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The Rule of Capture and Legalized Theft

…some noxious liquids under ground at high pressure to break the seams in which gas or oil are trapped in order to facilitate the flow of oil and gas. And…

Tubes !

…way to ameliorate global warming other than reducing emissions is bad, because it wil reduce pressure for reduced emissions. No one feels obliged to paint their roof black to increase…

Vanilla

pressure. The industry would also lobby for very elaborate certification requirements for vanilla products, and that banks should pay their own certification costs, to create a barriers that would help…

Why Is The Placebo Effect Getting Stronger ?

…given the placebo might be the disappearance of this bias. Increased pressure to find severely depressed patients (do the the fact that anti depressants work better compared to placebo with…

Time to move beyond "Nothing" on Social Security?

…Commission would fix not only all entitlement programs but also “reorient government spending programs and tax preferences.” And it would do so “free of the pressure and influence of interest…

Going into Shock

…goal through restoring and maintaining the blood circulating volume ensuring oxygenation and blood pressure are adequate, achieving and maintaining effective cardiac function, and preventing complications…. (Sounds a bit like a…

More on Industrial Production

…manufacturing profits are under severe downward pressure. So it is not just financial write offs that are causing estimates of S&P 500 earnings to be revised down sharply and firms…