness I propose daily eurozone panda summits, starting tomorrow. 10 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ryanavent Ryan Avent Ah, 2:30 pm in London, when the December sun begins to set. 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen If both parties aren't equally dependent on it, public untruths as a 2012 strategy eludes the capacity of our press. http://j.mp/uvYYwS 12 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EricKleefeld Eric Kleefeld Just got tip that a woman who had affair with Newt is going to surface — Callista is hitting the campaign trail. 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Good point MT @BrendanNyhan Romney aide calling ads "manipulative pieces of persuasive art” reminds me of Bush "reality-based community" 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Duncan Weldon: The IMF on what caused the UK’s debt http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2011/10/19040/ #counterparties 11 hours ago

• sarahkliff Sarah Kliff If I have a reporting question, about 50% chance that statehealthfacts.org has the answer. #somuchinformation #sundaynightwriting 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ProSyn Project Syndicate Now most commented on our site: "The 70% Solution" by J. Bradford @DeLong. Join the discussion: http://bit.ly/rtjuwh 56 minutes ago

• SMKPoliticus Sean M. Kelly @ @pareene @delong No chance-he already has enough problems due to his not-entirely-absurd position regarding another set of "aliens" #uspoli 1 hour ago

• KarenRegis Karen RT @delong RT @pdacosta: Fed must act now to boost economy, Evans says http://reut.rs/w4s9o9 3 hours ago

• grant_mcdermott Grant McDermott Dolphins! Aliens! Limitless energy!... You had me at David Icke. http://t.co/uIqNJ0Rc @delong @chrislbecker 4 hours ago

• AmandaMarcotte Amanda Marcotte @ @delong Shush now. I thought my line about making soldiers for the homeland was totally snarky. 4 hours ago

• MarkHedgesUSA Mark Hedges @ RT @delong Roman Reps // If Maximin hadn't screwed it up, making Christianity necessary, would've conquered Persia; math = nukes by 10th cen 8 hours ago

• SMKPoliticus Sean M. Kelly @ @delong 1/2 The same point can be made regarding the Battle of Thermopylae - the "iconic" clash between East & West. Do we really want to associate the "West" with militarist, oligarchic salve-holders who controlled the helot population via ritualized genocide? 9 hours ago

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie Busted. RT @delong My Diagnosis: Twittering Having First Gotten into the 'Shrooms bit.ly/urwSyD 9 hours ago

• fillups44 fillups44 @ @delong @tanehisi is such a graceful writer who gets to the essence of the Cain debacle. There is a general horror at these Repub debates 10 hours ago

• polit2k Tim Coldwell RT @delong: Thomas Edsall: The Reinvention of Political Morality http://t.co/bHlLJmWM 11 hours ago

Twitterstorm delong: December 4, 2011

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin Is this new iPhone ad something their ad shop made as hipstertastic as possible as a joke and then Apple decided they liked it? 9 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• ezraklein Ezra Klein Germans eat a lot of goose. Or, if they don't, they've concocted an elaborate scheme to make me think they do. 35 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Why This Is Going To Be The Week From Hell In Europe http://read.bi/uKcKbi 25 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon Bank of England in crackdown on bankers' bonuses http://tgr.ph/rFLeud - funny how you never see the NY Fed saying this. 19 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• adamkotsko Adam Kotsko One day, everyone will admit that "flatbreads" aren't a thing, and I will be vindicated. 57 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• stephenfgordon Stephen Gordon A US conceit: a failure of their policy-makers must necessarily force a major rewrite of principles textbooks around the world. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• Wolfgang Münchau: France and Germany look set to fudge it yet again ft.com/cms/s/0/874af2… 3 hours ago

• Peter Dorman on a Better Way to Teach Econ 1 http://bit.ly/utJThj 4 hours ago

• rortybomb Mike Konczal "Tags: Georges Sorel, Ross Douthat." Heh. mt @CoreyRobin ICYMI Douthat sounds like a Monarchical Marxist Proto-Fascist http://t.co/ssqGUFrK 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• asiangrrlMN: The Jerry Sandusky Rape Case: The History of the PSU Cover-up, Part I http://t.co/dR1Wjx1t 5 hours ago

• FT: The struggle for a global climate pact http://t.co/PMkBTqDp 5 hours ago

• tomkeene tom keene Economist's View http://bit.ly/cYce06 the best economics blog in the world 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer NRO column calls Rand Paul a "libertarian extremist" for saying POTUS can't just say "WAR" and ignore the constitution. http://t.co/bbINjCS3 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism (1910): http://t.co/o4WkyosG 8 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @daveweigel Re: "Weird to hear Amanpour use the word "suck" twice" Somebody tell Ruth Marcus to spank her! 8 hours ago

