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Brendan Nyhan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Kinsley is a brilliant writer, but sometimes it's possible to be too glib. Take, for instance, his monocausal explanation in The Atlantic of the decline in trust in civic institutions and government: Furthermore, as Samuelson notes, the damage is...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
The greatest benefit of moderating a session at the Magazine Publishers Association conference on e-reading today was the chance to witness Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley’s induction into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. I caught his wry acceptance on video but missed the chance to record Nicholas Lemann’s touching introduction of the man a lot of people think...
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
Michael Kinsley has broken with the insane spenders of his party — and the other party. He is having inflation nightmares. And well he might. His viewpoint is much less rare than he imagines, if he would poke his head outside the Beltway. But this is a start.
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
Ahem: My Inflation Nightmare. If Kinsley seriously believes that inflation is on the way, he and his wife could take their entire household portfolio and go short 20-year Treasury bonds @4.43% and long 20-year TIPS @2.11%. Each year over the next 20 that inflation is above 2.32% they make money. I'm not one who pledges to always believe that markets have gotten it right. But I do believe that...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
The American Society of Magazine Editors and the Journalism School at Columbia University today announced the winners of the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Today's event, held at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in midtown, was the first ever ASME award ceremony honoring achievements in digital media. The big winner of the day was Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley...
Mises Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Michael Kinsley writes in The Atlantic that he’s worried about inflation. “Inflation turns life into Through the Looking-Glass: you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place,” writes Kinsley reminding me of Paul Cantor’s “Hyperinflation and Hyperreality,” just one of the great essays in Literature and the Economics of Liberty. Join...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
... for blogging, and Sports Illustrated for best regular section. The speech of the day, however, was Michael Kinsley’s hilarious response as he was inducted into the Magazine Editor Hall of Fame, in which he self-deprecatingly recounted his "five minutes" as editor of the New Yorker — while S.I. Newhouse looked impassively on. [ magazine.org ] Read more posts by...
Gus Van Horn (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
... is Exactly the Right Term In an article titled, "My Inflation Nightmare," Michael Kinsley names the elephant in everyone's living rooms. Compared with raising taxes or cutting spending, just letting inflation do the dirty work sounds easy. It will be a terrible temptation, and Obama's historic reputation (not to mention the welfare of the nation) will depend on whether he...
kevin drum (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
Matt Yglesias notes that Michael Kinsley has a strange column in the Atlantic this month ( "My Inflation Nightmare" ) warning about the possibility of runaway inflation in our future. I read it a few days ago and shrugged. But it stuck with me anyway. Here's Matt: What’s strange about the column is that I don’t know how I could possibly refute it. Kinsley...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
... into Better Health," followed by a Q&A session. The panel is to be moderated by Michael Kinsley of The Atlantic.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
Michael Kinsley at the Atlantic is worried that more people aren't worried about inflation, and is sharp on what sucks about it: A stable currency is firm ground on which you can build a life. Inflation turns life into Through the Looking-Glass : you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place. Saving is for suckers, and money needs to be spent sooner rather than later. Planning...
Boston Gal's Open Wallet (Free subscription) | 03/14/2010
The Atlantic article: My Inflation Nightmare has reporter Michael Kinsley wondering if prudent savers, already feeling the hurt of low interest rates in the current recession, might soon face the graver danger of saving erosion if inflation picks up. My specific concern is nothing original: it’s just the national debt. Yawn and turn the page here if you’d like. We talk now...