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But these days U.S. power is subject to a form of ambivalence verging on antagonism--even from allies--that goes beyond the merits and motivations of this or that particular criticism.
But as Barro himself writes, "Whatever the merits of supply-side economics and Reaganomics--and I would say there are many--these ideas had nothing to do with the work that resulted in a Nobel prize."
Chatterbox believes the behavior of the press merits no less scrutiny than the behavior of companies like Metabolife.
(Whatever their true merits, widely unpopular items such as foreign aid make up only a tiny percentage of the federal budget.)
In New Jersey and Staten Island, candidates from the two major parties debated the relative merits of alternative free-lunch options.