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The new stimulus package

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Washington Post reports: The government's billion-dollar program to help people prepare for the transition to digital television has run out of money, potentially leaving millions of viewers without coupons to buy converter boxes they need to keep their analog TV sets working after the switch...

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Thomas Sowell on the Economic Stimulus Plan

with Thomas Sowellvia Fox News
Monday, January 5, 2009

As we begin the new year, one of the biggest problems that Americans face is, of course, the economy...

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Annus horribilis: Two futuristic looks at the crash of 2009

with Niall Fergusonvia Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Sunday, January 4, 2009

In 2005's fictional "Countdown to a Meltdown," The Atlantic magazine's James Fallows describes America's coming economic crisis by looking back from the election of 2016 -- when the 46th president of the United States will be the first since before the Civil War to be neither Democrat nor Republican...

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2009 brings hard choices over the future of capitalism

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy new year? You must be joking...

Analysis and Commentary

Misguided Macroeconomics

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The arrival of the new year always is an occasion to reflect on past failures and to make resolutions for the future...

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Unions in the American Economy

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Union members constitute a mere 7.5 percent of the private sector American labor force, only one third of its share 25 years ago...

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An imaginary retrospective of 2009

by Niall Fergusonvia Financial Times
Saturday, December 27, 2008

It was the year when people finally gave up trying to predict the year ahead...

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Parallel Lives

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Tribune Media Services
Friday, December 5, 2008

The Roman moralist Plutarch wrote a number of parallel lives of illustrious Greek and Roman notables to offer his Greek-reading audience ethical lessons about character, virtue, and culture...

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Bail Out the Big Three Auto Producers? Not a Good Idea

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, November 16, 2008

The big three American auto producers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, are in terrible financial shape...

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Against the grand communication alliance

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Financial Times
Thursday, November 13, 2008

The most common feature of “grand alliances” is that they collapse under their own weight...

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