November 9, 2015
Rupture in Spain: Catalan Parliament to Vote for Independence
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For discussion of income distribution, please see What’s "Really" Behind Gross Inequalities In Income Distribution? Birth Death Model Starting January 2014, I dropped the Birth/Death Model charts from this report.
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Tweet I want to follow up on Eli’s comment below that "There is a place between blogs, arXiv and Science for really speculative papers, but the authors need to strongly defend themselves." Yes, and Hansen’s paper is properly occupying that place, assuming it can stay defended. But then, think about a speculative paper that went for the mirror-opposite side of the spectrum, saying "what if we’ve been wrong about everything about climate change and here’s a negative feedback mechanism previously undiscovered that will safely limit things." Let’s further assume this turns out not to be a Galileus paper but a Bozo paper , as seems likely. The normal consequences of publishing something that’s wrong is bent, by denialism
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Via translation, El Confidential comments on the Banking Drag of €238 Billion Nonperforming Loans at Spanish Banks . The profitability of banks has plummeted. And only the loose monetary policy of the ECB has improved the results.