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What is the Economic Middle Class?

…family well above the 95th percentile.  In fact, that is just enough household income to crack the top 2%. My ongoing hobby of debunking right wing nonsense aside, the point…

Answers: Taking IOR to Zero

…held market-monetarist theory. In any case it deserves unequivocal debunking. So: Numerous cogent and convincing commenters agree that taking IOR to zero would have negligible first-order effects on lending and…

Obama and CNN : Alert to?

…honest, a right-wing blog). This is currently on CNN.com. And just today (in a very interesting exchange with the Cleveland Jewish community) Obama was touting CNN’s piece debunking the notion…

I Want Six Weeks Vacation Too

…other things, a debunking of the NY Times’ frequent calls for Europeans to work harder, roll back their welfare state, and generally act more like Americans. I’m not sure if…

…report. The panel found that Wilson’s report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts. And contrary…