…administration’s newly announced rules regarding bidding for future reconstruction contracts, we can be sure that the winners of future contracts to rebuild Iraq will also face less competition, charge higher…
You searched for: label/winners and losers
…parody site like whitehouse.org. However, Not Geniuses and Pandagon failed to mention the prize the winners receive: authoring the next Biology textbook for the great state of Texas. AB UPDATE:…
The Efficient Racing Hypothesis
…gambling on racing? Not according to Professor Mo. “While it is impossible to pick a race’s winners, or even how well any given driver will do in any given race…
Insurers “Had a Seat at the Table” when Reformers Hammered Out the ACA, but Things Didn’t Work Out Quite As They Expected . . . –
…2010, I wrote that under Obamacare, for-profit insurers would not be big winners. Quite the opposite. How the Insurance Industry Mis-Calculated Okay, maybe investors and reporters did not read the…
Speaking of Jimmy Carter and Energy
…industry’s development of it. It wasn’t about “picking winners,” but fostering them. By reducing the cost of early-stage research, the government made it easier for Mitchell to make the technology…
Is natural gas the next ethanol?
…would dampen the negative impacts of the natural gas revolution. It’s a pity that we’re ignoring these virtues in favor of picking winners in the (losing) race to a low-carbon…
Martin Wolf’s Warning
…of the consequences of globalization. (Previous winners can be found here.) The financial turmoil of the last week makes this year’s award-winner particularly appropriate: Martin Wolf for The Shifts and…
Magical Thinking and the Paranoid Style
…“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” My inbox was recently graced with an e-mail that informed that a number of recent lotto winners were…
The Continuing Dominance of the Dollar: A Review of Cohen’s “Currency Power”
…Previous winners can be found hereand here. The winner of this year’s award is Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry by Benjamin J. Cohen of the University of California: Santa Barbara….
FOLLOW-UP TO: “Instead of nominating Marco Rubio, the Republicans should just cut out the pretense and nominate his doppelgänger: Charlie McCarthy”
…who memorize their carefully crafted lines and hit their marks are seen as the “winners.” But it’s also true that we saw two very different Marco Rubios last night. The…