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Problem w/ cynicism (or stupidity) of some politicians today is the embrace of ideas so bad we can't even try them to prove them wrong 8 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ariannahuff Arianna Huffington "It's embarrassing for me as a Republican to watch this stuff." -former Sen. John Danforth on the GOP race. http://bit.ly/uMTZOw 11 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal HAHAHAHA. @businessinsider blamed for $AAPL's low PE ratio http://bit.ly/sZNAsS (via @biggalaxy) 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Robert B. Barsky: The Japanese Bubble: A 'Heterogeneous' Approach http://t.co/wh47YyeY.… #noahpinion 8 hours ago

• Barber and Odean: Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment http://t.co/B5dTbS3l #noahpinion 9 hours ago

• Scheinkman and Xiong: Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles http://t.co/93NUfKzl #noahpinion 9 hours ago

• Harrison and Kreps (1978): Speculative Behavior in a Stock Market with Heterogeneous Expectations http://t.co/M3U3Uj9w #noahpinion 9 hours ago

• JamesGRickards Jim Rickards #Obama wanted to be #FDR. For reelection he's channeling #Truman and #TeddyRoosevelt. Sad truth is he's the new #Hoover. #IntelligentFailure 18 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• emptywheel emptywheel Apparently Fox realized they had used an EU flag as background. They've now fixed it. It's now a PoMo capital dome, I think. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• angrybearecon Angry Bear blog Man Bites Dog: Newt Gingrich tells the truth.“the individual mandate was originally developed by the Heritage Fo... http://bit.ly/vGVqfw 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior Did Ron Paul just give the market credit for sending Enron executives to prison? I thought courts did that. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Martin Wolf: What the IMF should tell Europe http://t.co/ri5SP505 21 hours ago

• daveweigel daveweigel Oh God he held the Constitution upside down 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal RT @gnewburn: Are you "serious"? RT @thinkprogress: Rick Perry says he can unilaterally repeal the Affordable Care Act by "Executive Order" 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• anamariecox Ana Marie Cox RT @LOLGOP: Looking at these Attorney Generals compared to Santorum makes you realize that these candidates are the best the GOP can do. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• cliffschecter Cliff Schecter Santorum: Federal gov should b very limited! Except4 Const. Amndment banning abortion & gay rights, torture & bombing ppl--thats different 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• anamariecox Ana Marie Cox So I can really say that this GOP forum has led me to make an endorsement: Archer Farm's White Cheddar Popcorn Flavoring! 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza Re: Newt and education, as Ron Paul's campaign points out, Newt was in House in 1979 when Ed Dept. was created under Carter. He voted yes. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza That sound pro-market policy was known as cap and trade. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! Newt is the frontrunner, Mitt is 3rd in Iowa, we are drunk and shirtless. Everything is going to plan tonight. #VivaMachine 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal Romney falls to 46% on Intrade http://bit.ly/gxo3r3 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza DMR Poll: Newt Gingrich 25, Ron Paul 18, Mitt Romeny 16, Undecided 11, Michele Bachmann 8, Herman Cain 8, Rick Santorum 6, Rick Perry 6. 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• sarahkliff Sarah Kliff Kind of a sad place in life when the one time you really wish you owned a TV is for an 8 am interview w the former CMS administrator. 3 Dec Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias I'm a capital punishment skeptic, but clearly we need more deterrence for supermarket express lane rule violators. 3 Dec Retweeted by delong

• krs133 Simon The second rule is that if the voter intention poll shows a Labour lead, the polling on the economy or the preferred leader matters more. 3 Dec Retweeted by delong

• krs133 Simon The first rule of being a political correspondent on twitter is that topline voting intention polls only matter when they show a Tory lead. 3 Dec Retweeted by delong

• Alex Seitz-Wald: Former Republican Senator Jack Danforth: The GOP Presidential Field Is ‘Embarrassing’ http://t.co/jeHMqkca

• LaurenLaCapra Lauren Tara LaCapra “@delong: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: The Opinions-of-Shape-of-Earth-Differ Press Corps http://bit.ly/vzNwTN 26 minutes ago

• lsarpp Ted Auch @ @delong HEY climate change and evolution are cute theories nothing more at this point! 53 minutes ago

• cliffschecter Cliff Schecter So tru-most who have probs w/it, do bc duznt go far enuf or don't get it MT @delong Views of Nationwide RomneyCare http://bit.ly/sgG6lk #p2 2 hours ago

