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| | Samwick Media Watch
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out
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| | Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)
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| | King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)
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| | A Capital Challenge (Watching the attempts of the red-shirts to change the Thai government by bringing Bangkok to a standstill, I was reminded of the observation that Alberto Alesina and Ed Glaeser...)
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| | Gap police
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| | Whodunit?
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| | Moral progress?
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| | This time is different?
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| | 28th Amendment
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| | "Jobs, jobs, jobs"
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| | Use it or lose it
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| | Let more of them in!
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| | Three in one morning
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| | How did he know?
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| | Crazy?
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| | Rise and fall
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| | Yikes!
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| | New frontiers for twelve-step programs?
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| | News flash: NY Times editorial writer on the side of the angels
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| | I love LA
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| | What evidence?
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| | Matches
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| | What do they know?
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| | Campus speech
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| | About those EV1 charging stations
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| | Do it in public
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| | Transit-oriented development?
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| | Economic thinking via YouTube
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| | Shoes dropping
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| | ?Seniors Living on Fixed Incomes? (“Senior citizens living on fixed incomes” is a common refrain of the powerful pensioners’ special interest groups, and it seems to never go...)
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| | On Behavioral Economics, Ancient Refrigerators, and Landlord Incentives (In a WSJ article (gated) discussing the influence of behavioral economics on the Obama Adminstration's policies, Johnathan...)
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| | Emergent Order Sighting (From the WSJ (gated): Hairdresser Yasmine Beaupin has found a new calling in the wake of the earthquake that ravaged this city: running the affairs of a teeming tent city. The...)
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| | A Capital Challenge (Watching the attempts of the red-shirts to change the Thai government by bringing Bangkok to a standstill, I was reminded of the observation that Alberto Alesina and Ed Glaeser...)
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| | Drumbeat: March 14, 2010 (Gasoline refining lacks its spark, for now
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- While the cost of crude has risen in the past year much faster than the price of gasoline at the pump, Big...)
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| | Building Physical Stamina for the CPA Exam
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| | Tax Foundation Deficit Report Cited on CNN (Amity Shlaes, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Wall Street Journal editorial board member, cited a Tax Foundation report on...)
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| | Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads (There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper (which I highly recommend) and a paper returning to the list at...)
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| | A Colorful Anti-Lawyer (and Anti-Law Professor) Rant (Here is a colorful rant against lawyers and law professors over the Wall Street Journal's suggestion that Harry Markopolos, who has written a...)
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| | Sunday links: retail resurgence (Junk stocks continue to lead this rally. (Chart.ly Blog)
The state of equity market sentiment at week-end. (Trader’s Narrative, The Technical Take)
The online...)
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| | The New Road to Serfdom - Part 63
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| | "US Sprawl is not a Market Outcome" (I think John Stossel should be ignored when it comes to economics, he either doesn't know what he is talking about or he is willing to mislead people. For example,...)
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| | Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.
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| | When good (lefty) papers go bad.
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| | Riding Red Back Mining for Growth (Personally, I'm not a big fan of investing in Africa in general. But following Red Back Mining (RBIFF.PK) leads me to believe that the future for gold miners in...)
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| | Long Cable
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| | Close Cable trade
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| | A daylight savings time confession (Had the idea of a government plan to shift the clocks back and forth twice and year been proposed today I am reasonably certain that I would have been against it. I...)
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| | The economics of managed care (Here is my latest NYT column and these are some relevant excerpts: Conceived in its broadest form, managed care can be run by the government, as in Britain, or left in...)
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| | The Economics of Sainthood (Barro, McCleary and McQuoid have a new paper, The Economics of Sainthood (a preliminary investigation) Saint-making has been a major activity of the Catholic Church for...)
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| | Assorted links (1. How much did the Irish government subsidize housing? 2. Service discrimination by race? (Warning: Daily Mail story) 3. If taxes hurt less, would they be higher? 4. Africa's gift to...)
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| | The challenges ahead for world oil (University of Leeds Professor Joyce Dargay and New York University Professor Dermot Gately have a new research paper suggesting that projections from the DOE, IEA,...)
