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Municipal Finance and Depression

…National Airports…. [other examples omitted] The only alternative would be what New York City did on Monday: Go into the locked-up markets and whip up demand by offering to pay…

How Not to Build a Bailout Proposal

…burden on future taxpayers. The $100 billion in tax breaks, which offer incentives for the use of renewable energy and relieve 24 million households from an estimated $65 billion alternative-minimum…

Champaign Bottle corks are popping today

…value of the banks will soar. There is, however, an alternative explanation for Wall Street’s celebration: the banks realized that they were about to get a free ride at taxpayers’…

Andrew Sullivan says focus on McCain

…United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain – no…

The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond

…stood up before the astonished official, who had no apparent alternative but to follow him as he passed swiftly across the cate. Some vivacious and talkative young men were taking…

Not Just Developing Countries

…produce a better crop yield and therefore marginally more calories available to babies. So the alternative hypothesis should be that rainy seasons produce healthier children, as reflected in schooling accomplishments…

First lesson in econ for kids….scarcity

…to fulfill those wants and needs. Alternatively, scarcity implies that not all of society’s goals can be pursued at the same time; trade-offs are made of one good against others….