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• Open thread Dec. 4, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:47pm EST
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• Mid week open thread Dec. 3, 2009

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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:36am EST
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• Proposed Financial Overhaul Bill

  —Angry Bear

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  How does Congress keep track of such things, if at all, and again who reads these things except those willing to be wonks or lobbyists?
  
  Sen. Chris Dodds Proposed Financial Overhaul Bill can be found at the link.
  
  Huffington Post notes that de novo [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:03pm EST
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• Taxes and the Private Sector, Part 2 Would You Like Some Lags with That?

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  Number of comments: 45
  by cactus
  
  Taxes and the Private Sector, Part 2: Would You Like Some Lags with That?
  This post follows up last week’s look at how taxes on the private sector affect growth in the private sector. In that post, the data simply refused to cough up anything that [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 5:34pm EST
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• Open thread Nov. 29, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:47am EST
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• Open thread Nov. 28, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:47pm EST
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• Dubai's work force...a side note on current events

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  No Sweat adds another facet to the crisis in Dubai...mobility of labor and wages. I cannot imagine what conditions are like to produce a strike in this city. If the players default in high finance, do they go to debtors' prison like most everyone else?
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:56pm EST
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• The Great Trade Collapse...VoxEU

  —Angry Bear

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  Richard Baldwin at VoxEU introduces a new book on “great trade collapse” before the WTO meeting occurring shortly.
  
  Re-posted with attribution:
  
  The Great Trade Collapse
  
  World trade experienced a sudden, severe and synchronised collapse in late 2008 – the sharpest in recorded history and deepest [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:47pm EST
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• Happy Thanks giving

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  Number of comments: 5
  Have a good Thanksgiving folks.
  
  From all the Bears [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• Comparative Effectiveness Research

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 12
  by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt
  
  Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) may have inadvertently lost credibility even before health care reform is actually launched.
  
  CER is the darling of the government-dominated health reform movement (not a government take-over, to be clear). The use of evidence-based medicine when combined with cost-benefit [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:49am EST
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• China’s Industrial Policy vs. US Random Behavior...Firedoglake

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  Number of comments: 41
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  Firedoglake presents a well written piece on US and Chinese trade policy:
  
  China’s Industrial Policy vs. US Random Behavior
  
  The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission has issued its annual report {giant .pdf}. Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:39am EST
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• Taxes and Private Sector

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 66
  by cactus
  
  Regular readers know that (together with a currently un-named co-author) I recently wrote a book looking at how Presidents performed on a wide range of issues, everything from abortion to the economy. The book is currently scheduled to come out next year (more info as it becomes [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:02pm EST
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• Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full, Part 2

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 29
  November 12, 2009
  Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full Part 2
  
    by Maggie Mahar, Health Beat Blog
  
  Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full, Part 2
  
  The Truth about the Public Option
  
  For reasons I don’t understand, progressive pundits have been swallowing Congressional Budget Office [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• JP MORGAN: THE JOBLESS RECOVERY WON’T BE SO BAD

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 12
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  Pragmatic capitalist points us to thinking that works for some.
  
  The strategy outlook at JP Morgan is little changed over the last week despite some sobering news out of the labor department last Friday. The bad news on jobs is no longer a surprise to [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:42am EST
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• Comment woes.

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 13
  Js-kit has some comments embedded in the post, at the bottom of each post after clicking on the title of the post you want to read. There is a disconnect with the blue comment link at the top of the post (blogger comment format). Very inconvenient. Sorry.
  
  Update: Blogger [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:17pm EST
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• Open thread Nov. 21, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:24am EST
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• Open thread Nov. 20, 2009 (with GW)

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  Number of comments: 120
  Update:
  Menzie Chin weighs in:
  
  http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2009/11/the_global_surf.html [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:24pm EST
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• Heath Care Reform-- Looking at the Glass Half-Full

  —Angry Bear

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  (Run 75441...h/t)
  
  Maggie Mahar writes an essay that is now cross posted at Angry Bear with the author's permission:
  
  Health Beat, a Project of the Century Foundation;
  November 4, 2009 Heath Care Reform-- Looking at the Glass Half-Full
  
  What Has Been Accomplished; What [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:16pm EST
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• Top down or bottom up models....useful thoughts

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 3
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  Hat tip to Economist's View for the post from Top-down versus bottom-up macroeconomics, by Paul De Grauwe, Commentary, Vox EU for starting an interesting conversation on macro that I think is very relevant to the public story we tell ourselves about how our economy works. One [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:52am EST
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• Template woes

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 20
  My apologies for the inconvenience of changing the template. Even feed links were changed about in the transfer. Since the posts are intact, my first priority is fixing comments with js kit (and blogger comments for new).
  
