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Polling, aggregators, and transparency

…journalists will adopt this rule. But I really hope that poll aggregaters do. I note that academic journals have this rule. They demand the raw data and an explanation of…

Cute procedural tautology of Roberts Court

…evidentiary specificity sufficient to prove the case. This defies a longstanding federal statute known as Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a), which explicitly bars dismissals of lawsuits in such grounds….

Joe Barton: the Indispensable Man

…to the blowout event itself. Politico: Term limits rule rankles ranking GOP Even if House Republicans regain the majority this year, they’ll have to live with an old rule from…

Those Low Rates

…for sleight-of-hand: For example, Bernanke takes great pains to rebut criticism that the funds rate was well below where the Taylor Rule…suggested it should be following the 2001 recession. The…

The End of a Recession… And Where We’re Going

…period. Although the committee concluded that it was not necessary to invoke this rule to determine that the trough occurred in November rather than September or October, the rule strengthened…