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Bailouts Aggravate Financial Crisis
In the New York Times, economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University argues that the $700 billion financial-system bailout is impeding an economic recovery. Because…
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Point/Counterpoint
Germans build “passive houses” to reduce CO2 emissions. British children fall asleep in stuffy eco-classrooms.
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A Price on Carbon is No Panacea
Environmentalists hate coal. The recent This Is Reality campaign also seeks to point out that Clean Coal technology doesn’t exist yet. And they…
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Davis-Bacon from the Pork Barrel
In today’s Wall Street Journal, the Brookings Institution’s Clifford Winston points out some critical pitfalls likely to face the infrastructure spending element of President-elect…
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Are the Golf Carts Made with Union Labor?
Throughout the Detroit automakers’ bailout saga, the United Auto Workers’ leadership has claimed that the union has made enough major concessions to date, and…
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Jail Time for Conflict of Interest?
David Bruggeman at Prometheus has what I think can only be described as an extreme view of conflict of interest: An Emory University Researcher…