  Dan [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:30am EST
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• Mid week open thread Nov. 18, 2009

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:32am EST
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• The Mythology of the Future Job Market

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 34
  Rdan
  
  Martin Ford continues his thoughts on:
  
  The Mythology of the Future Job Market
  
  Angry Bear recently picked up an article by Michael Lind at Salon on the jobs of tomorrow. The story notes that advancing job automation technology is going to be the primary force [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:07am EST
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• ER: It is the law, and often a slogan "Everyone can get care"

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 1
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  Not only is ER care enormously expensive for 'more routine' health concerns than a clinic, but perhaps are not equal for insure/uninsured even for traffic accidents, not withstanding our best wishes.
  
  Sphere notes a report from the Archives of Surgery:
  
  It's federal law: All' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:34am EST
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• Changing the look...heads up!

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  I will be switching the template this week. The key is function this week...Let me know if everything works from comments to links. Next week come refinements. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:55pm EST
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• The weather was beautiful on the day I was almost murdered.

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 2
  by cactus
  
  The weather was beautiful on the day I was almost murdered. Since it happened (or almost happened) in Brazil, it might not seem surprising that the weather was nice, but this was São Paulo where the only certainty is pollution. Beautiful days in São Paulo are worth [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:20am EST
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• unemployment

  —Angry Bear

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  After having received e-mails regarding Mark Thoma's post on types of unemployment about who was included and excluded from the per centages, I thought a note on the relevance of the employment to population ratio to be worth repeating from comments on that post.
  
  Lifted from comments [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:46am EST
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• The jobs of tomorrow...?

  —Angry Bear

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  For the sake of argument, jobs in our future over the next few years or so appear to be in the health care industry and education. Jobs needing less education than a BA are among the fastest growing.
  Where are tomorrow's jobs going to come from?' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:52am EST
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• Open thread No. 14, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:04am EST
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• Open thread No. 13, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:00pm EST
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• ‘New Normal’ For Unemployment?

  —Angry Bear

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  CBS Moneywatch now features Mark Thoma about 10 posts a month.
  
  Apropos Angry Bear exploration of "structural unemployment", Mark writes on the topic of unemployment:
  
  The types of unemployment
  
  Economists define three types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment is defined [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:48am EST
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• More on the Estate Tax

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 0
  by Linda Beale
  (cross posted with ataxingmatter)
  
  Tax Prof and its commenters
  
  More on the Estate Tax--the Heritage Foundation speaks gobbledygook
  hat tip to Tax Prof and its commenters
  
  The Heritage Foundation, I'm afraid I've concluded, is not a "think tank" at all--it's a' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• More on the Looming Structural Unemployment Crisis

  —Angry Bear

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  Martin Ford continues his theme in the following post, on comparative advantage:
  
  More on the Looming Structural Unemployment Crisis, and on Comparative Advantage
  
  In my previous post, I suggested that job automation technology might someday advance to the point where most routine or repetitive jobs [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:18am EST
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• The Changing Face of Health Care Fraud

  —Angry Bear

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  Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt
  
  The Changing Face of Health Care Fraud
  
  Every President since Gerald Ford has campaigned against Medicare and Medicaid “waste, fraud and abuse.” Ditto many people campaigning for Congress.
  
  The primary fraud prevention systems are aimed at providers, with the Office of Inspector General [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:58pm EST
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• Airlines, A La Carte Pricing, Deregulation and Executive Pay - A Hodge Podge

  —Angry Bear

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  by cactus
  
  Recently the ex-GF and I were traveling, and we ended up flying on United. I haven’t flown on United in recent years, as it hasn’t been a major carrier in a number of the places I’ve lived recently. Now maybe things have changed since the previous time [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• Pre-view new template

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  Quick look at the new template, unfinished form. Any wishes? [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:53pm EST
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• Open thread Nov.7, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:08am EST
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• Political economy of lobbying

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  David Zetland at Aguanomics had some fun with a lecture and thought exercise.
  
