…(18) months indicated is the longest since 1929-1933, and that eighteen months is—coincidentally—the average duration of the recessions between the World Wars. (The success of the Great Moderation is palpable.)…

…resource intensive and not nearly as prestigious as producing more MBAs, lawyers and economists. While universities will get into bidding wars over top flight business, science or law professors, the…

…total weapon system commitments, each system requires two to three times acquisition costs over the planned 20 year life to train and maintain “capability” for fictitious wars and entanglements. This…

…Peters quote is the second to last paragraph in the article. The last paragraph is much more bizarre Still, veterans of the budget wars see one reason for optimism in…

…Supreme Court opinions—to hot-button culture wars issues and to court opinions decided on what lawyers call the “merits,” a legal term of art that means that the case was decided…

…that party’s business, law-and-order, and culture-wars supporters, circa 1985. Under this legal theory, the Constitution bars, for example, state or municipal legislation that circumscribes gun sales and gun possession. But…

…so far) and the huge increase in government under Bush from militarization and his “preemptive war” policy (costs of the Iraq-Afghanistan wars in human lives greater than 5000 and in…

…bringing the economy to ruins. But again we read deep and what to find? “The United States’ soaring debt — propelled by tax cuts, wars and large expenditures to help…

…the Eurozone, Germany, is an “exporter” itself. Talk about trade wars! U.S.-China bi-lateral relations SHOULD BE TREATED as a multi-lateral story; they’re interconnected. Rebecca Wilder crossposted with News N Economics…

…http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r49_nOHQG4QdHuwcbMGmP0Q The column fourth from the Right is labeled Trust Fund Ratio and if graphed would show a perfect shape, a Trust Fund topping out with a ratio of 375…