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WaPo: Surveying the flaming wreckage - A DC-based friend wrote today to say that he had finally abandoned the Washington Post, a paper he used to really like. The final straw was this piece alle...2 hours ago
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Obama Throws a Wobbly First Pitch - President Obama threw out the first pitch at baseball's All-Star Game on Tuesday night.5 hours ago
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Bernie Madoff Was Only a Petty Crook Compared with Uncle Sam - Bernard Madoff was in the news again today. I quote here from a CNBC report, adding my own commentary to put the report into perspective. Disgraced financi...5 hours ago
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Build a DIY Portable Air Conditioner [Beat The Heat] - We've shown you how to make an air conditioner (even for as low as $30), but what if you wanted something you can put in your car and take with you? Inst...6 hours ago
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Is Sotomayor Overly Aggressive on the Bench or Just One of the Guys? - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham "likes" Sotomayor despite that she's a terror to other lawyers.8 hours ago
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Q. and A. on the War in Afghanistan - This week on The Lede, New York Times correspondent Richard A. Oppel Jr. will be answering questions from readers about the war in Afghanistan.8 hours ago
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Cognition & Culture - In case you don't know, the Cognition & Culture group blog is of some interest. One of the contributors is Dan Sperber, who I interviewed a few years ago. ...8 hours ago
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Are Roadside Memorials a Hazard? - This is an evergreen issue in highway safety, one that the New York Times has recently opened for debate. I brought up the issue recently after a trip to M...8 hours ago
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What'll it be? Inflation or deflation? Or both? - Lost in the fear of inflation that has gripped many for months, is the reverse and almost silent bull market killer, deflation. In recent days however we ha...8 hours ago
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What is Lois Lowry reading? - The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Lois Lowry, author of over 30 books for children, including the Newbery Award-winning Number the Stars (199...8 hours ago
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MySpace - Returning to Entertainment? - I was living vicariously through WSJ's Julia Angwin's Mogul-fest tweets last week (ironically throughout the week she tweeted that several moguls didn't see ...9 hours ago
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Mapping Workouts With iPhone GPS - Put your iPhone to work when you work out, using GPS apps that track your runs.9 hours ago
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Tina Brown's bizarre defense of Hillary Clinton - My fellow FP blogger David Rothkopf already noted the weirdly sexist overtones in Tina Brown's *Daily Beast* piece referring to Hillary Clinton as Barack...9 hours ago
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House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill w/CBO Prelim Analysis - by Bruce Webb House Education and Labor:: America's Affordable Health Choices Act all links from the Committee web page. Summary Bill Text (1.7 MB PDF) ...10 hours ago
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Give Me Your Odd Pairs - I love to collect examples of bizarre pairs of goods that sellers or buyers apparently believe are complements or substitutes.11 hours ago
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A funny thing happened update - More than a week has passed since the Regulation D changes went into effect, and it appears that the changes are having a noticeable, if not dramatic, impact...11 hours ago
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Do for-profit hospitals reduce safety net services? - Social safety net services are necessary, but often unprofitable for hospitals. Is the expansion of HMOs and for-profit hospitals jeopardizing these safety...11 hours ago
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A Literary Garage Sale - Looking for a nice literary artifact? Edith Wharton's letters - a packet sold at auction for more than $180,000 last month - may be out of reach, but colle...12 hours ago
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Is brain death, death? - The New Atlantis magazine has an in-depth article discussing the difficulty in defining death and why arguments about the brain have become central to unders...12 hours ago
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investing in democracy: the case of CARE - Investing in Democracy is Carmen Sirianni's extremely important book about how governments at all levels can help citizens and communities to collaborate in ...13 hours ago
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Moon Landing Conspiracy Debunking, pt. 10^9. - A few days ago we briefly mentioned the chemtrail conspiracy theory in the context of water vapor in the atmosphere. Chemtrails are one of those conspira...15 hours ago
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Barack Obama, Supply-Sider (by Don Boudreaux) - Here's a letter that I sent recently to the Washington Post: Seeking to encourage African governments to embrace institutions that promote economic growth, P...16 hours ago
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Delaware’s Art of Judging - (Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Katrina Dewey, CEO & Publisher, Lawdragon, Inc.) Richard Posner should have been a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I...17 hours ago
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BIS Conference Papers - A couple of interesting looking papers on the financial crisis and the future of macroeconomics were presented at the 8th Bank of International Settlements c...1 day ago
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Will the Chinese Keep Saving? - This is Rachel Ziemba of RGE Monitor where this post also appears. In a recent post, Jeffrey Frankel asks will the U.S. Keep Saving? noting that despite th...1 day ago
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Twitter Grows Again - The growth is back, impressive but slower than before, but it's probably quite a relief over at Twitter HQ to see no continuation of the trend from last mo...1 day ago
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The Greatest Show on Earth - In the latest edition of Publisher's Weekly, I have a short review of The Greatest Show on Earth, the forthcoming book from Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawk...1 day ago
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Monday Message Board - Its time once again for Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language.1 day ago
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Legislation on Clean Energy-Becker - In late June the House of Representatives approved The American Clean Energy and Security Act. If the Senate approves a similar version, this would constitut...2 days ago
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Neuroeconomics survey - NEUROECONOMICS - ACTUAL DIRECTIONS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Popescu, Bondrea & Constantinescu Our article offers a survey of behavioral economics and in...2 days ago
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Your Comments on Charity: Water - My Sunday column is focused on one man's efforts to build a new aid group, charity: water, but more broadly it's about how we can connect those who want to...3 days ago
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BBC World Service - You know, as an economist and especially one who is researching and thinking about serious public policy constantly, to be interviewed by the BBC World Ser...5 days ago
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“The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?” - Barry Eichengreen and Doug Irwin look at the drivers of Depression-era protectionism: The Great Depression was marked by protectionist trade policies and t...5 days ago
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Rethinking the Mall - At a convention for shopping mall designers and developers, a glimpse of the future and, unfortunately, the past.1 month ago
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Barack Obama: The First 100 Days - Barack Obama is approaching the end of his first 100 days in office as the United States’ 44th President. Traditionally viewed by the media as the first in...2 months ago
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Gadget guru on the move - Paul Taylor continues to answer your gadgetry questions. Visit his updated Gadget guru page to see questions and answers on the latest gizmos, software an...3 months ago
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New site - I have a new site at *WordPress*: http://www.harryrclarke.com/ *Readers please adjust your browser settings. * ** It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a wh...3 months ago
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For we are young and free? - As I've been spending this Australia Day long weekend writing about the paternalist nanny state in health policy, I have been struck by the multiplicity of...5 months ago
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Now also with non-English blogs - Now that I have figured out how to make the welcome message stick at the top, I will also post from time to time about additions. For the moment, I have ad...10 months ago
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The Noisy Game of Baseball - By Julie J. Rehmeyer Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far...1 year ago
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