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15 May 2023, 8:00 am
It was also, for a brief period of time, a Type Two crisis as well, because then-president James Buchanan took the position that although secession was illegal, there wasn't anything he could do to stop it. [read post]
14 May 2023, 9:00 pm
We would be delighted if the debt ceiling truly were a mere paper tiger that could be easily shredded by stamping “$3 trillion” on a piece of platinum or issuing bonds with a face value of one dollar but sold for a hundred dollars each because they offer 40,100 percent in interest (which is the rate Treasury would need to offer to reproduce the payback on a conventional 3-month hundred-dollar T-bill that pays the roughly 5 percent current interest rate). [read post]
14 May 2023, 9:00 pm
Buchanan and Michael C. [read post]
14 May 2023, 2:31 pm
One was with Mike Dorf, who along with Neil Buchanan has done the best academic work on this topic—even if I don’t agree with them on absolutely everything, a considerable chunk of what you are reading from me about the debt ceiling consists of their foundational insights. [read post]
11 May 2023, 1:50 pm
Buchanan The dangerous insanity of the Republicans' hostage-taking via the debt ceiling continues apace. [read post]
11 May 2023, 6:30 am
President Biden doesn’t get to pick and choose about spending this money. [read post]
10 May 2023, 6:02 am
" I don't doubt that it would be litigated. [read post]
9 May 2023, 4:42 am
Indeed, they don't even make it to the level of Islamic finance. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:01 pm
When one of the current authors (Buchanan) used to teach economics courses at the university level, consols were a favorite hypothetical financial instrument, because the arithmetic for determining their value is shockingly simple. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:21 am
., Vern Buchanan, R-Fla, and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. [read post]
8 May 2023, 4:20 am
Thus, I didn't watch much of the coronation ceremony of King Charles III. [read post]
3 May 2023, 11:08 am
" Even so, "although the Buchanan/Dorf approach does not in any way depend on the Fourteenth Amendment, we don't disagree with the Fourteenth Amendment argument. [read post]
1 May 2023, 9:01 pm
These insults echo one pro-Coin writer’s assertion early this year that “a lot of dull-witted pundits are going to say [that you] can’t just mint a magic coin, it’s a total gimmick, this is crazy talk. [read post]
1 May 2023, 9:00 pm
Buchanan and Michael C. [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 5:46 am
If we think corporations shouldn't have free speech rights, surely that means they shouldn't have free speech rights regardless of whether we agree or disagree with what they want to say.For myself, I have never been persuaded by the broad critique of Citizens United and other cases that grant corporations free speech. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
’” The OutLaws’ statement begins with some harrowing context: [T]rans and queer people are under attack: A record 19 anti-LGBTQ+ bills passed last year, and 24 of the 451 introduced across the U.S. this year have been signed into law. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 8:19 am
Disney did not do anything other than issue a statement, and the words in that statement (which were too mild and came notably late, I would add) criticized the then-new "Don't Say Gay" bill. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 12:05 am
Buchanan (Florida), A Public Statement About Law Students (and Others) Acting Like Children, from a Fictional University President— Or, the Stanford Incident is Not What You Think (Apr, 13, 2023): [T]he current cause célèbre among those who claim that American universities have been overrun by “illiberal leftist extremists”... [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 11:27 am
In shorthand, my argument was a variation on the dependence/use distinction, amounting to this: Won't doesn't mean can't. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 3:47 am
But I fear it won’t make nearly as much difference as some hope. [read post]
