…students this morning. (I apologize for the unwillingness of Blogger to give me subscripts.) You may feel a gnawing discomfort with the way economists use statistical techniques. Ostensibly they focus…

…Winner-take-all? Deunionization, deregulation and political derepresentation? But a second inequality has appeared on the scene: the growing share of income going to capital rather than labor. This is Piketty’s issue,…

…Darlin doesn’t question this invocation of Coase, but he says that the technology gives an unfair advantage to the recliner. The playing (sitting?) field is leveled, according to him, if…

…not a sure thing that understanding of math guarantees an unbiased use of it. Kahan et al. found that “more numerate subjects would use their quantitative reasoning capacity selectively to…

…their lending and trading. The theory is that banks that rely less on borrowing are more stablebecause they are getting more of their financing from shareholder funds, which do not…

…departments to continue to expand their preparedness capabilities, instead forcing them to focus on maintaining their current capabilities.” The NIH “NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It’s…

…that never-exercised section 4773(f) removal power; and the Kuretski’s should get a re-hearing under a judge no longer ‘biased’ by the improper removal power. The Kuretski case has nothing to…

…Peter Thiel, Stanford Grad, Paypal Founder, and Manhattan Dandy who is essentially using the $1 Trillion student loan crisis as a stepping-stone by arguing that kids-particularly disadvantaged; inner-city kids- should…

…Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Schweich died after an apparent suicide…

…issue during both theKessler and Bernstock affairs when the advice and conduct of USPS General Counsel Mary Anne Gibbons was called into question. Considering that the BOG is a government…