…China (“2. There’s growing discussion about the value of the Chinese yuan against the dollar…[snip]…My prediction: these issues are going be HUGE in the not-too-distant future.”) Now today, the NYT…

…TSMC’s stock price fell by 9 yuan yesterday, closing at 770 yuan, but TSMC’s ADR rose by more than 4% in early trading on the 1st.” The preparations for mass…

…to begin to encourage other countries to use the Yuan as a global currency, and obvious challenge to the US$. If the US$ starts to trend lower agains the Yuan,…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…

…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…

…that: think twice about calling it “income” — even with the Haig-Simons tag attached. I’ve received almost-universal pushback on the “comprehensive income” label, even from the most enlightened (and progressive)…

…From Calhoun, incredibly inaccurately labeled a “libertarian,” through the Agrarian Populist literary movement that was popular at Vanderbilt where Jim wanted to go but did not (he went to Middle…

…opponents of mechanization or advocates of short-time working, a reasoning they label as a misconception and which we know today under the label ‘lump of labor’ fallacy ‘. But the…