It’s pretty obvious: because it would undermine their entire philosophy. And no, there is no debate among researchers over the genetic, race and class composition of IQ. That debate is …
Break up the eurozone. That’s what should be done. Why create another even more totalitarian bureaucracy that abuses our freedoms in europe to match the one in the USA? The …
Paul Quotes David Frum saying: Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole …
On the Economist’s View, a Dr Why, a commenter says In the United States, countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies redistribute income mainly from the rich to the poor, which is …
On Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Nick Rowe asks “Why isn’t NGDP targeting a lefty thing?” and asks why the right seems to support it, instead of supporting inflation targeting. My reply …
Predicting Bubbles on Modeled Behavior: I think we can see and measure booms and bubbles. I just think we’re lying to ourselves when we say we want to stop them. …
The assertion that Europe’s crisis proves that the welfare state doesn’t work comes from many Republicans. … The idea, presumably, is that the crisis countries are in trouble because they’re …
from Modeled Behavior on the Jobs Report …here is the long-run trend on private sector service sector employment. Notice that its just as strong as the last recovery though coming …
In, How to Detect an Asset Bubble, Robert Jarrow, Younes Kchia and Philip Protter describe the method by which asset bubbles can be deduced from the asymptotic behavior of prices. …
Rick writes: RE: “One big one is accelerated depreciation that lets them write off equipment faster than it actually wears out. Deductions on executive stock options help. So do tax …
On a facebook conversation Ron writes: Capitalism and Socialism have become emotionally charged misrepresentations of their ideals, so I won’t go there. Profit is not a driver, it is a …
Vanessa Friedman of the Financial Times writes about her frustration that the ‘Best Dressed Lists’ actually contain the ‘most influential people’, not the best dressed. See Is Kate Middleton best-dressed …
