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More Cautionary Stuff from Generals

Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC, (Ret.) Remarks at CDI Board of Directors Dinner, May 12, 2004And what I thought I would do tonight is go through the ten crucial mistakes to this point that we've made....

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Tags: rumsfeld
Taxes and the Private Sector, Part 2 Would You Like Some Lags with That?

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....

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Crowding Out, Social Security, and the Military Industrial Complex

by Bruce WebbIn the course of an exchange between me and a fellow Bear, the question arose if social spending had a crowding out effect on other social spending. In particular if we have a small...

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Tags: social security, federal spending
Open thread Nov. 29, 2009 (with GW)

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Open thread Nov. 28, 2009 (no GW)

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Welfare vs Social Insurance in the USA

Robert WaldmannAmong experts, there is a widespread view that people in the USA support social insurance an oppose welfare. It is a fact that they support social security old age and disability...

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Tags: welfare, social insurance, public perceptions
Dubai's work force...a side note on current events

Rdan 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...

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Inflation Detour II: Crisis and Recovery across Great "Fluctuations"

We are now almost 24 months into the Great Recession. While many expect NBER will eventually say that The Great Recession ended several months ago, they have not yet.By contrast, the recession that...

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Tags: bernanke, unemployment, tim geithner, solvency crisis, great depression
The Great Trade Collapse...VoxEU

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...

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Tags: world trade, trade imbalances, trade deficits
Happy Thanks giving

Have a good Thanksgiving folks. From all the Bears

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