hmmm...if someone is having trouble commenting, how are they to respond?

checking to see if your comments are working...mark thoma is having a fit... http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/06/legit-comments-marked-as-spam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FKupd+%28Economist%27s+View%29

umm, goldman sachs said that last week.. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-06/goldman-caves-unemployment-rate-inappropriate-measure-labor-market

just send the kids out into the garden with tiny paintbrushes to transfer pollen from flower to flower..

frankel suggests that the use of fracking has been responsible for reducing CO2 emissions, as utilities switch from coal to gas... however, measurements at the wellhead show as much as 9% of the methane from fracked wells escapes into the atmosphere... methane is about 21 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2 in the long term, but 72 times as potent over a 20 year horizon...and new charts show methane's global warming potential is more than 130 times that of carbon dioxide over a period of ten years...the EPA is in the process of increasing it's expected greenhouse impact... according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual report on 2011 greenhouse gases, atmospheric methane hit a new high of 1813 parts per billion (ppb) in 2011, which was 259% of the pre-industrial level; since CO2 levels were at 390.9 parts per million (ppm) in 2011, that means methane's net warming effect is already one-third that of CO2 over 20 years…

FYI, obama signed that, citing national security concerns...

my old farmhouse was built in 1890 and it's going to fall down someday...would you say that its price could increase faster than inflation indefinitely from here?

very. if i'd have known that, i'd have coded the html for the above link...

"The Social Security “trust fund”? That’s an accounting mechanism, not an actual pot of money." ... care to explain what this $2.729 trillion in Treasury bonds is? http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/investheld.cgi

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just check BLS: The 30 occupations with the largest projected employment growth, 2010-20 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t06.htm other than nurses and teachers, most of the top ten dont even require a high school diploma..

dont count your chickens.. 8 - 14 day temperature outook: http://www.localweather.com/weather/maps/outlooks/temp/814day/us.html

ok, anne, how much of that is home equity? because, if you recall, what we wanted to know is how realistic is the proposal that seniors forego social security for several years to allow it to build to a sizable monthly stipend...

from thursday: "the largest increases in median debt were experienced in households with householders age 35 to 44 (to $108,000), 45 to 54 (to $86,500) and 55 to 64 (to $70,000)." http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/cb13-51.html

of course, net worth includes home equity...and the old folk cant buy much catfood with home equity...

what about the 57% of workers who reported less than $25,000 in total household savings? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323639604578368823406398606.html 'Workers Saving Too Little to Retire'

re "my comment doesn't make any sense" funny, that's exactly what i thought when i read it...

Mankiw & Hubbard were the architects of the Bush tax cuts...

The 30 occupations with the largest projected employment growth, 2010-20 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t06.htm of the top 9, only one requires more than high school; 5 do not even require high school

there's another draft bill being worked on, for which they want public comments: "All comments are welcome and can be submitted by email to cutcarbon@mail.house.gov. The Lawmakers are requesting that comments be submitted no later than April 12, 2013."

Why Does Anyone Listen to Paul Ryan? i dont think anyone does...the only place i see or hear coverage of his budget proposal is here or other left leaning blogs or websites...

in answer to your question, it became expensive oil...

up here in the geauga county snow belt its been sunny & in the low forties today...snow is melted enough you might get some practice in...not bad for early march..

can someone explain to me how the sequestered cuts came to be $85 billion? (as is now widely quoted) my understanding was the debt control act specified $1.2 tillion over ten years; with the imputed interest on the debt savings that would amount to $92.1 trillion a year, which was the figure widely used by the press and analysts until recently... even earlier, it had been marked at $109.3 billion per year by such as CBPP: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3635

at just 1.25 million listeners, he doesnt even have a tenth the audience of limbaugh or hannity: http://www.talkers.com/top-talk-radio-audiences/