• Are we going to have our GOP lead by crazy people? RT @delong: Tonight's Republican Presidential Debate http://bit.ly/tMqHO1 17 hours ago

• chiverre Chiverre More Romney rhetorical questions: Are we going to eat a meal cooked by a cook? (via @delong) 18 hours ago

• mario_perea Mario Perea Waisman @ @delong Breaking News!!!!: two and two add four! Listen before I suspected it, now I know: This is intentional! 3 Dec

• michael_r_smith Michael R. Smith RT @GeneHealy: My favorite headline ever: RT@delong: Gingrich Said Freddie Mac Could Be Good Model for Mars Travel http://bit.ly/sHROe5 3 Dec

Twitterstorm delong: December 3, 2011

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza It's really confusing to read Will elegantly eviscerate Newt for his crony conservatism but then praise...Rick Perry. http://wapo.st/untNJY 43 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza Odd thing about Romney's capital gains tax cut comment (and plan) is most middle income taxpayers don't have any capital gains. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong

• Rumors Of Extramarital Affair End Campaign Of Presidential Candidate Who Didn't Know China Has Nuclear Weapons | The... http://bit.ly/tmvsX9 2 hours ago

• ddayen David Dayen Gingrich, Romney campaigns begging Cain staffers to dissuade him from endorsing them #KingMidas #CainWreck 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• JamesUrbaniak James Urbaniak No one will ever quote Pokemon song lyrics again with such anger and bitterness. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jimgeraghty jimgeraghty I would like everyone who called Palin's not-running-for-reelection speech the most incoherent ever to reconsider that view now. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• normative Julian Sanchez So, multiple reports of sexual harassment of subordinates didn't doom Cain, but one consensual affair did? Anyone else find this weird? 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon #slatepitch! RT @ModeledBehavior: I feel like the bloggy thing to do would be defend a Freddie Mac model for mars travel on economic grounds 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen Democrats and GOP: Competing Narratives http://j.mp/uFDY6a Heck if we know who's right so we'll just dump it on you cuz that's journalism. 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• kjhealy Kieran Healy I presume this is the first in a new series of warm, sympathetic front-page NYT print/video interviews with accused child rapists. 9 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ebertchicago Roger Ebert OOPS! The "Women For Cain!" are all models for a South African sugar company. bit.ly/vnFJKI 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• aaronsw Aaron Swartz GOP plans to soak millionaires by taking them off food stamps: Also maybe ban them from sleeping under bridges? 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• noamscheiber Noam Scheiber Oops, was Pawlenty invoking teenage wife for Romney. W/ friends like these.. MT@MaeveReston TPaw praises Romney for meeting wife as teenager 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• srlawton Steve Lawton @ @NYTimeskrugman @delong from the archives: The Minsky Moment http://nyr.kr/vroU2h 2 hours ago

• michael_r_smith Michael R. Smith RT @GeneHealy: My favorite headline ever: RT@delong: Gingrich Said Freddie Mac Could Be Good Model for Mars Travel http://bit.ly/sHROe5 5 hours ago

• paulstpancras paulstpancras .Ho Hum sigh RT @lecreative: RT @TheStalwart: RT @delong: "Expansionary" Austerity in Europe http://bit.ly/uRy4WP #gfc2 #GD2 5 hours ago

