…is a jobs report which is ringing the alarms for imminent recession.”  Let me elaborate on that with several important graphs as linked to below. Since last April, the total…

…row, this morning’s update for April was unsurprisingly dominated by what happened at gas stations.  Nominally, total retail sales rose 0.5% in April, But after taking the monthly 0.6% increase…

…says that at least “some of the gridlock (in Washington) is due to poor information.” Jonathan Chait bemoans the fact that Republicans “won’t acknowledge [Obama’s] actual offer, which includes large…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…

…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…

…slew of bloggers are beginning to provide some background information to ordinary Americans on just what is driving the national discussion of “fiscal cliffs” and “austerity” demands. See, e.g., Richard…

…the right to set the tone of the dialogue by letting them label the current situation. We aren’t facing a “fiscal cliff”, he notes, but rather an “austerity bomb”. [The…

…not only a great read but also a revealing informational source on the changes in the American polity, she does note the label he attaches to the right-wing resurgence (“breadwinner…

…Sep 8, 2012 12:45:00 PM Last year Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae issued $590,300, $301,100 and $327,000 million in U.S. Agency MBS for a total of $1,218,400 million….

…to overstate how central the unjustified label of “fiscal conservative” is to the Ryan brand and the GOP’s strategy. As Clinton understood in the 1990s, “fiscal responsibility” is a values…