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The Miasma School of Economics

…— basically bad air emanating from smelly, unsanitary conditions, especially in poor areas with lots of leaking, overflowing basement cesspools full of shit. These were contaminating the water supply, of…

Measuring GDP Growth

…a weighted average of lots of prices, including E1AIT1 (*.xls warning) Air transportation E1AIT1 PPI Domestic scheduled passenger air transportation The airline industry may have made an average contribution to…

No, Again, To F-35 Alt-Engine

by reader Ilsm “No, Again, To F-35 Alt-Engine: Schwartz”, John Reed, DefenseNews.com August 4, 2010 The U.S. Air Force’s top general reaffirmed his opposition to the GE-Rolls Royce’s alternative engine…

Procurement of big ticket items

Follow up to the US military ‘procurement and research’ increases post: $25 billion for the first new aircraft carrier, $9 billion for per for another one or two each. Aircraft