Category: Kevin Drum

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let’s just finish up with all the charts I have today, OK? Then I’ll go to lunch, and maybe I’ll come back with some ideas for less analytical posts. The stock market has gone crackers this month. Here’s the growth rate of the S&P 500…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve got nothing but charts for you today. Sorry about that. But I might as well get them out of my system. Here’s one that Dave Roberts is excited about. It shows the average bid response to a request for new power plants from Colorado’s…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t want to spend forever on the controversy over the World Bank’s “Doing Business” rankings, but Paul Romer put up a post today that shows what kind of effect the new ranking methodology had on Chile. Here it is: The new rankings (light orange)…

Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve long supported the idea of making a deal that would give President Trump a piece of his wall in return for legislative authorization of DACA. But it turns out that Democrats were prepared to offer him even more: not…

Tong Wu/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s hard keeping up with conservative conspiracy theories. Did you know that for the past week the usual suspects (Hannity, Drudge, etc.) have been circulating the bombshell news that we now have PROOF the FBI was conspiring against Donald Trump during…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the Daily Beast, criminologist Barry Latzer writes that murder is down in New York and is likely to stay down. Why? Because young men are responsible for most murders (true) and the population of young men has declined since the baby boom years (also…