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America’s classroom equality battle

with Eric Hanushekvia Financial Times
Sunday, May 10, 2009

The most ambitious US presidency in living memory hardly needs to extend its list of tasks, you might think...

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Speaking truth to power

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Deep truths from Clifford Asness, manager of AQR Capital Management, a $20 billion hedge fund, responds to President Obama's complaint that the hedge funds ruined the rescue of Chrysler for refusing to "sacrifice." (HT: Alan Schram)...

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How Job-Findings, Not Job-Loss, Explain Unemployment

with Robert E. Hallvia New Republic
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Steven Greenhouse at the Times does a nice job putting a sunny spin on the job situation: Since November, the nation has lost more than three million jobs...

Analysis and Commentary

This epochal crisis requires us to resolve the paradox of capitalism

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

At work, we're told to be diligent and disciplined; elsewhere, hedonistic and self-indulgent...

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FACTS ON POLICY: Retirement Accounts

via Hoover Institution
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Did you know . . . ? Retirement savings account for 35 percent of all household financial assets...

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For the record

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Paul Krugman notes that nominal wages are falling for some workers...

Analysis and Commentary

Pandemics and Depressions

by Robert J. Barrovia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Here we are, struggling to find a way out of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, when along comes the possibility of a global influenza epidemic...

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Optimism Despite The March Of The Economists

with Niall Fergusonvia Forbes
Monday, May 4, 2009

Not in recent memory have economists been so popular, nor were more in the steady march of dispensing wisdom nightly on TV, in columns, installed as federal potentates, czars of financial recovery and as pundits, prognosticators and purveyors of wisdom--everywhere...

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Some Economics of Flu Pandemics

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Every century or so, a major flu pandemic (an epidemic with a global impact) occurs...

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Mexico's economy gets slammed by flu epidemic

with Stephen Habervia San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, May 3, 2009

The potentially deadly H1N1 flu virus is delivering a harsh blow to a Mexican economy and millions of poor workers already crushed by an economic contagion from the United States...

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