As
promised earlier, here's
Jacob Hacker's response to the CBO study calling into question his finding of an increase in economic volatility in America. Given that it's Sunday morning, I can't say that I've thoroughly looked into what he has to say, but I thought it made sense to put the link up at the earliest possible time since I'm going to have to see what others make of this as I don't necessarily have the relevant skills.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/hackers-response/48048/