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"Despite"? Did they mean "Because"?

…in the Netherlands, which has more liberal drug policies than the U.S., only 1.9% of people reported cocaine use and 19.8% reported marijuana use. […] From the report: “Legal and…

Did Part D Work?

…will respond to me, and I may not know if they can provide the other policies I need (home, life, etc.), so there may be minor externalities (e.g., having to…

Data in, data out

…agencies have security policies on the books and written in contracts with outside vendors. But those policies often didn’t go far enough to properly oversee the work of those contractors,…

Free trade, Republican’s no like (along with others)

…competition. A majority of Americans would support the following proposed policies aimed at helping workers who have lost their jobs to foreign competition and outsourcing: Policies with the greatest amount…

THE GREAT MODERATION

…mechanism of creating sufficient excess capacity in the economy—a form of Phillip Curve analysis . Second, in contrast to supply-side policies Keynesian demand management worked to generate too strong an…

…in the 1980s or in recent years. However, these results are exactly the opposite of what the advocates of supply-side economics or republican trickle-down policies have promised. Maybe the simple…