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Innovation, statistics, and truth

…gardasil vaccine is innovative and has been approved of course, but the immense pressure to get to market before a rival company predisposes companies to push increasingly more quickly and…

Antigua update Part I WTO GATS

…China has resisted US pressure to respect intellectual property rights, so the ‘moral high ground’ is in danger for the US on the symbolic level at least. 2) The testing…

A Milestone, of Sorts

…Yield on 10-year note climbs above 5% NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices were under pressure Thursday, pushing the 10-year yield above 5% for the first time in nearly four…

Michael Darda’s Fiscal Advice for the FED

…a prerequisite for ascending to the U.S. Senate. As Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell recently argued, an appreciation of the yuan could impose deflationary pressures on the Chinese economy, fan tensions…

Pat Roberts: FISA Flip-flopping

…Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller said the decision was influenced by the Bush administration. “It is … more than apparent to me that the White House has applied heavy pressure in…

Capital Flows into the US

…the pressure on the dollar (as measured by how many of them foreign central banks are being forced to buy) has diminished substantially this year. For whatever reason, it seems…

Times v. Post

…inflating the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons programs, but stopped short of ascribing the problems to political pressures. No mention of the fact that many of Bush’s statements yesterday were…

Wrong Decisions

…[uhhh….] — I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer,…