It’s really hard to kill this meme. Note the label on this graph from today’s Free Exchange post: Now change that heading to read “Business borrowing.” Sort of gives a…

…some doubt on the usefulness of such labeling. For example, the label “cyclical” often implies — whether implicitly or explicitly — that declines in the participation rate explained by “cyclical”…

…Fox and the Cattle, NYT, today I was happy, when I read that column this morning, to see that people are catching on to this rightwing “stick-the-label-’freedom’-onto-whatever-we-want-to-do” thing–this is very…

…Dale Coberly’s numbers for 2013 Northwest Plan with three calculated columns added by me. Those are the three with “Cost-Non Interest Income” as part or all of their label. Which…

…element, which is that Wall Street is getting yet another subsidy or back-door bailout. Today’s example is HR 37, with the Orwellian label “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business…

…Christph Ungerer of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (see also here). They use a gravity model to predict export flows in 56 countries, and compare the…

…our focus lie? Should we spend our time making largely false accusations at people we have allowed others to label as different from us, or at the real source of…

…general ideological label as progressive rather than moderate. She is not, overall, a progressive. She is, overall, a moderate. He’s complaining about the false labeling, the false advertising. He thinks…

…label of the “fixed work-fund fallacy” and then the “Theory of the lump of labour.” In denunciations of the lump-of-labor fallacy, it has become fashionable recently to appeal to the…

…that not all Sanders supporters are leftists. This doesn’t follow at all. The general assumption (certainly Chait’s and mine) was that the label “socialist” was electoral poison. It clearly isn’t….