BEN BERNANKE'S meticulous argument on why the Fed's monetary policy did not cause the housing bubble left largely unanswered a more interesting question: if low interest rates didn't cause it, what did?For that, you should read the Fed staff working paper that formed the basis for most of Mr Bernanke's speech.
It featured an op-ed that dared to say in print -- in a thoughtful, meticulous argument -- what everyone who has seriously looked at the issue has known for years: the War on Drugs is an absolute failure whose cost to society is increasingly unbearable and absolutely unjustifiable.
In each case, the arguments are meticulous - the US academic Paul Hayes Tucker worked on both exhibitions and contributes a superb essay to the catalogue.
By contrast, the overhaul of the Guantánamo detention facility would have to begin with a meticulous airing of the arguments and decision-making process that led Bush-administration officials to dispense with legal and time-tested detention procedures.
Like most media commentators, Alterman probably overestimates the influence of media commentators, but the meticulous care with which his arguments are sourced and footnoted is in commendable contrast to the efforts of some of his more fire-breathing conservative opponents.
One critic, Vincent Noce of the Libération newspaper, said that the "meticulous restoration" provided a powerful argument for the cleansing of other Leonardo works in the Louvre – including the Mona Lisa itself.
The central argument of this meticulous, carefully researched and passionately argued book is that the battle in Egypt, as in almost every other place in the world, is between a dominant global neo-liberal capitalist system and the people whose lives and livelihoods it is destroying.
Even though Mr. Chomsky's arguments are presented with meticulous empirical detail (as well as with modesty, patience and occasional bursts of wit), there is an abstract, theoretical air about them.
In his scramble to spare the prince's blushes, not a scramble that would have been made for anyone else, Mr Grieve was, as a government minister, seeking to overrule the tribunal's meticulous verdict reached after hearing extensive argument.
Here's one core conclusion, echoing Vaclav Smil and Stephen Schneider, among others: Constraining the uncertainty of the future remains an important task for many important areas of inquiry, but scientists should be meticulous and open-minded when making such arguments.
