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Here in Germany I heard about something on the news… — would you believe “Bloccupy“?

Paul Krugman says “we’ve just seen an object demonstration of why Wall Street does, in fact, need to be regulated“.
I think there is more than just one single option. In my opinion, bankers and the banking […]

Curious, isn’t it, that such “learned” articles are not available in machine-readable format?
I guess this is supposed to be Professor Krugman’s so called “learned” response to my so-called “learned” stimulus. […]

OMG!

Neither do the disabled, whose inability to work is unfortunate, but not driven by economic issues.

I’m afraid that this man simply does not discriminate between work and employment… — FAIL!

I’ve been meaning to get around to reading Paul Krugman’s article in the New York Times Magazine, and yet I am sorry to say that it is — in my opinion — not very insightful… but this is perhaps also not very […]

In particular, I wonder what Hollande’s election means for the proposal to tax financial transactions across Europe.

What if you could choose only one of the following 2 scenarios?

Increase spending: reduce unemployment, raise growth, output, pollution global warming and ecological doom;

Do nothing: live with low demand, […]

Press coverage of Argentina is another one of those examples of how conventional wisdom can apparently make it impossible to get basic facts right. We keep getting stories about Ireland’s recovery when there is, […]

I promised to write a follow-up on my previous post (in which I analyzed how Paul Krugman thought about “natural language” vs. “artificial language” [i.e., "bot language"]).
The tangent I followed led me to think […]

This isn’t a case where a few lesser outlets omitted a minor point about a headline. It’s a case where a story that was interesting enough to earn a full Techmeme pile-on was lacking in coverage that would be […]

I find this is odd, because I had always thought that Professor Krugman was a big fan of bots like Google:

I guess a word search on “depression” for a psychology magazine would finger me as a possible author — if […]

Also, in my opinion top-down prescriptive standardization is too slow a process to keep up with the speed of technological development and/or the languages of the world-wide web. To me, this seems doomed to fail, […]

Real Estate Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Are World Cup 2014 + Olympics 2016 Good or Bad for the Local / Municipal Economy?

Yet another ridiculous aspect of modern life is the curious supposition that a regulator who is paid by private enterprise must be better than a regulator who is paid with tax dollars (or vice versa).
I suspect […]

[When the] depression arrived — and what we are experiencing is indeed a depression, although not as bad as the Great Depression — policy failed to rise to the occasion. Yes, the banking system was bailed out. But […]

Let me unpack that a little (this sketchy shorthand also happens to be an indication of one of several themes in an upcoming book ).
Actually many of the themes — including this one — are interwoven with […]

If you offer to give me a lot of money, but only if I perform certain tasks, is that servitude?

… and researchers at Fordham University publish an article in the Christian Science Monitor saying that they don’t like it.

The marketing professors at Fordham University maintain that the Occupy Movement has the “wrong target”:

companies exist because we shop from them, we sustain them, and on some level we want them to be there. More […]

Close ties between Google / YouTube and United States government are implicated.