This has been particularly striking since 2010, when most left-of-centre parties such as Labour in the UK and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany have embraced the conservative-populist arguments for deficit reduction and austerity of the mainstream media, or ‘mediamacro’, which are rejected by almost all academic macroeconomists (at least in the UK and US, though not in Germany).

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He also developed a methodology for predicting when a hurricane will recurve to the north and for predicting average storm motion based on the latitude and time of year.

The problem with the squeaky-wheel system is that the production of the squeaking diverts efforts from other activities, potentially of more benefit to the firm.