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Daily Archive for October 21st, 2011

What Exactly Is It That I Want Anyway?

Posted in Methodology on Oct 21st, 2011

Please read this fine Megan McArdle post: The passion is certainly real, and understandable.  But the attachment to Glass-Steagall is not. Of the hundreds of times I’ve seen this, in all but two or three cases it’s been absolutely clear that the person advocating this could not describe the content of Glass-Steagall (presumably the one passed […]

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Your Time Only Matters When We Tell You It Does

Posted in Environment, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Oct 21st, 2011

Here’s a old passage from the Guardian newspaper in the UK (it’s quite a good article from George Monbiot, another one of those folks with whom you might expect me to butt heads with regularly: The cost-benefit analysis (which the government calls “the business case”) produces benefits of £32.3bn. The department concludes that the scheme […]

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