…pulled out of the supplies of oil stored in the US. Based on that reported & estimated data, this week’s crude oil figures from the EIA appear to indicate that…

…Job creation (top left) has slowed to a crawl, but the unemployment rate (top right) has only edged up over the past year, suggesting that a softening demand for labor…

…and will quarrel that it depends on how you define “misbehaved.” As Bakho notes chez DeLong: Freddie/Fannie responded to the housing bubble once they started losing market share. The pressure…

…automatic reasoning and decision-making. … This messaging system has existed and has been extended and strengthened over many years. Democrats have a few of these elements, but they are relatively…

…tagged all the years for which party controlled each branch. (Thanks, Steve!) The spreadsheet (with data sources cited) is here.* (Rdan here..to see the spreadshheet as intended, use the link….

…or actual sales) has returned, approximately, to the level of 1998.* The problem, as I noted more than two years ago, is that, even ignoring that the numbers are more…

Well, it looks like they finally did it. Congressional Republicans agreed yesterday on new ways to raise future taxes. They’ve proven quite expert at cutting today’s taxes and paying for…

…dilemma that I modified from one posted last June. The outline can be elaborated by thinking of the dilemma in terms of Garrett Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” and Elinor…

…The third theory to be considered is that of the fixed group demand. This fixed group demand is usually approached through the desire to share work among their members, which…

…use of technology by capitalist firms. O’Connor’s critique took the form of a dialogue, which parodied and refuted an earlier dialogue, “The Employer and Employed,” that had been published in…