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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Corporate Benefits from White House Visits: A Tidbit of Evidence

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Just because corporate executives pay hundreds of visits to the White House doesn't prove that their firms are benefiting from White Hou...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

When Trotsky (Temporarily) Embraced Prices and Markets

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The year was 1932. Leon Trotsky had been already been tossed out of the Communist Party and exiled from Stalin's Soviet Union. Writing ...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

The Slow-Motion Crisis in Government Pensions

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Around the world, life expectancy is rising, birthrates are either falling or stable, and populations are aging. But Mauricio Soto offers so...
Monday, June 5, 2017

What is Killing US Coal?

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US coal output and coal jobs have dropped in recent years. In " What Is Killing the US Coal Industry?", Charles D. Kolstad  names ...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Interview with Hilary Hoynes: Anti-Poverty Programs

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Douglas Clement offers yet another of his excellent interviews, this one with Hilary Hoynes, in The Region , published by the Federal Reserv...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

How America Could Save $65 Billion in Mobile Phone Bills

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It is a fact of nature that all countries have the same electromagnetic spectrum of radio frequencies. It is a fact of politics that countri...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning

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Life and work is more than reading and writing and arithmetic. Being able to function well with others in a wide range of situations is extr...