Twitterstorm delong: December 2, 2011

• pdacosta Pedro da Costa Morgan Stanley revises its forecast for global economic growth in 2012 to 3.5% from 3.8%, with deepest cuts in euro area. 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• afrakt Austin Frakt If this post is true, Mankiw would have returned my emails. They were very nerdy. | Is my ideology that obvious? http://bit.ly/vVay6C 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• aterkel aterkel RT @JuddLegum: BREAKING: Women in stock photo withdraw support for Cain http://j.mp/v3wg5a 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias Note: Finland, on the euro and with bad music, is not technically Scandinavian. Has to console itself with excellent K-12 schools. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• mattyglesias mattyglesias @ @ryanavent I want us to get reclassified as blog post manufacturers rather than "other information services." 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin Whenever Greg Mankiw is saying something very softly with lots of qualifications, it means he's saying something that Krugman agrees with 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jbplainblog Jonathan Bernstein But They Really, Really Hate Obama's Policies - When Republicans want to repeal and replace...with the same thing. http://ow.ly/7MOXX 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts My growing conviction that we're totally f*cked has somewhat diminished my appetite for talking in soothing tones to the "vital center." 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• econjared Jared Bernstein New blog post: About That Drop in the Unemployment Rate... http://bit.ly/rvkddW 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza T or F? Newt once said: "THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER IS A VIOLENTLY MARXIST INSTITUTION." 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza If I had more time, wd start #newtquotes & add: US will soon b a socialist communist country, potentially 1 dominated by radical capitalists 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• jeremyscahill jeremy scahill Palin mocked study of DNA of fruit flies. I met scientists @ CalTech doing it. They're working on cure for Parkinson's. 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• matthewstoller Matt Stoller @ggreenwald Question for you - does the bill the Senate just passed allow the President to indefinitely detain a Senator for any reason? 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• stephenfgordon Stephen Gordon US spending on durables, housing has been so low for so long that there must be a certain amount of pent-up demand http://bit.ly/ucuuwa 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• attackerman attackerman Finally found the lost tapes of Attackerman1.0: The ThinkProgress Era. Forthcoming attackerman.com will now have my entire 4-year archive... 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• politifact PolitiFact In Iowa, Gingrich said you can go to Hawaii using food stamps. Wrong in so many ways. Pants on Fire http://ow.ly/7LQOm 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• jimgeraghty jimgeraghty Having declared, "I will be the nominee," Newt now plans to build wings from feathers and wax and complete a manned expedition to the sun. 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• marcoarment Marco Arment My thermostat is downloading an update. 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• tnielsenhayden tnielsenhayden Peabrained Katie Roiphe belatedly notices existence of flamewars (!!!), somehow gets paid for writing about it: http://tinyurl.com/8aaaw82 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• anamariecox Ana Marie Cox POST! POST! RT @ClaraJeffery: Our Newt archives are going to be so much fun for the 5 days this delusion lasts. http://yfrog.com/nxlcdlzj 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers How to fund the payroll tax cut: 1. Fewer services from cutting # and pay of govt workers; or 2. Taxing millionaires. Which do you prefer? 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts How many times does GOP base have to mistake "being an a**hole" for "being a principled conservative" before we, um, draw conclusions? 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts Then again, Dem base mistook "being reasonable & eloquent" for "being a principled liberal," so ... 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• NancyPelosi Nancy Pelosi I don’t know what the middle class ever did to the GOP that they’re so out to get them-latest example: http://goo.gl/qPHfF 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald Surreal: Sen Feinstein had an amendment just to say: you can't militarily imprison US citizens w/o charges - it failed: http://is.gd/CssfHf 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• nickconfessore Nick Confessore Not actually written in 1997: "A new species has risen from the shallows of the Internet: the angry commenter." http://slate.me/u0ZnQC 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• strandcrochet Amy Maxwell When some one tells you that you can’t have Christmas without Christ, remind them you can’t have Thursday without Thor. 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• DemocratMachine VivaMachine! Don't we all give money to random women who we're not having affairs with? #Cainwreck #p2 #VivaMachine 1 Dec Retweeted by delong

• NobieAnn Nobie Ann Jones RT @delong Mike Konczal: Unemployment Dips, but That Hardly Makes Up for a Lost Year on Economic Recovery http://t.co/YJ0xlIvJ 3 hours ago

• 1whoknu You know who RT @delong Gingrich Backed Freddie Mac in 2007 Interview http://on.wsj.com/uP3bKd 5 hours ago

• dsquareddigest Dan Davies @ @DougHenwood @delong the phrase "now he tells us" comes to mind. 6 hours ago

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood My god - Ken Rogoff doubts capitalism's viability. Via @delong: http://bit.ly/rZftYL 6 hours ago

• Radlein Ray Radlein RT @delong: RT @fbihop: After this latest gaffe, I fear Bachmann will no longer be taken seriously. 1 Dec

• maxrothbarth Oliver Rivers @ @delong Think Dunbar's Inventing Money not only best account of LTCM, but also (1 of) best of history of financial innovation since 1970 1 Dec

• jeffspross Jeff Spross Best. Title-for-a-book-on-the-financial-crisis. Ever. http://amzn.to/sCZh16 (h/t @delong)

Twitterstorm delong: December 1, 2011

• Felix Salmon : Why rogue traders will never disappear http://t.co/phFqge8s 17 minutes ago

• Hyun Song Shin: Global Banking Glut and Loan Risk Premium http://t.co/ghE07TXZ 18 minutes ago

• Nick Dunbar: The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who http://t.co/KNVpejl6 8 hours ago

• Mark Thoma on Coordinated Central Bank Intervention http://bit.ly/tyC28I 8 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @davidmwessel discussing In Fed We Trust with Miles Kimball over dinner mobile.twitter.com/#!/ 22 hours ago

