Jonathan Portes asks, “What’s the role of experts in the public debate?” He assumes it is his prerogative, as an expert, to define that role: I think we have three…

…will probably want to save the money rather than buy even discounted tickets to an art museum. So paying with a “merit good” (don’t ask me to define or even…

…Public Option and Medicare. I start to get edgy when people talk about the Public Option, Universal Coverage, Single Payor, Medicare-For-All, etc. as they do not really define it and…

…52 percent said it just stands against Trump. With Trump being one of the most unpopular Presidents early in his first term, Democrats miss the opportunity to define what they…

…examined the demand for “safe assets,” which they define as a “debt instrument that is expected to preserve its value during adverse systemic events.” Before the global financial crisis, these…

…presence of underrepresented Black students on this campus. We define underrepresented Black students as Black Americans who have several generations (more than two) in this country. The Black student population…

…time to go to pen and paper. “Does the Alexander-Murray bill adequately protect vulnerable groups?” Andrew Sprung, xpostfactoid blog “CMS to allow states to define essential health benefits” Harris Meyer…

…lacks identifiable units with serial numbers; it’s a measure of value defined by its transaction history. In a valid transaction, the payer references prior transactions as “inputs” to prove ownership…

…define as their “fair” price, And that is exactly what we see in the JOLTS data during this expansion compared with the last one: That is pretty compelling evidence that…

(Dan here…unemployment rates were about the same at 3.1 per cent (M) and 3.0 per cent (W). Taking a look at other measures of the success of an economy for…