President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to [...]
People respond to incentives. When a product is profitable, that gives people an incentive to develop substitutes. These developments do not magically come about. They are the result of hard work, luck, and opportunity, and sometimes it takes awhile. From the Wall Street Journal:
From the time of the California [...]
The University of North Texas is going to build a new 30,000 seat stadium with luxury suites (of course). It's scheduled to open in 2011.
"If you look at America's great universities, you'll see that they all have the three A's in common: great academics, great arts and great athletics," said UNT [...]
It is hypothesized that college athletics bring interest from potential students. Some of the research I have been reviewing on sabbatical provides empirical support to this. If true, we should find a price effect (second paper). Donald Alexander and William Kern in the International Journal of Sports Finance.
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