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Money and water

http://www.waterworld.com/articles/wwi/print/volume-27/issue-6/editorial-focus/utility-management/money-makes-the-water-world-go.html…

Fire in Australia is about water

OSO and the fires in Australia. He does not live in the area in the news. quote: “…it is also possible that weather conditions were so severe and so unique…

What’s in the Water in Chicago ?

Robert Waldmann Gary Becker writes (via Lane Kenworthy who is strangely polite in response) As Posner and others have indicated, there appears to have been a huge conversion of economists…

Fixing Monopolistic Utilities

…subjecting “business lines” to competition (as the USPS was forced to do with packages and water utilities are involuntarily experiencing with bottled water). A third way would force the monopoly…

You Can Lead a Horse’s Arse to Water, but…

You can’t make him think—or own to loan. Krugman notes: [L]ast week Joe Nocera of The Times pointed out a key weakness in the U.S. Treasury’s bank rescue plan: it…

Wal-Mart and Disaster Supplies

…of water around the country every day and they each have contracts similar to the one Wal-Mart has with bottled water manufacturers . Compared to this total national supply the…