Silver offers a rigorous exploration of the central point made in the NYT article I linked for the post I wrote yesterday. He approaches the question on the relationship between the unemployment rat
This could be problematic. I’ve been fairly sanguine about Obama’s re-election chances, but no incumbent has been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 7.2% since FDR (and the 7.2% b
Lesson of the day: Things are always fine if you’re a white male with a college degree, age 25-44. I suspect that if it had asked how many college degrees I have, the unemployment rate would hav
Glenzilla is shrill. The primary function of our political elites is to protect the financial interests of our economic elites. Of course that that has always been more or less the case, but the cruci
The other day I posted about banks’ decisions to stop providing loans to college students at “non-elite” universities and college. I suggested that it is decisions like these that he