• counterparties Counterparties Check out our new underlinks feature! w/ links from @PIMCO @nitashatiku @MelissaBell @Simon_Nixon http://bit.ly/ok6ilS 30 Nov Retweeted by delong

• jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen I don't think political journalists see Romney's lying ad as a challenge to the press as a check http://j.mp/uoFtUQ But that's what it is. 29 Nov Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie Yet another way the eurozone can bail out Italy/Spain via the IMF. If only they had the political will. http://t.co/ytzRMpGs 29 Nov Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie Regling: "We won't even need E100bn next month". Sure about that? #eurogroup 29 Nov Retweeted by delong

• Mssv http://mssv.net 29 Nov

• bradplumer brad plumer HEAR THIS MAN OUT: "Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future" http://bit.ly/w4K56B 29 Nov Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Uh oh. A lot of readers vewy, vewy angry that independent experts are calling for payroll tax cut extension. 29 Nov Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Whoa. Top financial firm says failure to extend payroll tax cut would lead to 1.5% drop in growth forecast: http://wapo.st/vhOWly 29 Nov Retweeted by delong

• globalcpal Globalcpal RT @delong: Matthew Yglesias: The terrifying new theory that Europe’s economic troubles could devastate the U.S. http://t.co/k48hVtQs 15 minutes ago

• maxrothbarth Oliver Rivers @
  @The_Analyst @delong Dunbar's is a serious account of development of mathematical finance & rise of hedge fund industry 58 minutes ago

• maxrothbarth Oliver Rivers @ @delong Think Dunbar's Inventing Money not only best account of LTCM, but also (1 of) best of history of financial innovation since 1970 8 hours ago

• Chris_HHH Chris H I think ppl intuitively get the moral hazard of it all ... 2 bad their reps refuse to do much about it http://t.co/8mNbWjOs via @delong 22 hours ago

• hamptonus Hampton Myers @ @delong @Vermando Banks got 2 bailouts. TARP, and 3 yrs risk free carry trade via fed intervention. 2nd bailout will never be paid back. 23 hours ago

• maxrothbarth Oliver Rivers @ @DougHenwood @alanbeattie @delong Merkel is a Tralfamadorian & is engineering €meltdown to signal to home planet that she wants to leave 29 Nov

Twitterstorm delong: November 29, 2011

• rortybomb Mike Konczal "Somebody owns that equity value right now. It's not the government." @Delong on Fed lending. http://bit.ly/rZYZqR 2 hours ago

• PaulHRosenberg Paul Rosenberg MT @delong The U.C. Berkeley Faculty... http://bit.ly/uqKORP ...condemns the over-reaction of police... 2 hours ago

• Joe Weisenthal: The Rosetta Stone of the Sovereign Debt Crisis http://read.bi/uGTc4x 4 hours ago

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers What Do We Know About the Effects of Fiscal Policy? Christy Romer provides a very readable summary. Dig in. http://bit.ly/v4BNwA HT @delong 20 hours ago

• @umairh @delong Come on guys, I'm unemployed and I'm living the life of my dreams! Don't got no cash, No girl, No problems. 21 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Juliet Eilperin: World on track for nearly 11-degree temperature rise, energy expert says - http://t.co/oXyt6mrk 5 minutes ago

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood @ @alanbeattie Are the ECB and the German elite living on Planet Earth, or is there some rationality to their behavior we can't see? 42 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• alanbeattie Alan Beattie Regling: don't need a lot of EFSF leverage over next days and weeks. How long does he think Italy and Spain are going to last? 51 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates Done with race and IQ. Actually stooping to defend the intellect of black people is a personal low. #badlook #neveragain 38 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• AdamSerwer AdamSerwer If you're not opposed to indefinite military detention of citizens, how can you claim with a straight face to support "limited government?". Constitution was written to limit arbitrary power. What could be MORE arbitrary than indefinite imprisonment on suspicion of a crime? Besides just offing people based on a conclusion reached by a secret unaccountable panel of course! 14 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• econjared Jared Bernstein Paul Krugman on why higher taxation on those at the top of the income scale must be part of any sustainable budget plan http://nyti.ms/u9Xx4Y 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• econjared Jared Bernstein Two important questions (and answers) about income inequality and economic growth via Piketty and Saez http://bit.ly/v5HMdY 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• ThePlumLineGS Greg Sargent Whoa. Top financial firm says failure to extend payroll tax cut would lead to 1.5% drop in growth forecast: http://wapo.st/vhOWly 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• drgrist David Roberts 100 Twitter points to the one who combines pizza, Baptist ministry, infidelity & sexual harassment into the ultimate Herman Cain joke. 21 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• digby56 digby It doesn't matter if they're certifiably nuts as long as they aren't hippies http://bit.ly/vqzmaU 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• calculatedrisk Bill McBride NY Times: "Crisis in Europe Tightens Credit Across the Globe" http://goo.gl/fb/TiqZ6 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

