Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters  —  Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that's meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that's become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences  —  Romney and Cain closely matched near 20%, with Perry at 15%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Herman Cain has surged to 18%, their support for Rick Perry has sagged to 15%, and their support for Mitt Romney remains relatively stable at 20%.

Trying to restore Senate comity  —  Democrats have one overriding objective this Congress: to create jobs and get our economy back on track.  But our Republican colleagues are so dead set on preventing Democrats from passing job-creating legislation that they have been willing to abuse …

A Nobel for Non-Keynesians  —  People's expectations about government policy make it difficult for officials to affect the economy in the ways they intend to.  —  On Monday the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics: Thomas J. Sargent of New York University …

Boston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores arrested  —  Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning.  —  At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue.

The legacy of Steve Jobs  —  Before reading this, you should know the following: I do not own an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod or a Mac.  I abandoned my typewriter only recently.  In short, I have not enlisted in the digital revolution and have kept my involvement to a desktop computer, e-mail and the Internet.

UK seeing a big rise in poverty, says IFS  —  Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.  —  The IFS forecasts two years “dominated by a large decline” in incomes, pushing 600,000 more children into poverty,

Pelosi's disclosure belated in husband's land deal  —  Partner is father of favored envoy  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California …

Warren raises $3.15M; Brown raises $1.55M  —  Elizabeth Warren raised more than $3 million in a little more than six weeks to fund her Senate bid in Massachusetts — more than twice the figure pulled in by incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).  —  The astounding figure anchors the notion …

Sign Of The Times  —  Macro in the park.  —  It's not centrist when Democrats do it.  —  Go Princeton!  (And NYU)  —  All hail the new laureates.  —  Financial Romanticism  —  Laissez-faire won't work.  —  October 09  —  Was Failure Inevitable?  —  Maybe, but trying couldn't and can't hurt.

God Told Me To Run … GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said Monday he didn't want to run for president, but God called him to join the race.  —  The Republican candidate told CBN News that's why he believes “God's been in this from the beginning.”  —  Cain said that when he felt God calling …