Tag: economics
member name: Steve Petersen
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January 05, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
Two influential men -- one an economist, the other a thoughtful journalist -- chimed in on the current plight of the American middle class this week, and they took different stances.
Donald J. Boudreaux, . . .
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April 12, 2006 12:26 AM EDT --
Illegal immigrants don't always keep native and legal American citizens from finding jobs. The proof is in the data.
As I was reading an interesting article today about how Utah's economic . . .
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May 02, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
As the intensity over immigration reform increases as members of Congress battle each other over various strategies to address the burgeoning illegal immigrant population and as thousands of people flood . . .
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August 16, 2006 02:52 AM EDT --
On yesterday's show of the BBC World Service's World Have Your Say about multiculturalism and extremism, the discussion about how the United States is much more of a melting pot than other countries . . .
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May 15, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
Like many media pundits, staunch conservatives, Mexican governmental officials, and illegal immigrants, I was disappointed in President Bush's speech tonight about immigration reform. Part of . . .
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May 24, 2006 02:30 PM EDT --
I found President Vicente's Fox address to the Utah Legislature on Wednesday interesting. It appears to me that he had four main objectives.
First, Mexico has made a lot of economic, . . .
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October 06, 2006 01:06 AM EDT --
This is how you can get your two cents worth and really make it count.
I stumbled upon a really cool microcredit loan site via Cisco's The Human Network today -- Kiva. This site connects third world . . .
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January 17, 2007 11:22 PM EST --
The World Economic Forum is responding to the surge of on-line communication trends by allowing normal folk to submit Internet video questions to world leaders attending its conference (aka "Davos") . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
Note: I titled this article in the sensational style of Fox News' "Have/Has ___ declared on America?" model punctuated by a question mark... umm, I mean a "Cavuto" as Jon Stewart . . .
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March 19, 2006 10:39 PM EST --
Rioting in France, c'est la vie! This week is definitely not the first time that French youth have used violence to protest what they perceive as unjust. Currently, they are upset about how the French . . .
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April 10, 2006 12:31 AM EDT --
For links to existing information (or predictive) markets and other sources of information scroll down to the bottom of this article.
I just read James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds in which he . . .
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April 18, 2006 10:14 PM EDT --
From Wikipedia's entry for Prediction Market: "Also known as information markets, decision markets, idea futures, and virtual markets, prediction markets are speculative (i.e., betting) markets . . .
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May 09, 2006 02:03 AM EDT --
Liz Pulliam Weston wrote an interesting commentary piece for MSN's Money Central on Monday titled, "The truth about credit card debt." She refuted the prevailing knowledge that most . . .
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April 14, 2006 12:40 AM EDT --
Newsweek's Karen Lowry Miller wonders if the above average productivity growth rates that the United States has enjoyed over the last several years will wane – returning to normal rates of growth. . . .
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April 27, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
As oil prices are rising and the United States trade debt remains high, many news organizations, like NPR, are surveying the precarious situation that the United States finds itself in now.
One of the . . .
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March 22, 2006 12:31 AM EST --
In <span style="">Nicomachean Ethics</span> Aristotle addresses the excesses of courage – recklessness and cowardliness, and this enables us to see that contemporary American . . .
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