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Sell-Out at the Sierra Club
By Jon Entine
Posted: Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The Clorox partnership fiasco demonstrates poor levels of transparency and weak corporate governance at the Sierra Club.
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Estimating Trends in U.S. Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey
The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
By Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once researchers controlled for top coding in the public use data and censoring in the internal data.
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Lieberman Would Be a Bad Veep Choice for McCain
By Henry Olsen
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
As Lincoln showed, a "war ticket" is not the formula for lasting success.
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Five Ways to Wreck a Recovery
By Amity Shlaes
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2008
Five non-monetary policy errors, from protectionism to higher taxes, prolonged the Great Depression--and they may prolong our current economic straits.
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The Strange Death of the Tory Climate Crusade
By Chris Pope, Matthew Sinclair
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008
Britain’s Conservative Party tried to exploit global warming alarmism and it backfired. Did they learn their lesson?
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A Question for McCain
By Edward Blum
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2008
John McCain gains nothing by embracing the same flawed civil rights vision as Barack Obama. Instead, he should advocate for colorblind policies.
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Europe Has an Economics Lesson for Obama
By Henry Olsen
Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama is visiting a Europe that, over the past decade, has very quietly embraced many market-based reforms.
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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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