Bloggingheads TV, someone I know....

My friend Reihan Salam, the svengali behind The American Scene, is on blogginghead.tv talking about the primary races. Reihan often has a high signal to noise ratio in large part because of his low analysis to data ratio.1 He's chatting with Chris Hayes, who wrote up a really interesting piece on heterodox economics in The Nation this spring. Check it out.

1 - That is, unlike many people he is a compulsive collector of data.

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