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Farm income

Here at Sustainability Institute, we develop computer simulation models to investigate such issues. Over the past couple of years we’ve worked with economists and farm leaders to model the corn…

Econobloggers

The Milken Institute had a conference that included Professor Mark Thoma of Economist’s View, Felix Salmon of Market Movers, Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism, and Paul Kedrosky of Infectious Greed….

Climate control issues

Alternet, a leftist blog, carries this interview with Dr. Jansen, head of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA’s premiere climate research center. So might that make it slightly left of…

Student loans

The Project on Student Debt at The Institute of College Access and Success (ticas.org) reports: The current credit crunch has students and parents concerned about whether they will be able…

Generic drugs Part 1

…requirements. Also see this 1999 Food and Drug Law Institute overview of the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.) In one study (Borgheini 2003), a full 31% variation was found in the…

Strategic Outreach Non-profit

SOFAR: Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists The Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England (PCFINE), with the support of other psychoanalytic groups throughout the country, has launched…

Fact checking the President on SCHIP

…in covering children in families with incomes up to $83,000 per year, which isn’t true. The Urban Institute estimated that 70 percent of children who would gain coverage are in…

Chickens and the eggs…a parable or paradox?

The Cato Institute’s James Bovard in 1995 had thoughts on private versus public monies. ADM’s finagling in Washington may have cost taxpayers and consumers more than $40 billion since 1980,…

The other side of the coin in Iraq

Reporters at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting offer insight into local political and military conditions in Basra. Reporting appears to dovetail with Cactus’s post. The concrete walls that…

The Bush Economy by Karl Rove

While Mark Thoma has a few words about the partisan garbage Karl Rove delivered to the American Enterprise Institute, let me start here: The economy itself began slowing in the…