The WTO Is Not a "Free Trade" Group
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Doesn't the NYT have copyeditors anymore? Why are they referring to the WTO
as a "free trade" group in an article on China's efforts to promote its
domes...
Tradesports vs. MSM: Sotomayor Nomination
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What tells you more about the Sotomayor nomination, all of the chatter and
debate in the MSM over her "controversial" remarks or the single number from
int...
Putting the 'no' in innovation?
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by cactus
The inimitable TBogg sums up one of the big arguments against having the
gubmint involved in healthcare:
Because, when it's on the governments t...
Guest Post: Chooching Pension Funds?
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The NYT reports that President Obama's chief auto adviser, Steven Rattner, has
stepped down:
Steven Rattner is quitting his post as President Obama’s c...
Consumer Protection Elitists? Hardly
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Richard Green takes on Peter Wallison's arguments against establishing a
Financial Product Safety Commission: Peter Wallison calls Consumer
Protection Elit...
links for 2009-07-14
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Hilzoy Hangs It Up... Rosalind Franklin Jonathan Alter: The Defining Moment:
FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope Matt Neuberg: Path Finder 5 Beats
t...
Sarah 2.0
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We knew there was a rebranding afoot. And here we have the first roll out of
Sarah Palin, policy wonk. The Post agreed to run her new column on
cap-and-tra...
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The program. More:The CIA was authorized in 2001 to use lethal force against
a small group of top al-Qaeda leaders. Although the agency's attacks on
terror...
Endgame
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Reliable sources tell me the Soto Show will get spicier as the week goes on:
— Serbian summer music festival hitting the big time. — I thought BrĂ¼no was
pr...
The Issue of the Gs
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In the aftermath of last week's G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, there is a debate emerging over whether to expand the group. The most popular proposal would i...
Is California Printing Money?
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Via Mark Thoma and Marshall Auerback comes a news story that has been read
by Mark and Marshall as the state deciding to print its own money. But is an
IOU...
David Leonhardt’s “Club Wagner”
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Bruce Bartlett recently called my attention to this new club he thinks I
should be a member of–the NY Times’ David Leonhardt’s “Club Wagner.” As
David expl...
Arts & Letters Daily (13 Jul 2009)
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Outlawing payments to kidney donors is ostensibly a way to keep the system
fair. All it does is give rich and poor an equally lousy chance of getting a
k...
Vegematic policy advocacy
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Like Brad, I'm not too happy with the policy justifications we're getting
from the administration. It's perfectly clear that the stimulus was too
small; I ...
Draft comment Open Left
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That is me, I would like to throw in a little something I put up at Angry
Bear the other day.
The topic was the empirical data of the effect of tax rates o...
The deleveraging process is inevitable
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By Michael Pomerleano Martin’s article “The cautious approach to fixing
banks will not work” stimulated me to raise a fundamental issue that is
preoccupyin...
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I saw this over at Marginal Revolution and just had to laugh.
Imagine the extreme case -- a 100% income tax. No matter how much you make,
you actually rece...
An Extraordinary Story
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On one of the Usenet groups I sometimes read, someone posted an account of
her life as child and parent that I found both impressive and moving. Hereit is.
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