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The near government shutdown as an episode of House

by tom acox on April 11, 2011

You know, seemingly deadly disease and description of disease, in this case debt that isn’t actually pushing up our borrowing costs. (Commercial/Tweet from Matt Yglesias). We think we know what to do but we will have to try lots of (…)

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Better Know Detroit’s Grocers

by tom acox on October 26, 2010

Via Ezra Klein The scariest sentence I’ve read today There are no chain grocery stores in all of Detroit. And here’s the runner-up: As a reporter, I’ve worked from New York to St. Louis to Los Angeles, and Detroit is (…)

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