…vaginal creams. The controversy There may be some validity to a limited change in the label of female hormone replacement products. The original study showing the potential for harm from…

…MSNBC, and others. And more, most of it indicative of a desire to have state-controlled media instead of a free press. “FCC Broadcast Accountability” came under the label of “Reform.”…

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

…was on page 257 of a previous edition): UPDATE: I wasn’t clear enough in my initial post, so I’m pulling vtcodger from comments: Mankiw has a chart there. The label…

…is one of the prime rationales for government austerity. “Before Keynes,” explained Alan Blinder and Robert Solow in a 1973 paper: …it was commonplace that government spending and taxation were…

…formula for figuring the cost of living ends up reducing the money citizens will receive in their SS checks. One of our commenters, Denis Drew labeled it the Cascading CPI….

…Krugman on his NYT blog, in which he discusses Alan Krueger’s speech last week. Krugman’s blog entry says: “Alan Krueger, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers … gave…

Matt Stoller, the former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute has a couple of very interesting articles posted at Naked Capitalism, Why…

…CalPundit had a post on Sunday, THREE CARD MONTE WITH ALAN GREENSPAN, which made the same observation and concluded, “A normal person would at least be embarrassed by all this….

…Robert J. Gordon, and Alan Blinder. 2. Tax Incentives. When economists address tax policy, they often speak of “distortions.” The implied claim is that distortions are bad, and should be…