Twitterstorm delong: November 28, 2011

• Felix Salmon on "Margin Call": Whom Are the Financial Oligarchs Exploiting? http://bit.ly/rxt8cO 11 hours ago Favorite Reply Delete

• An xkcd Cartoon for Josh Barro Tonight http://bit.ly/uVoAxG 20 hours ago

• EpicureanDeal Epicurean Dealmaker Um, I understand the outrage and all, but you realize that a Lender of Last Resort sometimes has to lend as a last resort, right? Also, 22 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• davidcolburn David Colburn Gandhi, revised: First they ignore u, then they laugh at u, then they fight u, then u have internal feuds over tactics & process, then u win 24 Nov Retweeted by delong

• MattZeitlin Matt Zeitlin People who whine about not teaching "Western Civilization" want it to be taught in a way, for any other culture, they would say was oh-so-PC 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• digby56 digby RT @davidfrum: If Euro crashes, we spiral toward global depression.Not political story, and Americans must pay attention./#weluvblackfriday! 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• tanehisi Ta-Nehisi Coates I moved out the hood and now have three farmer's markets nearby. Cats say the freshness of ingredients. The is beyond true. It's actually morally wrong how true this is. All carrots are not created equal. And for those who are tracking, Yes I have gone to full hipster snob mode. I put in my 35. I'm done with the hood. And black people. Except my son. And dude in the White House. Still waitin on that reparations... 27 Nov Retweeted by delong

• phillipanderson phillip anderson Holy fuck. We suck. RT@thinkprogress: The average age of a homeless person in the United States is seven years old. http://thkpr.gs/uu2wGt 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• FrankPasquale Frank Pasquale @ @ModeledBehavior @delong Gawker called it early: no chance of improvement here: http://gawker.com/frank-bruni/ time to ignore the Times 27 Nov Retweeted by delong

• felixsalmon felix salmon Munchau: "the eurozone has 10 days at most": http://on.ft.com/uPwnsE 27 Nov Retweeted by delong

• Hilzoy on What Is Missing from Donald Kagan's Padded Cell http://bit.ly/w1Zj0F 27 Nov

• amy_vrwc Amy Miller @ When I start agreeing with @EricBoehlert on things...that's when you know things have really gone off the rails. #occupyButterball 27 Nov Retweeted by delong

• Nouriel Nouriel Roubini It took 4 mths to convince core EZ parliaments to approve modified 440bn EFSF. How long - 1yr? - to have them vote a €1tr ESM, 2X original? 27 Nov Retweeted by delong

• attackerman attackerman You can imagine the frustration that motivated Drezner to write this one. PS: I am an American liberal, and I... http://fb.me/1rzBHxrC3 27 Nov Retweeted by delong

TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal RT @ReformedBroker: But let's not forget the classic version: 4 Simple Steps to Becoming a Billionaire bit.ly/aN2cFo 27 Nov

Twitterstorm delong: November 27, 2011

• rote_fahne Mark RT @delong: Union Bosses Endorse Newt Gingrich! http://bit.ly/tkHmUA an amusing level of cluelessness in the twitterverse 3 hours ago

• FrankPasquale Frank Pasquale @ @ModeledBehavior @delong Gawker called it early: no chance of improvement here: http://gawker.com/frank-bruni/ time to ignore the Times 4 hours ago

• TheStalwart Joseph Weisenthal @ @felixsalmon @delong Yea, I've never understood the premise of journalists picking stocks. 5 hours ago

• newspyre newspyre Thinking the unthinkable on a euro break-up http://ow.ly/7GiGl rt @delong: #LOL @ Neil Sedaka quote. 6 hours ago

• SMKPoliticus Sean M. Kelly @ @delong Astonished Merkel might allow #ECB to act aggressively, Sarkozy gestures to confirm he has not misheard. #euro http://pic.twitter.com/o5xSiSRN 23 hours ago

• hughsansom Hugh Sansom v @delong RT @zunguzungu: "A few violent shoppers are going to discredit the entire shopping movement." Wish I'd made that up. 26 Nov

• yorksranter Alex Harrowell John Naughton is ignorant! Unaware that cars have had electronic engine management since 1980s or that petrolheads hack them ever since 39 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• Paul Krugman: Sweden Is Not in the Eurozone and Is Fine; Finland Is in the Eurozone and Is Not http://bit.ly/s6yk4l 3 hours ago

