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Here’s what’s missing from reports that “[t]he FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy” by a 3-2 vote: That the three who voted for the Rule are Democrats and that the two who voted against it are Republicans. And that the president’s party gets the majority of board members, from which the chairman is selected.

…today is Washington Post reporter Rosalind Helderman’s report on a 13-page memo from 2011 by Clinton Foundation and “Bill Clinton Inc.” impresario Douglas Band (the term “Bill Clinton Inc.” is…

Top Marginal tax rate of 70% ?

…production cobb douglass. Reduction of labor supply by the super-rich reduces GDP by their wage. It also causes the wage of the rich to go up and the wage of…

SKG responds to post on privatizing cities

…few other nearby counties. (The Metro Atlanta area is now composed of 28 counties throughout much of north Georgia, and Gwinnett and Cobb, the 2nd and 4th largest in the…

Another tipping point for global trade patterns?

by rdan Hat tip to reader Henry Cobb. Yahoo news has an article on new directions for globalization: In an effort to cut costs Steiff began outsourcing production to Chinese…