  02 November 2009
  The Political Economy of Lobbying
  
  Last week, I taught my students about different auction techniques. After I auctioned four books under different rules, I auctioned $1.00 for $3.75.
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:47am EST
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• Open thread Nov. 6, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:08pm EST
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• One man's past experience with technological change and employment

  —Angry Bear

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  lifted from comments by run 75441
  
  These are comments that I found interesting describing change to manufacturing processes over tha last few decades. It made for a foil next to Martin ford's projections and our understanding of past events. It is not a post but I learned a few' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• Could Advancing Job Automation Technology Cause Structural Unemployment?

  —Angry Bear

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  Martin Ford offers one man's look into the future of a world in the USA of the results of continued increasing productivity, increasing income inequality, declining wage compensation, and consumption supported by debt.
  
  Robert touched on the issue recently, and Sandwichman has developed a range of [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:28am EST
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• Finacial blogger impressions

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  Steve Waldman at Interfluidity has written an impression of The financial blogger meeting with senior Treasury officials of last Monday. He also provides links to other main posts by those who attended. It is worth a visit. [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:06am EST
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• Bruce Webb, Dale Coberly, Arne Larson and the National Academy of Social Insurance

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  The National Academy of Social Insurance report on options for Social Security is public and now available in pdf form. "The purpose of this report is to help analysts and policymakers consider options to bring Social Security into long-term balance in ways that also address concerns about" [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:52am EST
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• Mid week open thread Nov. 4, 2009

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:05am EST
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• Going to Washington as a financial blogger

  —Angry Bear

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  Yves Smith describes a meeting she attended at Treasury in D.C. Read at her place or the rest under the fold.
  
  The Treasury invited a small group of bloggers for a “discussion” with senior officials on Monday. Initially, the meeting was to be background, which [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:17pm EST
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• The Rule of Capture and Legalized Theft

  —Angry Bear

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  by cactus
  
  The Rule of Capture and Legalized Theft
  
  
  The rule of capture states that a resource belongs to the entity that, well, captured it, regardless of where that resource originated. In the US, it tends to apply to oil and natural gas development.
  
  What [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:56am EST
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• Happy Haloween

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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:26am EDT
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• Open thread Oct. 31, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:25am EDT
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• Open thread Oct. 30, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:25pm EDT
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• 1204 and forever...more unitary executive?

  —Angry Bear

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  Hat tip Naked Capitalism regarding the Financial Stabilility Improvement Act as described by Washington's Blog concerning banks/investment companies 'too big to fail' actions by the US and EU countries.
  October 29, 2009 begins testimony on more emergency powers by the executive branch.
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:07pm EDT
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• New look for Angry Bear

  —Angry Bear

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  The new template is done for the most part and will be replacing the current template in November, about mid-month. It is faster and cleaner and should serve us well. There will be additional services included. Anyone who wants to take a look at the proto-type can in [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:19am EDT
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• Greenberg returns

  —Angry Bear

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  rdan
  
  Greenberg is back using the same business strategies he used at AIG.
  
  (hat tip Ruthie Ackerman, assoc. ed. New Deal 2.0) To point to Marshall Auerback an investment strategist who writes at New Deal 2.0 "Happy Halloween: Pay Curbs are a Trick on the Taxpayer," [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:39am EDT
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• Report from Chicago

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 0
  guest post by run 75441
  
  While the American Banking Association held their "Roaring Twenties" party to kick off their annual meeting, people from 20 different states, as far away as California, came together to kick off "Showdown Chicago" protesting the loss of jobs and the harsh and speculative practices [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:46am EDT
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• Marginal benefits

  —Angry Bear

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  by cactus
  
  How much are all those folks at the various TARP corporate welfare recipients worth? We're being deluged with stories about how many executives at such institutions are leaving because the big bad gubmint is limiting their pay, and how that's going to hurt us in the long' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:24am EDT
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• The Newest “Hot Thing”

  —Angry Bear

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  Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt
  
  The Newest “Hot Thing”
  
  As promised, after an eight day swing of health care conferences (speaking and listening) I am back in action. So what is the new hot thing among providers?
  
