What do you think Nixon would say?

http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/census-faked-2012-election-jobs-report/

Can China learn from Britain? Probably not. They are looking forward to a de-Americanized world.

http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2013/11/08/professor-barry-eichengreen-chinese-industrialization-and-its-discontents/

It seems to me as I think of it briefly that China is in the middle of the classic Austrian over-investment cycle with all the nastiness still to come that Hayek and Ludwig von

Mises talked about. I have under-appreciated this school of thought in my career and it seems to me China is teeing it up.

Sophie's Debut

My new dog Sophie had her first hunt last Saturday. It was a great success. I am looking forward to many years of hunting with her. When she is finished hunting...I'll be on Medicare if the age stays at 65 which it should not.

"I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it". Welcome home Leona Helmsley.

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-next-obamacare-fiasco.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGrumpyEconomist+%28The+Grumpy+Economist%29

You know when she comes out, I don't mean it to be very nice.

Neat graphic on the break down of what we owe to whom....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/10/230944425/everyone-the-u-s-government-owes-money-to-in-one-graph?ft=1&f=1006

Money Rates comes knocking on the ECU door.

http://www.money-rates.com/research-center/money-perspectives/fed-acted-correctly-interest-rates.htm

How do the bookies make money?

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/how-do-bookies-make-money-sports-betting

I just did the math....

...with a $775 billion deficit we are borrowing $47, 564.68 a second.

Mike Ditka....and what could have been.

http://deadspin.com/mike-ditkas-biggest-mistake-was-letting-obama-become-1443109185?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

It knows no boundries.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-shutdown-hits-econonerds.html