Yves here. This post is more important than it seems for several reasons. First, it reveals one of the dirty secrets of modeling: if you tweak assumptions within plausible ranges, you can come up with wildly different outcomes. Second, it identifies what some of these assumptions are in the now-hot-topic of whether letting more migrants […]
Read more...The hidden strings in a Koch Brothers gift to Western Carolina University, and why its faculty is opposed.
Read more...Pre-crime has arrived.
Read more...The fundamental contradictions of neoliberal capitalism are pushing it to the breaking point.
Read more...Although the case study is the UK, this post is yet another example of how counterproductive austerity is, from both an economic and a social perspective.
Read more...How the Koch Brothers are using educational purchases, um, donations, to make cultural norms even more business-friendly.
Read more...How the Doomsday book,and the unit of assessment called the “hide,” suggest that medieval laborers had very civilized work weeks.
Read more...How fraud and mistreatment of students are embedded in the charter school system.
Read more...Yves here. The headline of an article at NBC says it all: Small-Bore? President Obama’s Actions on Guns Make Marginal Changes. Michael Olenick proposed a more effective approach…of a type that curiously has been absent from proposals on how to curb gun ownership. This post first ran on December 17, 2012 By Michael Olenick, a […]
Read more...Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?
Read more...A lively and well-informed debate on the merits of a job guarantee versus a basic income guarantee.
Read more...It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...Clinton, Sanders, and days of Mondale past.
Read more...Model railroading as work and play.
Read more...In 2007, the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf Wolf concluded that America needed some form of a welfare state. His argument is as valid now as then. Yet it is hard to imagine that anyone would make it now, particularly in light of the effort of soi-disant liberals to pretend that Obamacare insurance policies bear any resemblance to “universal health care”.
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