…are weak beer on the campaign trail. Most Americans change the channel. Tell them what they want to hear: “We make America rich.” The double meaning is fully intended.  …

…unequal again. This has been offset partly by the rise of double income households, but this phenomenon can be seen as the main reason why interstate migration has fallen. When…

…impose a legal limit upon the days work. Implicit in much of this pretentious double talk is the notion that consumer demand is utterly independent of wages, so “the economy”…

…competing for being most innovative in developing double-balance accounting, the use of Indo-Arabic numerals, and so forth. The very word “bank” comes from a bench (banca) in Siena where guild…

…for every 1,000 people in 2010 was double the average in other OECD countries. Comparatively, there were also more tonsillectomies, caesarean sections and knee replacements. Regardless of how much more,…

…$2 trillion is a double-counting error.” Amazing, I thought. Also Chait is much better at snark even than Paul Krugman who made it sound boring “@paulkrugman It appears that Trump…

…and Mattis made verbal statements last week arguing for a more balanced approach there, only to have Trump double down on supporting this very stupid policy. Tillerson is not able…

…Rex Tillerson repeatedly making it clear that he at least does not support the diplomatic and economic moves against Qatar. SecDef Mattis has laid lower on the matter, but has…

…budget would have to go to education, so legislators would have to come up with almost double the money to cover the single-payer plan. To get around this, voters would…

…double down on his earlier views. “The views expressed by the host of this program [are] documented to be almost always right 99.8 percent of the time,” Limbaugh said right…