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Daniel Davies’s Three Laws Summarized

…Unfortunately, due to a continuing power outage – also caused by Hurricane Gustav – the DOE is unable to pump oil from storage. Disruptions serious enough to be “economically threatening,”…

Job Piracy Marches on in Alabama

…gain new blood. Instead we spill blood, as competition for existing businesses in the region pits city against city. It happens all the time. Birmingham commits millions to steal a…

Agribusiness, Food, Vegetarianism—-and Taxes

…resources consolidation results in long transportation (inhumane to animals; wasteful of oil and gas resources) the subsidies (including some tax expenditures) for agriculture have gotten out of control–costly, misdirected, ill-conceived,…

A Quick One: Inflationary Credit Recession Strategies

…that financial disruptions could spill over to the broader economy,” he said. As the economy and markets improve “it will be necessary for the Federal Reserve to remove the policy…

Progress on right to know about sewerage!!

…support of H.R. 2452 by telling a scary story about a sewage spill that went on for two years before anyone realized what was going on (and after 4.8 million…