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The water data hub is LIVE!

…— hopefully — to pressure them to release it to the public. WDH 1.2: Anyone can comment on the quality of data sources held elsewhere; this will help everyone understand

Making the United States More Like Greece

…– completely undermining its credibility under pressure and making it much harder to turn the fiscal and economic situation around. … In the modern United States, cutting taxes leads to…

Refinancing bad for business?

pressure on DeMarco. I also look forward to testimony by the Freddie Mac CEO Charles Haldeman who I expect will have considerable trouble recalling details (see HR Block). Here is…

Freddie Mac Attack

…is a hint that someone in the White House has decided to put pressure on DeMarco. I also look forward to testimony by the Freddie Mac CEO Charles Haldeman who…

A boom in shale gas? Credit the feds.

…markets and short-term pressure to produce profits. No doubt, government energy innovation investments could be made more efficiently and effectively. But it would be a mistake to imagine that we’d…