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Jared Bernstein's Take On SOTU at Rolling Stone
By Richard Day on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 5:08pm |I attempt to sell Rolling Stone and Matt Taibbi all the time.
But this journalist--Bernstein--really does the job today.
Bernstein's take on the State of the Union is GREAAAAAAT! (citing Tony Tiger)
He breaks down the speech into specific pronouncements.
If I were in power, I would have a blogger from Rolling Stone as advisor.
Anyway, a great read and I knew not where else to post this advertisement.
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If I were in power, I would have a blogger from Rolling Stone as advisor.
Dick, it's almost the other way around with Jared (who is not really a journalist, BTW, but an economist who likes to blog)--
from Jan. 20, 2009 thru 2011, he was Vice President Biden's Chief Economist; also he was rather involved with the auto bailout task force so naturally he would be proud of Obama mentioning that in the SOTU. He left the administration by choice in good standing.
Actually, now that you cite this, I recognize at lot of "Jared Bernstein" style economics in the SOTU, so it's no wonder he liked it. Back in the olden days at TPMCafe (pre-2008, and also through 2008), Jared also was a columnist on economics there, and I was a bit of a fan. I remember very much preferring his writing to Dean Baker's, who was also writing there at the time, in that he really had a knack of explaining economic issues in plain conversational and friendly language. He also interacted a lot more with reader comments than Baker did. He's got excellent "blog communication" skills for an economist, mho, I remember feeling that way back in the days he was posting at TPMCafe.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:43pm
This is a good example of a Jared blog entry on TPM Cafe (unfortunately it's hard to read because the archive is so screwed up there that the punctuation codes are inserting crazy characters into the text) It's a good example of why I preferred his writing to a lot of other economists. It's wasn't so much about his POV, but more because he adds stuff like this: I provide this public service because a) there's a lot of misunderstanding of the basic principles regarding economic stimulus, and b) it's a good way to avoid doing stuff I should be doing. One could never imagine Dean Baker talking like that; Jared's posts were often casual, conversational, sometimes self-deprecating, and not so much the "in your face" lecturing or "preaching from on high" that some economist bloggers do.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 6:55pm
Krugman is a hero of mine, of course.
I knew little of Jared's history before this short post.
You know what you do?
You really look into things rather quickly.
Good points as always.
I was a little off the mark since it would have behooved him to have spent more time than a few paragraphs to dissect the SOTU messages.
I just was taken by what he wrote.
Which provided me with more insight than the wasted hours presented on cable.
by Richard Day on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 10:16pm