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Great Holiday News: We're Spending $1 Billion Less a Day on Gas!
newsbusters.org - 12/26/2008
Great Holiday News: We're Spending $1 Billion Less a Day on Gas!
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Looking for your own financial bailout? Well, the unprecedented decline in gasoline prices the past five months is actually giving regular Americans a much-needed boost to their balance sheets, possibly greater than what the government is doling out to the financial service and automobile ...
eschatonblog.com - 12/29/2008
Gas Tax
— eschatonblog.com — The advantage of a gas tax is that is does line up prices more closely with actual... cost, due to various externalities, and that by putting the money towards SUPERTRAINS and other transit improvements the costs of a regressive tax can be turned into ... (more) Gas Tax
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swamppolitics.com - 12/25/2008
Barack Obama's holiday address
— swamppolitics.com — By John McCormick HONOLULU - President-elect Barack Obama is using his holiday radio address to remember the... nation's troops serving overseas and those at home struggling amid a troubled economy. "Many troops are serving their second, third, or ... (more) Barack Obama's holiday address

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delong.typepad.com - 12/27/2008
Spending Does too Work!
— delong.typepad.com — Tyler Cowen is too pessimistic: Marginal Revolution: Fiscal policy and the burden of proof : Don't let... those switches distract you. My point is simple: it is very hard to find examples of successful fiscal stimulus driving an economic ... (more) Spending Does too Work!
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