The Red White and Blue Pill
A survey of forty economists from across the ideological and partisan spectrum has concluded that on some of its most cherished issues, the Republican Party has simply taken leave of economic reality.
via 40 Economists Say The GOP Has Abandoned Economic Reality
This is from 2012. It’s only gotten worse.
Obamacare Has Gotten More Popular Since The GOP Shut Down The Government To Defund It
Just 23 percent of Americans say they want to continue the current shutdown to sabotage the health law.
Is it more than 23% in those 30 super-gerrymandered districts? That would explain a lot.
STUDY: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher Rates Of Gun Violence
Want more violence? Loose gun laws, poor education and a failed social safety net. Get those in place and you’ll have lots more violence.
40 Economists Say The GOP Has Abandoned Economic Reality
A survey of forty economists from across the ideological and partisan spectrum has concluded that on some of its most cherished issues, the Republican Party has simply taken leave of economic reality. For instance, economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers noted that one of the results from the survey — run by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, which is hardly known for a left-wing slant — is an overwhelming agreement that the 2009 Recovery Act (i.e. the stimulus) brought down unemployment.
And the GOP responded by with a long diatribe about socialism and abortion written in crayon.
RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, ‘Just Updated’
So when everyone on the let starts calling Romney’s plan the Bush plan, Romney will admit it? Or will he claim that it both is and isn’t?
Ron Paul Defends The 99 Percent: ‘It’s A Very Healthy Movement’
And magically, Paul supporters on Reddit switch from dismissal of to approval of the 99% movement.
My view, with both all due respect and all due derision, is that the Robert Lucas types are like the early Copernicans here. There’s something admirable in their insistence that it ought to all work out to an easily modeled system grounded in compelling theoretically considerations. The New Keynesian model is a mess, like late-Ptolemaic astronomy, thrown together to account for observed reality. But you don’t fly to a moon with an elegant model that delivers mistaken predictions about where the moon’s going to be. And what we actually need is a Kepler to give us an elegant model that actually predicts the phenomena, and then a Newton who can explain what that model means.
From The Copernican Revolution In Macroeconomics | ThinkProgress
Not sure I agree with the main point, but worth a read.
Mexico City Needs Regulatory Reform, Not Underground Buildings
“Living underground is a dystopian scenario for when the surface of the earth becomes uninhabitable, it shouldn’t be a go-to response to a regulatory mandate for short buildings.”
If the point of building codes is so far removed from what is needed for actual utilization of land, there is clearly something wrong. Mexico city should be looking at a way to have modern structures without losing its uniqueness.