• cstross Charles Stross Have just wasted two hours reading about super-heavy tank designs, like the 1000 ton Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• Paul Starr: Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care http://t.co/rFlGgiq0 5 hours ago

• ModeledBehavior Modeled Behavior My mind angrily screams "WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS?!?". Can u imagine forwarding a Bruni op-ed to a friend and saying "Wow, read this"? 5 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• beat_the_press Dean Baker RT @jschmittwdc It takes a village to raise Casey Mulligan. Shawn Fremstad's turn to babysit. http://is.gd/I4N1w4 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EricBoehlert Eric Boehlert interesting that in all the Newt media chatter v. little discussion if he's nominee, Obama wins 35-40 states; #wrongnarrative #tcot 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady @ @ggreenwald "Greenwald is correct, but why does he have to be so angry/abrasive/confrontational," etc @meemeemoomoo 7 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong A Stray Thought or Two on Banking Recapitalization http://bit.ly/vyIxMC 10 hours ago

• SuzyKhimm Suzy Khimm Also: my twitter app autocorrects "tweeps" to "twerps." #autosarcasm 19 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• EconOfContempt EconOfContempt Bill Clinton says GOP primary environment "basically means you can't be authentic unless you've got a single-digit IQ" http://nyti.ms/t9nJpO 20 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @ModeledBehavior Kind of a silly question. Tax deductibility (i) reduces cost (ii) if and only if you pool. Pooling is generally good. Price below marginal cost generally bad. Have to weigh one against the other. If no mandate, not an unreasonable policy. 21 hours ago

• jbarro Josh Barro "I'm calling you a sinner, but not in a discriminating or harassing way." God, I'm glad I live near the coast. http://bit.ly/sYBh13 26 Nov Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza RT @Channel11News: Tonight at 11: We'll talk 2 woman who was attacked w/waffle iron while trying 2 buy discount pepper spray on #blackfriday 26 Nov Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady The trouble with conspiracies is that they create paper trails. Better to create a police culture where orders never need to be given. 26 Nov Favorite Undo Retweet Reply Retweeted by delong

Twitterstorm delong: November 26, 2011

• jbarro Josh Barro "I'm calling you a sinner, but not in a discriminating or harassing way." God, I'm glad I live near the coast. http://bit.ly/sYBh13 25 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• RyanLizza Ryan Lizza RT @Channel11News: Tonight at 11: We'll talk 2 woman who was attacked w/waffle iron while trying 2 buy discount pepper spray on #blackfriday 16 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady The trouble with conspiracies is that they create paper trails. Better to create a police culture where orders never need to be given. 14 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady By the way, this barrage of tweeting comes to you courtesy of my new macbook, which has two things my old computer lacked: 13 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• zunguzungu Aaron Bady a battery that could go for more than ten minutes and a functional wireless card. Also Thile/Ma/Duncan/Mayer's "Goat Rodeo Sessions." 12 minutes ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Where Does Richard Tol's Claim That Tokyo Today Is 16 Feet Lower Relative To Sea Level Than It Was in 1900 Comes From? http://bit.ly/tCLdz0 1 hour ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Over on the Crooked Timber Comments, Richard Tol Nominates Himself for This Year's Stupidest Known Animal Award http://bit.ly/txKMmT 1 hour ago

• TPC: Income Tax Paid at Each Tax Rate, 1958-2009 http://t.co/60zm9IYn1 hour ago

• emptywheel emptywheel RT @jaketapper: Helluva day the president picked to buy Ahmed Rashid's Descent into Chaos... 2 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• delong J. Bradford DeLong #occupyzunguzungu http://bit.ly/s3QiXH 1 hour ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @DougHenwood @moetkacik Say, rather, that Bernanke steps that would compensate for SFT are the fiscal policy that dare not speak its name 2 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong @ @DougHenwood @moetkacik Not $2T! $3T! But Jan Hatzius wants them to take it to $5T and change the target. Bernanke not going to do that 2 hours ago

• JustinWolfers Justin Wolfers I'm certain I am. Well, not certain, but pretty sure. RT @bakadesuyo: Are you dangerously overconfident? http://ht.ly/7FHM5 4 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• digby56 digby MT @tbogg: @meYou know, Newt didn't have to use a teleprompter to tell his wife he was leaving her when she was in the hospital with cancer. 3 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• The legend of Joe's Taco Lounge http://joestacolounge.com/our-story.html 4 hours ago

• David Frum: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? http://t.co/pHT011b2 5 hours ago