  Integrated Delivery Systems (IDS)
  
  This is hot, but not really [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 5:17am EDT
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• Golf Carts, On street legal, and NEVS

  —Angry Bear

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  Wired offers pictures of tricked out electric vehicles. Muscle car readers age 80 86 years old! You know who you are.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:04am EDT
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• A reader's note

  —Angry Bear

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  rdan
  
  Reader donald sent this note for consideration:
  
  Sunday night while slogging back up to Burlington from Hartford, CT (460 miles round trip as it turns out) we were listening to NPR. I didn't think to make a note of what show, but it was discussing health care' [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 5:46am EDT
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• Open thread Oct 24, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 5:00am EDT
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• Humor, grammar, and logic and wobegone attitudes

  —Angry Bear

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  rdan
  
  This American Psychological Association study is a follow up to Robert's Wobegone economics post. Taken from comments by reader rd.
  
  The abstract is quoted:
  
  People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 4:46am EDT
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• Open thread October 23, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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• Link worth noting is at Tax Prof Blog

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 0
  by Linda Beale
  (cross posted from ataxingmatter)
  
  (Rdan: The link worth noting is Susan Altmeyer's...the Journal opinion is simply misleading)
  
  Link worth noting : Wall St.Journal and Golf Carts
  
  Tax Prof noted the Wall Street Journal editorial titled Cash for Clubbers(Oct. 17, 2009), which suggests that' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:35am EDT
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• Showdown in chicago

  —Angry Bear

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  rdan
  
  Dean Baker suggests some action in the form of a demonstration at the Chicago Bankers Association meeting October 25-26, 2009.
  
  Yves at Naked Capistalism recommends going, and Slate open forum contains comments.
  
  Several readers who live in the region have indicated they [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:19am EDT
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• Consumer protection and bank regulation

  —Angry Bear

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  (cross posted from Roosevelt Institution)
  
  Rdan here...'Opt in' or 'opt out' is one basic profit strategy device for use of a 'service'. A personal example comes in the form of my son with Chase Bank checking account. Because a transfer of funds was late (our fault) of $240, [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:46am EDT
  by Rdan

• Spare Us From the Invisible Hand

  —Angry Bear

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  by Gavin Kennedy
  
  Spare Us From the Invisible Hand
  
  Patrick Kilbride writes in Chamber Post HERE:
  
  “Free People, Free Minds, Free Markets”
  
  ‘In the 18th-century, Adam Smith left us with the indelible image of markets producing desirable social outcomes through the work of [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 5:27am EDT
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• Open thread Oct. 17, 2009 (with GW)

  —Angry Bear

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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 6:01am EDT
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• Wired for sterotypes and stereotypical respones?

  —Angry Bear

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  rdan
  
  Stereotypes and the brain suggests that older folk (over 60-88) are more susceptible to stereotypical thinking than younger people (age 18-25).
  
  A decade ago, a research team led by William von Hippel of the University of Queensland challenged that assumption. The psychologists proposed that older people [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 5:46am EDT
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• Open thread Oct. 16, 2009 (no GW)

  —Angry Bear

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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
  by Rdan

• Elinor Ostrom - An End to Homo Economicus?

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 0
  by Gavin Kennedy (cross posted from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy)
  
  Elinor Ostrom - An End to Homo Economicus?
  
  Mario Rizzo writes (13 Oct) in Wall Street Pit HERE and Here:
  
  “Elinor Ostrom and the Relevance of Economics”
  
  “In fact, I would venture the [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:00am EDT
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• Globalized medicare vouchers

  —Angry Bear

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  rdan
  
  Dean Baker suggests an intriguing innovation to competition in healthcare:
  
  While health care may at first blush not seem suitable for international trade, since the delivery is place specific, on closer inspection there are ways that the United States could benefit from the more efficient health [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:24am EDT
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• Identify the Invisible Hand!

