Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…educational establishment. We are in Central Texas among acres of rolling hills, and old growth oak trees.  Upon landing and establishing the legal framework, we began setting up the infrastructure…

…on fairly mathematical nonlinear dynamics models that can show both growth and endogenous cycles, including complex ones such as chaotic, so, unsurprisingly, up my alley. Their most important influence was…

…funny and so true. The state of Ohio supreme court . . . And regarding the food item’s being called a “boneless wing,” it is common sense that that label…

Barry Ritholz keeps us abreast of retail spending: Last month, I published a post on the nonsense that is Black Friday sales (No, Black Friday Sales Were Not Up 16%…

…– a decade or more. At the current rate of job growth (averaging 90,000 new jobs per month over the last six months), 14 million Americans will remain permanently unemployed….

…growth. That means we need some other source of growth to lead. In response to that situation, one party says “cut taxes and regulation and (mumble, mumble, mumble), and then…

…the one in the poorer club should have higher growth). The other variables help to explain growth by undoing this error. Regressions of just the growth rate on variables *not*…

…of climate despair.” The bottom line for Rees is that it is not really a choice between growth or degrowth but between planned, orderly degrowth or painful, chaotic degrowth imposed…

…growth” six times. “The cry for more inclusive growth starts with a crisis of growth itself.” What crisis? In his speech, Carney acknowledged a troublesome “disconnect between economists and workers.”…