• delong J. Bradford DeLong Leon Trotsky (1931): Against National Communism! http://t.co/usGbnqtH 5 hours ago

• thegarance Garance Franke-Ruta The only part of this 1979 living room of the future missing today is the domestic robot w drinks: http://bit.ly/s37YME 6 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• U.C. Davis Lt. Pike Pepperspray Blogging http://bit.ly/sHtk6Q 7 hours ago

• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1932 http://bit.ly/vJebla

• tomtomorrow Tom Tomorrow If you are just getting in from an evening of drinking, please be sure to unburden your soul on twitter before bed. What could go wrong? 13 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• hblodget Henry Blodget RT @JBennet: Yes, I did just persuade our son to come to dinner by saying, 'Your book can charge while we're eating.' 23 hours ago Retweeted by delong

• sidewalkperspec Chris MT @delong: You Could Write an Entire Washington Post Article Quoting People Who Are Lying without Telling Your Readers http://bit.ly/snpLUi

Twitterstorm delong: November 25, 2011

• Damned If I Understand What the US Treasury and Fed Are Doing--or, Rather, Not Doing Right Now http://bit.ly/t8SBN4 13 minutes ago

• Joe's Taco Lounge http://joestacolounge.com 1 hour ago

• Paul Krugman Sends Us to Martin Wolf on Death By Accounting Identity http://bit.ly/uXPzjF #UK #US #FiscalDeficit 3 hours ago

• Manufacturing quality collateral: Izabella Kaminska http://t.co/1QvTnuGU 4 hours ago

• martinmcgrath Martin McGrath How Marx and Engels over-estimated the bourgeoisie http://bit.ly/vShxXS 4 hours ago

• @DougHenwood @delong modern IMF is to ECB, as Keynes is to montagu norman? 5 hours ago

• Panglossnotes Geoff H Seems even some conservatives are becoming ashamed to call themselves such with likes of buffoons like Cameron around. http://j.mp/tL0sYj 5 hours ago

• DougHenwood Doug Henwood @ @delong Is there a rationality to German behavior that eludes us? I keep thinking there must be, but it remains elusive. 5 hours ago

• econblogs Jeegar Kakkad Grasping Reality: At the Birth of Central Banking: The Lender of Last Resort: Bank of England Court Member Jeremiah ... http://ow.ly/1fPNe2 6 hours ago

• John Muellbauer: "How Germany could save the euro" http://t.co/oKAcybiM 6 hours ago

• @felixsalmon Pet Peeve: Financial reporters who assign/create reasons as to why the markets are up or down. 6 hours ago

• PaulHenriCadier Paul_Henri_Cadier “@ProfPaulKrugman: Nick Rowe: Magneto Trouble http://bit.ly/vcJueF EURO not assymetric tsunami-proof..alas! #UKIP #No2EU #EUSSR #mundell 6 hours ago

• Danny Kahneman: 'We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to' http://t.co/bFC4db2q 7 hours ago

• Tim Duy: "From Bad to Worse" http://t.co/bfeGnfvO 7 hours ago

• econblogs Jeegar Kakkad Grasping Reality: Turkey Day Has Depressed Duncan Black... http://ow.ly/1fPIIl 7 hours ago

• Dani Rodrik on large-scale evidence forgery by the Turkish government rhttp://t.co/kzXHiULn 8 hours ago

• shermandorn Sherman Dorn @ Evidently, Europeans are big into Buy Nothing Day, at least where sovereign bonds are concerned @delong 8 hours ago

• Henry Blodget: "European Banks Frantically Trying To Dump $7 Trillion Of Crap Assets -- But No One Will Buy Them"http://t.co/PK0gW7SY 8 hours ago

• Liquidation cycles. Brad DeLong tries to understand the reasoning of the p... http://bit.ly/rXqtU8 9 hours ago

• _later later 354 likes: Three Flavors of the Economic Crisis: Three Flavors of the Economic Crisis #debate - http://delong… http://goo.gl/fb/kKhOK 22 hours ago

• Shame on the New York Times http://bit.ly/viQs88 24 Nov

• keanna007 Keanna D Buckett You don't bring a gun to a marshmellow roast.. --Candice Delong 24 Nov

• Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" http://ow.ly/1fOGRh 24 Nov

• plungerman Bender Rodríguez RT @jayrosen_nyu: not Paul Kane's first time at the "we're stenographers: you got a friggin' problem with that?" rodeo. http://bit.ly/ssj7W4 24 Nov

• eltoro666 Timur Coban At the Very Least, the Fed and the Treasury Need to Flood the RIsk ... http://bit.ly/w1SyYa 24 Nov