…for a guy named Bob to collect confidential price strategy information from all the participants in a market and then tell everybody how they should price? If it isn’t okay…

…information that the government holds. Taxpayer information used to be rigorously protected. Even Federal prosecutors working on tax cases were required to keep it under lock and key. This week,…

…fired the head of the BLS Erika McEntarfer, claiming the August 1 BLS numbers and prior months numbers were rigged. “Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is…

…facts, and form your own conclusions. The machine found information, but humans still did the thinking. Now enter AI. You ask a question once. The system reviews thousands — or…

…says that at least “some of the gridlock (in Washington) is due to poor information.” Jonathan Chait bemoans the fact that Republicans “won’t acknowledge [Obama’s] actual offer, which includes large…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…

…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…

…slew of bloggers are beginning to provide some background information to ordinary Americans on just what is driving the national discussion of “fiscal cliffs” and “austerity” demands. See, e.g., Richard…

…the right to set the tone of the dialogue by letting them label the current situation. We aren’t facing a “fiscal cliff”, he notes, but rather an “austerity bomb”. [The…

…not only a great read but also a revealing informational source on the changes in the American polity, she does note the label he attaches to the right-wing resurgence (“breadwinner…