Is There No Hope for “Muslim Social Democracy”?  Probably not I am afraid.  Indeed, this label is a recently cooked up one, to replace an earlier one that used “Islamist”…

…care organization (ACO), a prominent iteration of managed care, illustrates the problem. The ACO label was invented at a 2006 meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The concept was tested…

…every lewd or offensive music or fashion statement that otherwise contained strong language was labeled and shunned puritanically. The result was that more albums were sold that were labeled highly…

…PCE & Core-Cast Recap: Upside Driven By Seasonality, Airfares, and Revisions To Opaque Components, employamerica.org, Skanda Amarnath. January PCE thus proved to be hot (for reasons we warned) and Q1 inflation…

…upset when their patients could no longer obtain fair priced generic colchicine. During the decade following the price increase, there was a 27% reduction in the use of colchicine among gout patients who…

…own healthcare decisions. … So, if that’s where they want to label me, I’m more than happy to take the label.” AB: This comment was made about J.D Vance and…

…vaginal creams. The controversy There may be some validity to a limited change in the label of female hormone replacement products. The original study showing the potential for harm from…

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

“Poor people today have air conditioners and smart phones!” You hear that a lot. “You should be looking at poor people’s consumption, not their income. By that measure, they’re doing…

…but increasingly dangerous. I told him that although the phrase ‘fake news’ is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people….