…1 study. Absurdly, the NIH hasn’t been able to find $6 million in its huge budget, because they had forecast an even huger budget and basically committed the money. Now…

…engineers — well what would you do ? I’m new to this blog, so I note my ignorance without apology. What is your current policy proposal (say you became 218…

by cactus Hubbard’s New Nonsense The only thing that comes to mind after reading this from James Kwak (hat tip: Mark Thoma is WTF: After seeing dozens of mortgage proposals…

…insurance trade association will support reform only if there is a mandate. When bargaining it is useful to start with a proposal which scares the counter-parties. The health care proposal…

…New Reform Proposal The post does not link to the plan itself but instead to a detailed scoring of it by the Office of the Chief Actuary in a memo…

…truly unhelpful. This is panicky, not constructive: It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the Administration’s proposal. I do not believe that the plan on the…

…need a year or so to develop a Boeing 777 or 747 proposal. In effect Boeing said: if you want to replace the underused KC-10 fleet instead of replacing the…

…Sam to the tune of billions as their profits skyrocket. The proposal to effectively increase the corporate tax rate on a specific industry is unwise because consumers will pay for…

…the other chapters. Meanwhile, our agent has been sniffing out publishers. Recently, he chatted one up who was interested in seeing our proposal. So we’ve written and rewritten and rewritten…

…Security Reform: Strategies for Progressive Benefit Adjustments The proposal seems quite interesting. Rather than simply readjusting the benefit schedule by some blunt change in method of calculating CPI, this would…