links for 2009-04-30
Best Thing on the Financial Crisis: Barry Eichengreen: The Last Temptation of Risk

Yes, Byron York *Is* This Stupid

Byron York:

Beltway Confidential: The black-white divide in Obama's popularity: [T]he president['s]... sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.... Those opinion differences are clear in the traditional "right track-wrong track" question, a key indicator of the public's mood. Thirty-four percent of whites say the country is headed in the right direction, while 56 percent believe it is "seriously off track." For black Americans, 70 percent say the country is headed in the right direction, with just 23 percent saying it is off track...

For York, "actually" means "what white people think."

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

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