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From Ed Klein's THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY -- "My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away frm the White House for the rest of her life," writes Bradford DeLong, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury during the first Clinton administration. "Heading up health-care reform was the only major adminstrative job she ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance,...

October 08, 2003 Nobel Prize Rumor du Jour The rumor is that it is going to be Jagdish Bhagwati and Paul Krugman for work on international trade. Nope. Clive Granger and Robert Engle. Reuters reports: "U.S. economist Robert Engle and Britain's Clive Granger have won the 2003 Nobel economics prize for inventing models used to evaluate investment risk and study the relations between simultaneous economic phenomena. 'This year's Laureates devised new statistical methods for dealing with two key properties of many economic time series: time-varying volatility and non-stationarity,' the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday. The two...