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angrybear.blogspot.com - 4/12/2009
Larry Summers and Senator Dorgan
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Lawrence Henry Summers, born 1954, mathematically precocious, entered MIT at 16, destined to become the statistician's statistician. Later he would argue that unemployment insurance and welfare encourage long-term unemployment. The argument is a curious one: By encouraging the unemployed to say ...
Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates_English_Xinhua
news.xinhuanet.com - 4/14/2009
Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates_English_Xinhua
— news.xinhuanet.com — BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were... trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday. The Chinese merchant ... (more) Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates_English_Xinhua

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legalinsurrection.blogspot.com - 4/11/2009
When A Woman's Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women
— legalinsurrection.blogspot.com — Talk about the law of unintended consequences. In countries where a woman has a virtually unfettered right... to choose abortion, the result is that women overwhelmingly choose to abort female fetuses. A just published study , reported in the NY Times , ... (more) When A Woman's Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women

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Idiots With Degrees
mahablog.com - 4/11/2009
Idiots With Degrees
— mahablog.com — Proof that someone with a law degree can still be an idiot — The infamous one-child policy... paired with the practice of sex-selective abortion has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls . In Chinese culture, sons are an economic asset and daughters a ... (more) Idiots With Degrees

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uggabugga — Larry Summers, in his own words: (h/t AB) What Causes Long-Term Unemployment? To fully understand unemployment, we must consider the causes of recorded long-term unemployment. Empirical evidence shows that two causes are welfare payments and unemployment insurance. ... First, government assistance increases the measure of unemployment by prompting people who are not working to claim that they are looking for work even when they are not. ... The second way government assistance programs contribute ...

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