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 0
  by Gavin Kennedy
  (cross posted from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy)
  
  Identify the Invisible Hand!
  
  Alex Tabarrok writes on the Nobel Prize for Oliver Williamson in an article on the Marginal Revolution Blog “Oliver Williamson and the pin factory”, which is fine but it contains the [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:02am EDT
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• Mid week open thread Oct. 14, 2009

  —Angry Bear

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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 7:50pm EDT
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• Political lawn signs

  —Angry Bear

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  by cactus
  
  I live in a city of with less than a quarter million people. (The greater metropolitan area is larger, of course - there are well over half a million people in the surrounding area.) Since we moved here a year and change ago, its hard to avoid [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:38am EDT
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• A Year and Counting: re-regulation of Wall Street

  —Angry Bear

  Number of comments: 0
  by Linda Beale
  
  A Year and Counting: re-regulation of Wall Street
  
  On Monday night, I participated in a symposium on the Financial Crisis: One Year Later, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Citizenship and others. With me were Larry Ingrassia, Business Editor of the New York [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:06am EDT
  by Rdan

• Child Labor Through the Strange Filter of Orthodox Economics

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  Child Labor Through the Strange Filter of Orthodox Economics
  
  Peter Dorman at Econospeak notes that our official line concerning child labor in international trade has little research to back it up, and tends to always say 'don't mess with trade':
  
  There is much to endorse in' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 8:03am EDT
  by Rdan

• Tanker Saga, Continued

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  by reader ilsm
  
  The Tanker Saga, Continued, New York Times Oct 8 2009:
  Trying to recover from past mistakes, the Pentagon has initiated a third competition for a new Air Force midair refueling tanker. After two bungled attempts, defense officials, contractors and Congress really need to get it [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 7:41am EDT
  by Rdan

• Regulatory Capture of the USDA

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  by cactus
  
  Time to End Regulatory Capture of the USDA by the Meat Packing Industry
  
  A couple years ago, I had a post looking at particularly egregious case of regulatory capture. I noted that the gubmint refused to allow a small meat packing company to test all [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 5:47am EDT
  by Rdan

• Adam Smith in a broader context

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  by guest poster Gavin Kennedy
  
  (Rdan-A reader comments on the Research Agenda post on Adam Smith. The comments could not handle the volume of text, so I took the liberty of putting up the comment and the response. Good work guys):
  
  The reader suggests Mr. Gavin consider the [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 8:53am EDT
  by Rdan

• Open thread Oct. 10, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 6:29am EDT
  by Rdan

• Open thread Oct. 9, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
  by Rdan

• A Research Agenda

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  cross posted with Gavin Kennedy
  
  Rdan here...Gavin Kennedy in his blog Adam Smith's Lost Legacy notes how the 'invisible hand' is used in modern economics and especially the media, and begins to lay out the challenge. The entire post follows:
  
  Monday, October 05, 2009
  
  A [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:31am EDT
  by Rdan

• g7-vs-g5-in-charts

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  by Rebecca
  Cross posted from Newsneconomics
  
  These are interesting times in global economics, especially from the policy perspective. And although there was a sense of global urgency across the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, UK, and US) and the G5 (Brazil, People's Republic of China, India, [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:45am EDT
  by Rdan

• Medicaid Dilemmas – Part 1

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  by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt
  
  Medicaid Dilemmas – Part 1
  
  Medicaid is a federal/state program covering poor people, with general services for all ages and long-term care (nursing home) services for the indigent elderly.
  
  State budgets are extremely tight, and many states are cutting reimbursements, including nursing [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  by Rdan

• The Logan Act...if you are curious

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  rdan
  
  The Logan Act has remained almost unchanged and unused since its passage. The act is short and reads as follows:
  
  Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:30am EDT
  by Rdan

• What's Your Top Ten List for Tax Reforms?

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  by Linda Beale
  (cross posted with ataxingmatter)
  
  What's Your Top Ten List for Tax Reforms?
  
