One Salient Oversight sends some thoughts from down under on recycling labels: Think of the common labels thrown out against political opponents these days. What sort of political thinking would…

…for 29 years. . In an unscientific visit to a supermarket this month, Lynn Dornblaser, new-products guru at market tracker Mintel, looked at 100 products and found about 10% appeared…

…over 30’ (until of course we started turning 30 in 1976). Did we deserve being called self-absorbed, I daresay we did. But did we deserve the label of ‘selfish’. Well…

…was on page 257 of a previous edition): UPDATE: I wasn’t clear enough in my initial post, so I’m pulling vtcodger from comments: Mankiw has a chart there. The label…

…Mae and Freddie Mac) and not (private-label MBS) means it will have eventually sold or pledged half of its Treasurys, limiting how many more of these tricks it can pull…

Having installed a cloud widget on the left sidebar, contributors and guest posters should label their contributions from now on so the widget can keep the references updated. Past posts…

…article by William Drake and Kalypso Nicolaidis shows how corporate lobbyists “got-r-done”: The very act of defining services transactions as ‘trade’ established normative presumptions that ‘free’ trade was the yardstick…

…schemes and payments and doctor ‘collusion’ or ‘acceptance’ is the ethical standard of prescribing medications on such a huge scale, often for non-researched age groups, off label uses, and as…

…weeks instead of one. They suspect the Viagra works through its effects on nitric oxide, which is also how the drug treats erectile dysfunction. Actually, off-label uses can be productive….

…argument: specious logic; ignorant confusion of correlation with causation; deliberate simple-mindedness; or even the “Donald Duck theory of economic growth“. Whichever label you choose, it is, unfortunately, also just par…