Commentary on fun with facts, immigration mistake, central bank worries, goner Greece, and inequality.

Romney and Ryan play wac-a-stat.

Business Week -- The War Over Economic Facts
Lies filled the Long Island air on Oct. 16 at the second debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Evidence.

Commentary on getting more international students to Canada, the helping hand, and Greek’s little revenge on Germany.

While on the surface a really good idea, absent strategies to reduce undergraduate class sizes this looks like a cash cow given the difference in tuitions for international students. Also the strategy needs to be part of an aggressive immigration strategy that gives permanent resident to graduates.

Commentary on the problem with central banking, economic masochism, the death of Greece, and the IRS cometh.

Leave the ‘supply side’ alone.

Economist -- The twilight of the central banker
THE Bank for International Settlements is known as the central bank to central banks.

 

Pdf below -- BIS 82nd Annual Report

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Commentary on English (the language), why economies stop growing, Germany’s tough love, nothing’s free, on being a famous economist, and managing the cost of new medical technologies.

The controversial history of English.