  Tax Prof's ongoing discussion of potential tax reforms to be suggested to the Volcker Commission got me thinking what my own "top ten" would be. I'll list them here, but I invite' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 9:48am EDT
  by Rdan

• Mid week open thread Oct. 6. 2009

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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:30am EDT
  by Rdan

• Public Option...for property insurance

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  Trent Lott demonstrates pretty normal behavior for people who think they are prepared and are not...I guess he did not need to sign a waiver of never regretting not buying public backed insurance. Of course, how that gibes with the rhetoric of no public option and 'taking responsibility' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 5:00am EDT
  by Rdan

• Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

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  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy, a blog maintained by Gavin Kennedy who resides in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a wonderful gem to visit to take a thorough look at the broad extent of Smith's writings. He makes a wonderful defense of Adam Smith that rescues his reputation as a [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:40am EDT
  by Rdan

• Open thread Oct. 3, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 8:14am EDT
  by Rdan

• Draining liquidity from the banking system

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  by Rebecca
  (cross posted at Newsneconomics)
  
  Prof. Jim Hamilton at Econbrowser (thanks Mark Thoma for the link) addresses one of the Fed’s standard methods of draining liquidity from the banking system: reverse repurchase agreements. Basically, the Fed will transfer some of its assets to the banking system [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 5:55am EDT
  by Rdan

• Open thread Oct. 2, 2009 (no GW)

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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 11:14pm EDT
  by Rdan

• Patience with comments dear reader

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  The comments should be faster today, and direct to Echo rather than through Haloscan. That appears to be the case, but I am not getting to old comments in a timely matter. I will be working on this angle today.
  
  Update: Comments appear to be functioning well, and more [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:40am EDT
  by Rdan

• The form of health insurance matters

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  by Linda Beale
  
  Linda Beale writes at ataxingmatter:
  
  Health Care Reform or a boondoggle for private insurers?
  
  The Baucus proposal for health care "reform" doesn't include a public option. And the Senate Finance Committee voted this afternoon-by 15 to 8--to reject the Rockefeller proposal to add' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 5:07am EDT
  by Rdan

• PEW Trust summary report on regulatory models

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  rdan
  
  The PEW economic policy department task force report suggests we take a better look at other models of regulation, perhaps to Australia.
  
  In this short paper we look at the structure of international financial regulation in teh context of their response to the crisis in order to [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:09am EDT
  by Rdan

• OCC non-regulation keeps momentum going for Citi bank

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  rdan
  
  Seeking Alpha's Matthew Goldstein notes that the OCC is continuing the last decade of regulatory non-action.
  
  The OCC, in its quarterly derivatives report, routinely notes that the Big Four “have the resources needed to be able to operate this business in a safe and sound' [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:53am EDT
  by Rdan

• How malpractice drives health care costs

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  by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt
  
  How malpractice drives health care costs.
  
  This is a bullet point narrative, representing a long time line, but illustrates what happens to drive health care costs:
  Emergency physicians use x-rays to diagnose closed-head injuries and miss brain bleeds. The hospital and physicians are threatened [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 5:03am EDT
  by Rdan

• Last week on a floating buffet

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  by cactus
  
  I spent last week on a floating buffet. I had never been on a cruise before, and I was pleasantly surprised. The service was amazing, though I'm not sure having someone make the beds twice a day isn't overkill. The food, in general, was quite good. Even [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 8:39am EDT
  by Rdan

• How to target the poor?

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  rdan
  
  Several other conferences are happening elsewhere in the world, but with less fanfare than in Pittsburgh, both in media coverage and police activity. We do forget the 'smaller' issues of distibution of goods, so here is a reminder.
  
  How to target the poor?
  
  How can [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  by Rdan

• Honest elections on a continuum

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  rdan
  
  Chris Blattman has an interesting note reminding us of how US elections were done and offers a little consolation about elections in Afghanistan. [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 8:23am EDT
  by Rdan

• Open thread Sept. 26, 2009 (without GW)

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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 7:09am EDT
  by Rdan

• Open thread Sept. 25, 2009 (with GW)

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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
  by Rdan

• New Bear

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  Noni Mausa has agreed to become the latest 'Bear' who will contribute on a regular basis to Angry Bear. Her wit and gracious style as a professional writer (and poet) are familiar to regulars, but she has been captured for now as a contributor. An addition of spice to the [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:48am EDT
  by Rdan