…extent to which Republicans used Obama as a proxy against Democratic contenders – that Democrats who voted with the President would suffer the worst loses while those who distanced themselves…

…export numbers, which are seasonally and working day adjusted through June 2010 (the volume indexes are only available through May 2010), proxy the strength of external demand. The interesting thing…

…to growth possibilities. With labor abundantly available, the limitation on creating new product is essentially The Big K, and it’s “Main Street” proxy, money. As noted above, in most models…

…a proxy for rulings on the rights of “enemy combatant” detainees. Or for the rights of criminal defendants generally. But, as Lithwick and others note, that would not prevent the…

…been declining or unchanged for every month since August 2009. I know that the output gap is not directly observed, except by proxy in the capacity utilization numbers or the…

…rate of imports – a good proxy for domestic demand – averaged 117% annualized growth per month from April (when it turned positive) to December 2009. Compared to this period…

…charts below). I used auto sales in the G5 as a proxy for retail sales, as I could not access a retail sales in India (not even sure they offer…

…that community-based targeting performs worse in identifying the poor than proxy-means tests, particularly near the threshold. This worse performance does not appear to be due to elite capture. Instead, communities…

…almost everyone who will be collecting Social Security over the 75 year actuarial window being already alive). So granting the point that GDP is not a perfect proxy for Social…

…of these launched by the country itself keeping the intent of its neighbors in mind. In a number of cases, these wars were even proxy battles between Outside Powers. Along…