Grasping Reality by Brad DeLong

• 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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