Maybe I spent too much time lurking on economics/policy related online places, but nowadays fewer and fewer articles can lull me into the usual Gell-Mann amnesi

Maybe I spent too much time lurking on economics/policy related online places, but nowadays fewer and fewer articles can lull me into the usual Gell-Mann amnesia. (Arrogance lvl 99.) > Outrage sells Yes, exactly. It's just the usual "things are bad" porn. Winter? Things are bad. Summer? Things are bad. Sure, it's their "job", but at this rate why even check it? The problems are clear, even the solutions are pretty well characterized. (From small scale local zoning, policy and voting reforms through more of the same stricter EPA/cap-n-trade/carbon-tax stuff to big structural energy/healthcare/education/copyright/tax reforms to a few constitutional amendments and new free trade agreements [that incentivize free movement of people, goods, services and information]. Arrogance lvl 100.) For everything else you'll hear about it eventually. > I don't think there is a single person left there who is thinking about the integrity of the paper. Wow, that's ... damning. But doesn't seem particularly false either :|