Gephardt’s Revolution Begins with a Global Minimum Wage (La Times and many other sources ): What at first appears to be a case of extreme economic ignorance might as well be a plot to dis -employ all workers of the world who are not members of the labor unions he expects to fund his presidential campaign.
Adel Al-Jubeir is precisely right. From CNN : “Saudi Arabia on Sunday blamed record high U.S. gasoline prices on America’s tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity, saying OPEC’s oil production policies were not to
File sharing has zero effect on recorded music sales, say Felix Oberholzer-Gee of the Harvard Business School and Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the story
In his “State of the State” speech to the California legislature in 2001, then-Governor Gray Davis demanded that lawmakers there make “withholding of electricity” a criminal offense. At the time, California was in the throes of an electricity crisis, made so by its own policies, but Davis, along with Paul Krugman and others chose to blame
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