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Timothy Noah, Thomas E. RicksPolitics, economics, domestic policy, and a smattering of culture.
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Can the Newspaper Obituary Hang On?
Obituaries, RIP?
I’ve written obituaries for Jimmy Carter, Charlie Peters, the telephone call, Teddy Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, and one or two people who aren’t dead yet. Also an arguably tasteless parody obituary fo...
TACO, RIP
No, not that kind of bond.
Bonds are in the news. The market in Treasury bonds was going nuts so Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled the government’s planned purchase of long-term Treasuries to bring yields down. But it was a sh...
Trump Is The Money-Launderer’s Best Friend
Fredo Corleone.
Earlier this month the Treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule ending the obligation of businesses and individuals to report information about “beneficial ownership” (i....
Psst. Firing Bureaucrats Increases the Deficit.
Max Steier, chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, in 2013.
Kevin Hassett was on Fox Business the other day carping that the Congressional Budget Office, in projecting a budget deficit this year exceeding $2 trillion,...
How Private Insurers Got Greedy
Edward G. Robinson as an amiable but relentless claims adjuster for the Pacific All Risk Insurance Company in “Double Indemnity” (1944).
It’s really hard to identify a single Billy Wilder film as his best, but Double Indemnity is pre...
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Backbencher jefe; New Republic staff writer; author, "The Great Divergence." Former Politico, Slate, Wall Street Journal, US News, Washington Monthly, etc.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former military correspondent for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of 11 books, the next being, "Big Money, Small Town," a novel about the oligarchy squashing a small town in the Maine woods.
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