…title, the answer is either “both” if you dislike MS, or “Businessman and Philanthropist Extraordinaire” if you like MS. Either way, the Philanthropist label seems deserved and will be even…
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The So-Called Credit Crunch, Again Some More
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…
Accurate reporting
…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”…
Gail Collins (and me): Free Us From ‘Freedom’
…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…
Northwest Plan 2013 – Extracts by Webb
…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…
Dodd Frank changes a huge gimme
…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…
Greece’s Missing Drivers of Growth
…severe decrease in Greece reflects the political uncertainty there as well as the calamitous economic conditions. Net exports of goods and services have continued to record a deficit in Greece…
Are You a Liberal or a Conservative? Are You Sure?
…want to end the deficit spending that’s ballooned since Ronald Reagan – though Conservatives want to do it typically by cutting spending, and Liberals want to do it typically by…
No, Sanders is not trying to boot moderates out of the Democratic Party and erect a progressives-purity test. He just objects to Clinton’s misrepresenting herself as a progressive Democrat when she is, by her own fairly recent and proud description, a moderate Democrat.
…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…
Zero-Sum Foolery 4 of 4: Wage Prisoner’s Dilemma
…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…
