Austerity Measurement: Budget Ideology Fails Outside Of A Vacuum Patrick Slevin February 16, 2011 Columns Poll Shows Americans Balance Budget Better When They're Actually Given A Budget To Balance As a March 4 deadline looms for approval of a new budget (as well as the humiliating process of raising the debt cei... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Freedom Isn’t Free, And Neither Is Oil Patrick Slevin February 2, 2011 Columns 1 Nobody loves a despot when he's down and out. Or when there are thousands of rioters outside of his opulent palace. The recent ousting of Tunisian "President" Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and the current (as of t... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Fuck The Rich; Or, Polls Show Most Americans Agree With This Headline Patrick Slevin December 15, 2010 Columns As Chris Rock once said (over and over again, as is his style), "I'm not talking 'bout rich, I'm talking ‘bout wealthy." Everyday Americans have a different perspective about who's rich and who isn't. Are you r... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Diplomatic Immunity, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Trust Ambassadors Patrick Slevin December 8, 2010 Columns The substantive details of state department cables released by the "roguish" website Wikileaks and the context thereof have almost eclipsed every other news story this week, even as unemployment benefits are ru... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: The Grim Future Of Charity Patrick Slevin November 24, 2010 Columns 2 One look into Jimmy Wales' creepy eyes on any page of the Wikipedia and an overlooked side effect of the world's pursestrings' drawing becomes painfully clear. You're not donating as much as you used to. ... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Deficit Reduction, You Asked For It Patrick Slevin November 17, 2010 Columns Interestingly, the bitter pill of smaller government that Tea Party-leaning Americans shoved down the ballot box not two weeks ago came into the public discourse this week not from the newly elected House Of Re... Read More...
The Austerity Measurement: Don’t Blame The Internet, Blame The Business Model Patrick Slevin October 6, 2010 Columns 3 In the last few weeks, business models appeared to shuffle away from the in-store experience and toward the Internet ever further—or the "cloud," which is the fancy word of the day. Remember when you surfed the... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Exporting Our Imports Patrick Slevin September 29, 2010 Columns 5 It is to wonder which of President Obama's former financial advisor's fuzzy aspiration it was to double the U.S. export market in five years. Most likely, the honor goes to the outgoing Larry Summers, but in th... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: Environmental Party In Cancun! Woooo! Patrick Slevin September 22, 2010 Columns If the BP oil spill did anything for economic growth, it blew the wellhead on energy advertising. Ask yourself, what energy company needs to advertise in this era of energy consolidation? Better than half the t... Read More...
Austerity Measurement: New York Tobacconistas And Simulated Sovereignty Patrick Slevin September 16, 2010 Columns To the addicted, a deal on their drug of choice is attractive in almost any circumstance. A dedicated drinker will go out of their way to buy cases of their preferred brand at a larger outlet for a third less t... Read More...
