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Nice.

No, your criticism is worthless. Insofar as you are correct in pointing out where I am correct, I give you some credit. But you fail to appreciate the full scope of my correctness …

Point taken. However, Krugman's comments were a little stronger than what you suggest. He explicitly called for the creation of a housing bubble (see my other response below). Plea…

Please see my comment above. You are evidently confused about the history of the housing bubble: it was beginning just as Krugman was making these comments and writing the article …

Let's not forget that Krugman was one of the chief advocates of the housing bubble (before it popped) and that his "berating of the raters" should begin with an apology. http://blo…

If you said no - and meant it - then you are wasting it. (Or perhaps we just interpret the question differently.) Who goes to the gym just to lift the lightest weights?

It is perhaps easy to overlook the fact that the modern standard of "fair" is far subtler than the ancient standard of "fair". Social mobility, human rights, effective medicine, my…

Apart from the tortured logic, the most egregious part of the e-mail was the Prof.’s elementary math error. Question: A student goes to three classes, each for approximately the sa…

Unfortunately this article overlooks the "startup" costs for developing and deploying the requisite technologies for harvesting the profits (which are significant enough to preclud…

In my view, the article is backwards. Let me ask a very honest question: what does one actually have to gain, personally, from making a fundamental contribution to physics? Conside…

Funny. I thought this was Obama's data: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obam...