- King County’s death-penalty dilemma: Soaring cost worth it?
- As Texas Dries Out, Life Falters and Fades
- The Hope That Flows From History, By CHRISTINA D. ROMER (a comparison of the Great Depression and now)
- Chinese Director’s Path From Rebel to Insider
- Washington Carbon Tax: New Model and Analysis: How a BC-style carbon tax would work in Washington.
- Chasing Rainbows: Economic Myths, Environmental Facts by Tim Worstall
- Test Can Tell Fetal Sex at 7 Weeks, Study Says
- Offsets Could Make Up 85% of Calif.’s Cap-And-Trade Program
- While the Markets Swoon …: Has any president in American history left behind as much lasting damage as George W. Bush? In addition to two unfinished wars, he also set us on the path to our current financial mess. The Bush tax cuts, which turned a surplus into a growing deficit, have been disastrous. As James Fallows pointed out in a prescient 2005 article in The Atlantic predicting a meltdown, they reduced tax revenue “to its lowest level as a share of the economy in the modern era.” (In its downgrade report, S.& P. suggested that it did not believe that Congress would let the cuts expire at the end of 2012, as they’re supposed to.) Then, in 2003, Bush pushed through prescription drug coverage for Medicare recipients. David M. Walker, then the comptroller general, described 2003 as “the most reckless fiscal year in the history of the Republic,” adding some $13 trillion in future entitlement costs.
- An Economist for Nature Calculates the Need for More Protection (about Gretchen Daily)
- M.J. Perry Jr., Legal Pioneer, Dies at 89: On out-of-town cases, he was barred from motels and had to drive home to sleep, no matter the distance.
- Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say
- Five (and Then Some) Tech Tips for Travel
- A Brazilian’s Comic Mania: Social Media
- Cubans Set for Big Change: Right to Buy Homes
- Jokes, Quotations, and Cartoons in Economics, a lesson plan featuring yours truly!
- Plans for 150 US Coal Plants Have Been Scrapped Since 2001, ‘Massive’ Closures of U.S. Coal Plants Loom, Chu Says, U.S. coal power boom suddenly wanes
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