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[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] While the number of privately insured Americans decreases during a recession, empirical evidence has shown that the total number of Americans with health insurance increases during recessions because many more Americans qualify for public insurance.

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[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: How's He Doing?: Even Clinton backed an unregulated free market, NAFTA, GATT, he gutted AFDC in a fit of 'trickle-down' pique, even Clinton hewed to the Conservative economic principles espoused by the Right. Greenspan was a student of Ayn Rand's, literally, and her ideology informed his economic policy.

[Cogitamus] Silver and Red: Let me first say I am surprised that this was my reaction  Like many people I became an enormous fan of fivethirtyeight.com during the election and was consistently impressed by Silver's statistical and analytical skills.  He is obviously an exceptionally bright guy and seemed to handle his new found fame as the campaign wore on with great grace 

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Two Progressivisms: I believe that economic growth is both a reflection of and a contributor toward societal progress, that economic growth has facilitated a higher standard of living, and that this is empirically indisputable. I also believe, however, that our society is now so exceptionally wealthy -- even in the midst of a severe recession -- that it has little excuse not to provide for some basic level of dignity for all its citizens.

[convertable changing tables] gatt+interest+rate+table%0D%0A: Star: “The number of white South Africans who give emigration as the reason for selling their home has shot up in recent months as high crime levels and political and economic uncertainty spur the flight of whites from the Rainbow .

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: BREAKING: Press Corps ...: Can you suggest to Gibbs or someone in the White Office Press Secretary office that yesterday's newser was the PERFECT time for Gibbs, when someone is asking questions about taxing those of more than $250,000 (actually a slight increase in the marginal rate), that he should ask one question before answering their question? And that question should be "First, do you make more or less than $250,000 per year?"

[Comments for politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Will it be house prices that ...: …Stanford University’s John Taylor has authored an “event study” that suggests that it was not the inability or unwillingness of regulators to save Lehman over the weekend of September 13-14 2008 that led credit markets to seize up around the globe. “The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong” demonstrates that the credit markets actually did not actually go into cardiac arrest after Lehman declared bankruptcy.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Is George Will the most ignorant ...: Bill Townsend, recently I received an email message from a scientist who prefers, apparently, to attribute empirical evidence of climate change to seasonal variation in weather. He advised me to be more “optimistic” because maybe .

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