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Laugh Lines: How Fed Officials Yuk it Up David Frum, A Buckley For Our Time Traumatized trees: Bug them enough, they get fired up. Impact [...]
Non-resident state taxes
What a mess. Sigh... The only really good news is that this site is pretty handy. Also, Kansas really has their act together with e-file. [...]
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Does Austrian economics understand financial crises better than other schools of thought? But... ack! Austrian economics: School of economic thought originating in Austria in the [...]
Krugman on climate change
Paul Krugman has a climate change article coming out in the NYT magazine this weekend. Mostly I think this is an excellent summary, but I [...]
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Four dead in Anacortes refinery explosion and fire The Woman Who Just Might Save the Planet and Our Pocketbooks. What if our economy was not [...]
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David Brooks predicts the death and rebirth of economics: The Return of History. Why comedy might make someone a good politician: "There’s a simple rule: [...]
Harry Potter economics
From BGI student David Rutherford: Peregrine Bosler posted on Facebook that a friend of hers' equates studying econ with the dark arts, although comparing it [...]
Two thoughts on transportation security
Not terribly brilliant or original, but: The reason you shouldn't argue with TSA folks (e.g., about how many carry-ons you can bring on-board a flight [...]
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Airborne bears to catch bin Laden, and other letters to the Pentagon. Letter #1: "Bears have scent detection that is far superior to bloodhounds! Trained [...]
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Nature Conservancy's carbon footprint calculator. How the G.O.P. Goes Green (Lindsey Graham) Senators to propose abandoning cap-and-trade Hayhoe's dairy paper in PNAS South Dakota legislators [...]