…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…

…Fox and the Cattle, NYT, today I was happy, when I read that column this morning, to see that people are catching on to this rightwing “stick-the-label-’freedom’-onto-whatever-we-want-to-do” thing–this is very…

…element, which is that Wall Street is getting yet another subsidy or back-door bailout. Today’s example is HR 37, with the Orwellian label “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business…

…our focus lie? Should we spend our time making largely false accusations at people we have allowed others to label as different from us, or at the real source of…

…general ideological label as progressive rather than moderate. She is not, overall, a progressive. She is, overall, a moderate. He’s complaining about the false labeling, the false advertising. He thinks…

…that not all Sanders supporters are leftists. This doesn’t follow at all. The general assumption (certainly Chait’s and mine) was that the label “socialist” was electoral poison. It clearly isn’t….

…think tanks and so-called legal foundations, small, non-profit (thus “Foundation” as part of their title) law firms, all funded by extreme economic self-styled libertarian (the Madison Avenue-inspired ideological label they…

…of real output. Crowding out was a new label for what Keynes had referred to as the Treasury View, which Winston Churchill elaborated in 1929: The orthodox Treasury view, and…

…stress tests. This was done under the guise of being called, (cough-cough, clearing my throat) community banks or The Community (Bank) Hustle as the Intercept would label it. You would…

…between the empirical world of markets and the putative substrate of “utility”. In the end, the reason for attaching a label like economics to some portion of human activity is…