Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Jon Chait notes that even David Brooks has bought into the idea that Democrats have screwed ...

Barry Ritholz destroys the myth that the market hates uncertainty: A closer look at this uncertainty meme reveals it to be a false-ism — one of those emotionally appealing phrases that ping around ...

The uncertainty meme is just mind boggling. Businesses always have a certain amount of regulatory uncertainty to deal with, and there’s simply no evidence that this uncertainty is any greater now than ...