Roubini Topic Archive: Demographics
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Framing: Morality Trumps Reason When it Comes to Vampire Squids and Other Blood Suckers
Here is an excerpt from the most important article you will read this year, by George Lakoff: Here’s how public intimidation by framing works. The mechanism of intimidation is framing, not just the use of words or slogans, but rather the changing of what voters take as right as a matter of principle. Framing is [...]
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The Budget Compromise: Congress Creates a Rube Goldberg Doomsday Machine
Don’t you feel relieved? After weeks of threats, hostage-taking, and other forms of deficit terrorism, our two political parties have finally “compromised” on what was always a foregone conclusion. (As I write, we still await the Senate vote—but it looks like a done deal.) Washington got what it wanted—a down payment on destruction of the [...]


















