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Pension Fund Politics: Do Union "Social Investing" Schemes Benefit Their Workers?
By Jon Entine
Posted: Friday, July 18, 2008
Pension funds are being dragged into treacherous waters where political and moral views threaten clear financial mandates.
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The Taxation of Carried Interests in Private Equity
By David Weisbach
Posted: Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Attempts to tax carried interests as service income will have to be able to distinguish service income from other types of income, a task that has proven to be difficult and complex.
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Wal-Mart: Ethical Retailing
From Evil Empire to Jolly Green Giant
By Jon Entine
Posted: Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The "green prism" through which Wal-Mart now views all of its products and operations is forcing critics to see the retail giant in a new light.
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Shooting Uncle Sam in the Foot
By Aparna Mathur
Posted: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Few additional workers would actually be eligible for extended unemployment benefits, and the incentives created by extending them could do long-term harm to the economy.
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America's Economic Outlook: A Symposium
By Desmond Lachman, John H. Makin, John L. Chapman
Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008
Will the U.S. economy improve or worsen between now and Election Day in November?
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Colleges Should Go Beyond the Rhetoric of Accountability
By Richard Vedder
Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008
If colleges are worried about the accountability called for by the Spellings Report, they have not seen the worst of it.
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Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS
By Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, R. Jason Faberman, Ian Rucker
Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey is an innovative data program that presents measurement issues that are imperfectly understood.
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The Supreme Court Goes to War
By John Yoo
Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The only hope for reining in the judiciary is the November election.
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Why Small Is Not Always Sustainable
By Jon Entine
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2008
The idealization of small-scale farms threatens to turn the clock back on farming modernization in the places that need it most.
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How Green Hysteria Will Hit Home
By Jon Entine
Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008
If the "progressives" get their way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it will be ordinary Americans who suffer.
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