Akkam’s Razor

One of the subjects that I did horribly in during my undergraduate years was Economics - both micro and macro.  As such, it's been a subject that I am now fascinated with.

There's always some interested economic themed stuff out there, and a gaggle of blogs that focusing exclusively on the subject.

The New Economist points to a Brad DeLong writeup in Salon, as well as several others, all pointed to signs of a coming recession, or worse.  They also link to an econblog roundup in "The Economist".

Economists View, in a review of a paper knocking the Bush Administrations plan for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) uncovers some bullet points for the Republican's gameplan for the midterm elections:

1. Undermine the credibility of the liberal, ivory-tower, America hating researchers.
2. Create fear that without this legislation, the country will go bankrupt.
3. Mention France as often as possible.
4. Pay for Op-Eds taking the opposite viewpoint.
5. Explain how cutting taxes will fix this problem.
6. Have sympathetic think tanks issue position papers clouding the issue.
7. Blame lawyers.
8. Get right-wing advocacy groups to issue supportive statements to their members.
9. Blame Democrats for the problem, and for blocking the solution.
10. Explain how failure to support HSAs, and hence the president, undermines the war on terror and the troops.
11. Say it's all Clinton's fault [from comments]. Either Clinton will do.

Robert Reich points out that all global problems are all part of one, big, interconnected mess.