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Rolling the DICE: William Nordhaus's dubious case for a carbon tax 

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to AI Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the public's growing awareness...

A 3% Flat Tax Would Prevent Future California Budget Crisis 

At long last Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed the budget but Califomians may want to hold off on any celebration. The blockbuster $84.6...

Government Must Keep Track of Derivatives? It Just Ain't So! 

In a surprising Wall Street Journal op-ed (www.tinyurl.com/cj6jge), property-rights advo- cate Hernando de Soto writes that our current financial...

Oil Prices Are Rigged? It Just Ain't So! 

Even though oil prices have fallen and quieted the price-conspiracy mongers, you can bet that when prices go up again, they will be back in force....

Detection of Protein-Protein Interactions Through Vesicle Targeting 

ABSTRACT The detection of protein-protein interactions through two-hybrid assays has revolutionized our understanding of biology. The remarkable...

Prosomal-width-to-weight relationships in American horseshoe crabs : examining conversion factors used to estimate landings 

Abstract--Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are valued by many stakeholders, including the commercial fishing industry, biomedical companies,...

Did Deregulated Derivatives Cause the Financial Crisis? 

For a few months in 2008 I naively thought that the disastrous financial "rescue" actions led by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would at least be...

Unchained State 

Unchained State "Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush," by Thomas Woods and Kevin Gutzman....

Nationalization of the Mortgage Market, The 

On Sunday, September 7, the United States government took control of more than half the U.S. mortgage market, through its seizure-and that is the...

Out of Iraq by summer ... then off to fight Taliban 

A WITHDRAWAL of troops from Iraq was confirmed today, immediately fuelling speculation that more will be sent to Afghanistan.

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