• August 29, 2016

Six Ways NIRP Is Economically Negative

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

– Elbert Hubbard

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”

– Willie Nelson

• August 21, 2016

Weapons of Economic Misdirection

“Measurement theory shows that strong assumptions are required for certain statistics to provide meaningful information about reality. Measurement theory encourages people to think about the meaning of their data. It encourages critical assessment of the assumptions behind the analysis.

“In ‘pure’ science, we can form a better, more coherent, and objective picture of the world, based on the information measurement provides. The information allows us to create models of (parts of) the world and...

• August 13, 2016

An Inheritance of Incompetence

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

– Dean Acheson

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

– John Maynard Keynes

• August 7, 2016

World Gone Backwards

 “The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years – one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource-intensive heavy manufacturing – is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.”

– Gary Locke

“In this 21^st century world, some of our country’s most significant exports extend beyond goods and services. They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.”

– Kathleen Sebelius...