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| | Weekly Summary and a Look Ahead
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| | Senator Dodd's Financial Overhaul Bill to be introduced Monday
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| | Your Mind and Your Money (There is an interesting PBS series titled “Your Mind and Your Money,” with an extensive section on Behavioral Finance.
There is a full run of video discussions...)
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| | Words from the Investment Wise 3.14.10 (Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 8?14, 2010)
Shrugging off some lingering reminders of the credit crisis and recession, investors...)
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| | Its ALWAYS a Good Time to Buy a House! (I spoke with Damon Darlin of the NYT last week about housing and RE agents. He recalled the ?It’s a great time to buy or sell a home? nonsense spouted by...)
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| | Samwick Media Watch
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out
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| | Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)
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| | King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)
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| | A Betting Arena, by Arnold Kling (Since Bryan is impressed with people who bet on their ideas, I thought I would remind folks about longbets, a site that encourages exactly that, focused on long-term...)
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| | Tyler Cowen on the Future of Health Policy, by Arnold Kling (He sees a future of managed care, funded or subsidized by vouchers. He elaborates here.
Few people would think that a ne'er do well...)
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| | Haidt's Bet, by Bryan Caplan (I'm impressed to learn that Haidt backed up his Five Foundations theory with his own cash. The offer expired on August 1, 2009, but it ran for two years:IF ANYONE...)
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| | Tech Talk: Producing oil shale by burning it in place (This is part of the continuing series that I have been writing about oil shale. And, while I just digressed in talking about using nuclear...)
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| | Obama's $3 Trillion Tax Increase; IRS To Track PayPal Transactions; Toledo Ohio Fiscal Emergency; Obama's Utopian Education Goals (Here are a few stories this past week that caught my eye that I have...)
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| | Building Physical Stamina for the CPA Exam
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| | Two IRS Agents Demand Past-Due Taxes From Car Wash Owner: 4 Cents (Plus $202.31 Interest and Penalties) (Sacramento Bee, IRS Visits Sacramento Carwash in Pursuit of 4 Cents: It was every...)
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| | States May Delay Tax Refunds (Several states (Alabama, Hawaii, Kansas, New York, North Carolina) are considering delaying tax refund checks because of state budget shortfalls. ABC News, Check's in the...)
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| | links for 2010-03-13 (Nearing Retirement and Unemployed or Underemployed - Calculated Risk For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid - NYT Shipping out the best beer: Why export prices...)
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| | "Managed Care: Get Used to It" (HTML clipboard Tyler Cowen says the role of managed care "is certain to grow," and that private sector based managed care, what he calls "competitive, choice-based...)
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| | Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.
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| | When good (lefty) papers go bad.
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| | Will Chinese Inflation Hike Oil and Gold Prices? (Peter Cooper submits: The Middle East could be enjoying another oil price boom much sooner than expected as Chinese inflation gathers pace after one...)
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| | Global, Tier 1 Mining Companies (David Hunkar submits: In this post, let me list some of the Tier 1 gold miners and a few copper miners. But before we get into the list, here are some interesting facts...)
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| | Long Cable
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| | Close Cable trade
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| | Markets in everything (Jonathan Keats -- a San Francisco-based experimental philosopher who has, over the years, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of space-time proposed by string theory (he...)
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| | Assorted links (1. What if companies could run for political office? 2. Barkley Rosser sends in his referee report on the new Peter Chang restaurant. 3. Excellent post on Greece, politics, history, and...)
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| | Chinese Premier: Currency not undervalued, warns of "Double Dip" Recession
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| | Saturday Night Greece
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| | Unofficial Problem Bank List at 640
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| | Nearing Retirement and Unemployed or Underemployed
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| | IMF Official: World's Regulatory Supervision Shockingly Inadequate
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| | The Forthcoming Financial Reform (March 13, 2010
We are about to enter the great debate on financial reform. Unlike other stymied political initiatives, this one is likely to pass. The final form is...)
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