…as ‘centrist,’ ‘bi-partisan,’ and as promoting a ‘unity’ ticket. Per the Times, ‘The centrist group is gaining steam — and raising money — in its effort to get a candidate on the…

…just going to have take what they were given without any whining or complaining, much less any rock-throwing demonstrations or worse. Excellent commentary by Prof. Heather covering the horrors we…

…venture, the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control — the so-called “Grace commission,” headed by J. Peter Grace — was a flop, making no visible dent in spending. Why was it…

…director of NIH. Dorman and Gelman on libertarians in government In a comment on a recent blog post by Andrew Gelman, Peter Dorman says the following about Bhattacharya: What makes…

…Market and Protecting Consumer Early on, the ACA is having a tremendous impact on controlling and reducing costs providing better value for the money and reducing the inflationary impact of…

…Jobs died, he was a poster child for this view. Yeah, he was something of a jerk, but he gave us all those great gadgets, and that’s why he was…

…and communication is out there for monitoring, profiling, packaging and retailing, and no promise by a company or government is going to change this. The commercial implications are troubling enough,…

…saying more inflation would be nice would have much effect or who call for targeting nominal GDP (why not jut “target” real GDP and cut out the middle man ?)….

…the quintessential “hard-working American” who gets talked about by The Teabaggers as if nothing ever goes wrong and they never need “government help.” (link h/t Dr. Black) This is the…

…that ‘liability’ and can effectively eliminate it altogether by simply doing ‘Nothing’. Meaning that critics can present either the 22% percent cut or that 0.6% GDP gap as being the…