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Barter part 1

…be unsettling to orderly markets if other raw materials, such as rubber or rare metals, even energy, were moved around in a series of large off-market deals with no formal…

Guantanamo release

…Leon ordered the government to release five Guantánamo Bay detainees “forthwith.” Finding that the government failed to prove the men were “enemy combatants,” the judge, in a rare comment, urged…

USA a Center Left Nation

…think what is needed is for conservatives with integrity (not as rare as flying pigs) to attempt a counter-report following the outline of the media matters report, but picking different…

Cost comparison for an OEM in US and China

…savings overall not put in perspective, “lean manufacturing’ limitations, and precision ordering and inventory control limitations around transport and container issues (as an example)are discussed. It’s rare to see an…

Election Story Interlude

…Admirals in service. Really rare creatures, those. This one? Retired last month. And he’s spending his weekends working on the GOTV effort in rural Virginia. But I guess retired Admirals…

Taxpayer subsidies for roads etc. vs. public transport

…private buiding. It’s very rare that municipal bonds pay for transit but it does happen–we recently passed prop 1b which included transit capital funds. But even there, 70% went to…

Non-Adiabatic Economics

…will have a relatively short tenure. Traditional owners (say the Ford family for Ford Motors) are becoming increasingly rare. Most “owners” are now stockholders who tend not to have any…

State of the Art for propranolol research

…the [emotional] intensity of traumatic memories by giving people propranolol for the first 10 days or so after an accident.” But Altemus also pointed out that PTSD is rather rare,…

Consumer credit default and spending change

…be experiencing a rare decline in personal consumption, not just a slower rate of growth. Such a decline would be the first since 1991, and it would almost certainly push…