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On Perusing the Comments Sections
On the Characteristics of Those Covered under Some Government Programs
“…SNAP and Medicaid. These are programs for People Who Do Not Work.”
Is this statement true?
Deployment of Forces: Ukraine
From WaPo based on a Royal United Services Institute paper:
Josh Barro on the Demographic Characteristics of Anti-Government Groups
I have been puzzling over the following remark by Cliven Bundy, who has objected to the granting of government subsidies while arguing for no-cost use of government lands. As quoted in Barro/NYT:
Time for Some Traffic
Total vehicle miles driven in the United States have not re-attained pre-recession peaks.
Economic Report of the President, 2014
Released today, available here.
Ex Post Historical Simulation of a Statistical Model of Anthropogenic Climate Change
…we update the [original statistical model (7)] by estimating it with data through 1998. The selected sample ends just before the recent period of slowed warming. As such, the parameter estimates do not use information about the post-1998 period. Model simulations reflect these pre-1998 parameters and post-1998 observed levels of radiative forcings, SOI, and volcanic sulphates.
A Random Thought on the Scientific Method
In response to this post, climate model skeptic Rick Stryker writes (in ALL CAPS no less):
JUST BECAUSE A MODEL DESCRIBES THE EXISTING DATA DOESN’T MEAN THAT IT WILL DESCRIBE DATA THAT HAS NOT BEEN OBSERVED
Eswar Prasad on the “The Dollar Trap”
“[I]n the aftermath of the financial crisis, U.S. policies and a dysfunctional international monetary system have paradoxically strengthened the dollar’s importance.”