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Be good news. how on earth is that possible? after all, china relaxed its one-child policy last month precisely so it could avoid the fate of japan. and that fate, if you go by conventional wisdom, seems to be slowing growth and leading to unsustainable debt. why? our entire system is based on having enough young workers to pay for pensions and government services. well, according to the new scientists, perhaps we've been looking at the wrong data. consider growth. the number we tend to focus on the most. look at the performance of a selection of rich countries in the last decade. japan's econ...

Fate of japan. and that fate, if you go by conventional wisdom, seems to be slowing growth and leading to unsustainable debt. why? our entire system is based on having enough young workers to pay for pensions and government services. well, according to the new scientists, perhaps we've been looking at the wrong data. consider growth. the number we tend to focus on the most. look at the performance of a selection of rich countries in the last decade. japan's economy expanded by just 0.8% a year on average. france was faster. the united states and britain grew at twice japan's space. now look at...

Warner, senator hagan, senator donnelley. they're all democrats. and if you want to pass that thing, no problem. conventional wisdom has been, whatever else republicans and democrats disagree on, no matter how intractably divided democrats and republicans are on partisan lines, on other issues. when it comes to the war with iran, well, conventional wisdom has been that not only would the war with iran bill pass, it might even pass with a veto-proof majority. but a funny thing happened on the way to our next big land war in asia. a big unexpected group of senators today decided to yank back on ...

If the congress passes a new sanctions bill right now, diplomatic channels, which are working, will close. and if we're not going to resolve it by diplomacy, how exactly are we going to solve it? the lead senator proposing the new sanctions is senator bob menendez of new jersey, who is a democrat. and if his bill came to a vote, conventional wisdom has long been that it would pass with flying colors. because obviously every republican would vote for it, and, all of these democrats would vote for it, at least. senator menendez, senator blumenthal, senator begich, senator pryor, senator landrieu...

Basically just a republican bastion, just a generation ago, a state that is now the premier swing state in america. the democrats just locked down a monopoly in the elected offices. you have to go back all the way to 1973, 40 years ago, to find the last time before now that virginia picked a governor from the party that occupies the white house. that is why at the start of this year, republican conventional wisdom said that ken cuccinelli was going to win the governor's race. democrats chose a very unpopular candidate, terry mcauliffe as their nominee. but now that is governor-elect terry mcau...