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Proposed income cap for those trading in “clunkers”

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One of the amendments proposed to the addition of $2 billion to the “cash for clunkers” program is a cap on the income of those benefiting...
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Ron Paul doesn’t like “Cash for Clunkers”

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Ron Paul claims that the popular “cash for clunkers” program, which gives people a several thousand dollar credit toward buying a new,...
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Judge rules against BU student in illegal downloading case

Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston University graduate student accused of illegal downloading and sharing of music by the recording industry, now faces up to...
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Boston University student goes up against the recording industry

A Boston University graduate student is going to trial against the recording industry after four major record labels have accused him of illegal...
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A brief lesson in economics for Sarah Palin

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On July 14, Sarah Palin added her two cents to the cap-and-trade debate in the Washington Post. In an expected turn of events, she opposes it. The...
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The trade-off of drug exclusivity: biotech seeks protection from competition

The biotech lobby has scored a major success on July 13 when the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee gave biotech companies 12 year...
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Subsidizing babies: welfare or investment?

Across the Western world, people are not having enough babies, and old people are staying old longer. This is a simple summary of the problem of...
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Carbon reductions for the rich

A new study, explained in this article, suggests basing countries’ carbon emission reduction targets on the number of rich people the country...
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An economic review of Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. is a recent documentary criticizing the industrial mass-production of food and the practices of the few corporations that dominate this...
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Strategic foreclosures: defaulting when you can pay

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A new study, detailed in this blog on the Wall Street Journal, finds that one out of four defaults on mortgages is “strategic” - meaning...
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