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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…

Construction Employment in the Inland Empire

…a decline in overall market activity – slowing of total unit sales and build up of inventories. When inventories rise and sales start to fall this will spill over into…

Inflation Watch

…more general inflation problem in the US? Not necessarily. The problem is that a high overall inflation rate due to energy costs could very easily spill over into a higher…

Inflation Update

…surge in oil prices have still caused fairly large year-over-year price changes in recent months, as the picture below shows. I’d like to see the core rate of 12-month CPI…

…and Short’s allegations, Blair told reporters: “We are going to be in a very dangerous situation as a country if people feel they can simply spill out secrets or details…