October 12, 2009
Obesity and Dominance Reconsidered
October 11, 2009
A Sentence to Ponder
October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
Huh, I seem to remember 2001-2003 that employment/unemployment stats were thrown around as generalizations by the media (jobless recovery), while alternative sources of media at least drew attention to and dug deeper into the numbers for greater insight; what are household employment rates, what are structural versus cyclical employment rates, etc. Sure this greater insight was used to pursuade, but at least those that chose to engage may have learned something about policy choice and economic results.
The stats are still there; the media stick to their story, and still the lesson of policy decisions remains unseen and unknown to the greater population.
Shameful.