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behindbluelines.com - 6 hours ago
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Regular readers used to prolific posting are doubtless
disappointed in the rather thin postings over the past
several months. I do apologize but plead preoccupation with the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Campaign (TABOR) that concluded with the November 3rd election. Between work and the campaign, I ...
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Back in Gear After the TABOR Campaign
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floppingaces.net - 5 hours ago
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Attorney General Eric Holder is going to take
5 of the most dangerous terrorists from Guantanamo Bay
Prison and try them in a criminal court in New York City. If memory serves, he claims that he talked over this decision with his wife and brother. ...
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Eric Holder’s Motivation [Reader Post]
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qando.net - 5 hours ago
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A fter only 10 months in office in
what he likes to describe as the worst economic
downturn since the Great Depression, President Obama finally has figured out that its all about the economy – and jobs: The president focused his remarks on ...
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Just Words …
themoderatevoice.com - 32 hours ago
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Now that we’ve gotton some of the Chinese
reaction to president Obama’s trip, it’s time to start
sampling the reaction of the rest of the world. This article by the great Thomas Klau of Germany’s Financial Times Deutschland is not encouraging – and points ...
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Obama’s China Trip Announces a ‘World Without ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 34 hours ago
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Arming Ships and Repelling Pirates "Somali pirates understand
one thing and only one thing, and that's force,"
said Captain Joseph Murphy, a maritime security professor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the father of a sailor who was on the Maersk Alabama during the first pirate attack ...
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Defending yourself is a nasty concept among far too many ...
angrybear.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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With all the talk of "Detroit," you would
think that Michigan would have lost the most employees,
as a percentage of same, on the year. After all, the scariest graph of the U.S. MSAs isn't scary for nothing. But the Regional and State Employment data is out for October (h/t CR ), and there's a ...
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I Blame This on the NHL
cato.org - 4 days ago
Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation | Glen Whitman ...
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November 18, 2009 Policy Analysis no. 654 Bending
the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in
Medical Innovation by Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad Glen Whitman is an associate professor of economics at California State University, ...
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Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the ...
telegraph.co.uk - 2 days ago
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Labour peer who has never held elected office
emerged as surprise choice to be EU first foreign
minister.
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EU foreign minister: Lady Ashton to prove she is 'best ...
delong.typepad.com - 47 hours ago
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Paul Krugman reads the tea leaves in what
looks like the best piece of economic analysis I
have read this month. When we do the things we do well, this is the kind of thing we do: Interest rates: the phantom menace : From various bat squeaks ...
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What the U.S. Long Bond Market Is Telling Us...
thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 2 days ago
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Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter said Thursday he would
not support any troop increase to Afghanistan and predicted
a troop increase announcement would meet a cold reception on Capitol Hill. "We ought not to add troops to Afghanistan, I ...
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Specter: Big troop request would meet "cold" reception ...
tnr.com - 2 days ago
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I used to be the foreign editor of
In These Times in Chicago. I didn’t particularly enjoy
the job, because I have never been fascinated with the world outside of the United States. I am not sure whether I could find Honduras or Liberia ...
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Obama in Seoul: My Problem with Foreign News
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ...
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delong.typepad.com - 2 days ago
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Three points to serve as background: First of
all, from the day after the collapse of Lehman
Brothers, the policies followed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. administrations have been very helpful. They have been good ...
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The Puzzles of American Political Economy Today
librarygrape.com - 3 days ago
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Yet another story in the long fight of
for-profit "health" insurance companies to protect their right to
hurt, disable, maim and kill people into order to boost their stock price: One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is its practice of denying claims to pay for ...
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Health Insurance Denials May Lead to Permanent Deafness ...
federalreserve.gov - 6 days ago
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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Economic Club
of New York, New York, New York November 16,
2009 On the Outlook for the Economy and Policy When I last spoke at the Economic Club of New York a little more than a year ago, the financial crisis had just ...
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FRB: Speech--Bernanke, On the Outlook for the Economy ...
delong.typepad.com - 2 days ago
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Mark Thoma is alarmed by our president: Economist's
View: Obama's Wrong-Headed Thinking on the Deficit : Edward
Harrison catches this quote from Obama.... Obama warned the United States' climbing national debt could drag the country ...
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Fiscal Expansion That Is Deficit Neutral in the Long Run
nytimes.com - 2 days ago
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OSHKOSH, Wis. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates
is normally a mild-mannered man, at least in public,
but he unleashed a torrent on Thursday about leaks during the investigation of the Foot Hood shootings and during President Obama ’s deliberations ...
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Gates Condemns Leaks on U.S. Afghan Policy and Ft. Hood
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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At a news conference, Obama said that Iran
has "been unable to get to 'yes,' and so
as a consequence, we have begun discussions with our international partners about the importance of having consequences." Can you even have a weaker statement than that which shows how little resolve he has? ...
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Obama Can't Admit Iran Has Said No
voxeu.org - 3 days ago
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The extraordinary assumptions of macroeconomic models have left
the outside world perplexed about what economists have been
doing during the last few decades. This column contrasts the incongruous rational expectations top-down model with a bottom-up ...
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Research-based policy analysis and commentary from ...
timesonline.co.uk - 3 days ago
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President Hamid Karzai today signalled the beginning of
the end of foreign military intervention in his country,
when he pledged that Afghan security forces would take the lead in combating the Taleban over the next three to five years. In a ...
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Hamid Karzai: foreign troops out of Afghanistan in five ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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There was a pretty funny back and forth
at yesterday's State Department Press Conference (hat tip: Commentary
): QUESTION: Could you give us just a brief synopsis of the progress that Senator Mitchell has made in his months on the job? MR. KELLY: Well, I think we have – we’ve gotten -- ...
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Mitchell's Accomplishments
