One last Ponnuru health care post: You call that radical?

I don’t think there’s a whole lot of reader overlap between The Corner and the Curious Capitalist, so here’s the bulk of Ramesh Ponnuru’s latest response to my response to his response to my critique of his inaugural Time column: The tax break for employer-provided coverage would stay on the books, although it would be [...]

Are you ready for another Nixon shock?

Ultimately, what we are witnessing is a second Nixon shock played out in slow motion. And the Fed’s dual mandate ensures that John Connally’s remark from 1971 holds true today: “the dollar is our currency, but your problem.” That’s from a post by Macro Man, a trader who appears to know what he’s talking about. [...]