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Bonus pay rewards WAMU execs for 2007 performance

…net operating profit, weighted at 30%, calculated as operating profit before income taxes and excluding the effects of (i) loan loss provisions other than related to our credit card business…

Absolute proof or preponderance of evidence?

…the study. Genomic tools may identify effects of other chemicals by allowing scientists to “go fishing,” as Silbergeld puts it, for things they did not know to look for. ……

On the Deterrence Value of the Death Penalty

…in the United States and Canada, and within the United States, between executing and non-executing states. We analyze the effects of the judicial experiments provided by the Furman and Gregg…

Tax Policy, GDP Growth, and the Deficit

…Once one adjusts for business cycle effects, the effect of neither the Bush43 nor the Reagan fiscal stimulus on long-term growth does not appear to be as rosy as the…

Tyler Cowen Asks if Savings are Overrated

…the estimates of long-term productivity growth have risen roughly a full percentage point over the past decade. The effects of technology more than swamp the effects of savings. If Mandel…