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More than an election message

…and ‘message’ is constantly displayed in comments when it comes to political messaging…especially in a forced two party system. To illustrate, allowing the labels ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ to define the…

FHFA Issues Subpoenas for PLS Documents

Hat tip Calculated Risk for pointing us to the FHFA Issues Subpoenas for PLS Documents at the FHFA website. CR notes that Many of the originators of the PLS mortgages…

SCOTT SUMNER II

…I wonder if he is even aware that economic historians label the 1870’s as the “Long Depression”. I find it really amusing that he so proud of what others call…

…published June 2010. DolB: I am a liberal. A label that “progressive” is used in exchange with. I am not a radical, fascist, loony, left winged, socialist, commie. In fact,…

Tri-Committee Health Care Bill Deficit Neutral

…cost “a quarter of a trillion dollars” perhaps hoping people are still scared by the label rather than the number. Because in the context of a $750 billion TARP package…

Warren Buffet’s annual letter to shareholders

…purchasing companies] were known as “leveraged-buyout operators.” But LBO became a bad name. … Their new label became “private equity,” a name that turns the facts upside-down: A purchase of…