Private economics consulting firms figure the rate of price inflation in Argentina is running more than double the official 9.7% and are publishing their data, making President Cristina Kirchner’s administration upset. The Wall Street Journal‘s Taos Turner explains,
I live a short drive from work. Due to growth in the area, rush-hour traffic occasionally reduces my afternoon commute to a walking pace. And sometimes it gets even worse.
Is the Amazon ours? In order for us to answer this question it is necessary to define three points: who exactly are “we,” what is “the Amazon,” and what does it mean to “own” something?
In the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics of Spring 2000, Robert Tollison joins David Laband in reiterating a stretched conception of market test. Laband and Tollison recommend grading academic performance by the sorts of statistics that Laband compiles, which involve article and page counts, impressions of journal quality, and citations. As I said in the 1997 article that Laband and Tollison attack (the preceding chapter here), not even the actual commercial market is a test of truth and beauty or excellence.
It is slowly dawning on the press that there is no recovery. The whole thing has been a long exercise in wishful thinking. Job Growth Falters Badly.
