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I Blame This on the NHL

With all the talk of “Detroit,” you would think that Michigan would have lost the most employees, as a percentage of same, on the year. After all, the scariest graph…

One of These Things is Not Like the Others

…2.8% I don’t know about anyone else, but I wouldn’t be celebrating the wage “gains” of the current era. (And let’s not even talk about actual wages received, since Barry…

That 3.5% rise in GDP

…not see it in their business. I think this GDP rise, “we’re out of the recession” was just more of the inside the beltway pundit MSM happy talk. How else…

Schizzo Welfare Economics

…any other tax to a lump sum poll tax will cause a Pareto improvement. It removes distortions to incentives and, with such a tax, everyone is perfectly equal. This gives…

Wired for sterotypes and stereotypical responses?

…(a female plumber). “Results revealed that with explicit labeling, older adults were able to discount their stereotypes and avoid processing difficulties when subsequent stereotype-inconsistent information was encountered,” the researchers write….

TARP, Yet Again: Inflationary?

…of dollars of toxic mortgages. But it got nice headlines at the end of August, when talk of “green shoots” and “inflation fears”needed to get momentum. Featured less prominently is…