No End To Long-Term Unemployment - Business Insider

No End To Long-Term Unemployment - Business Insider   ....I have been arguing for four years that our business-cycle problems call for more aggressively expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, and that our biggest problems would quickly melt away were such policies to be adopted. That is still true. But, over the next two years, barring a sudden and unexpected interruption of current trends, it will become less true.

The current balance of probabilities is that two years from now, the North Atlantic’s principal labor-market failures will not be demand-side market failures that could be easily remedied by more aggressive policies to boost economic activity and employment. Rather, they will be structural market failures of participation that are not amenable to any straightforward and easily implemented cure.

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Pragmatism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Pragmatism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ;.. TRUTH and REALITY ... People need a 
philosophy that is both empiricist in its adherence to facts yet finds room for 
religious belief. ..... a 'real' because we find that our opinions (the only things of 
which we ... Ideas … become true just in so far as they help us to get into ...

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True Light Lutheran Church | Page 2 ;..   As in politics, the point about the Trinity, at least the point that most affects us, is the economy of the Trinity.  That is, how God saves us.

Just like it’s all well and good to have the world’s greatest economic plan, if it can’t relate to (or save) the people it is being applied to then its value is only in and of itself.  And that value may even be incredibly high (all analogies fall short).

The Trinity, in and of its Father, Son, and Holy Spirit self, is of infinite value and worth.  That God is God is true despite any relating to the creation, any saving, any interaction at all.  But that’s the beauty of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  

People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert - NYTimes.com

People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert - NYTimes.com ;..   According to this view, bias, lack of logic and other supposed flaws that pollute the stream of reason are instead social adaptations that enable one group to persuade (and defeat) another. Certitude works, however sharply it may depart from the truth.

Stocks tumble as European debt fears weigh - Market Day

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