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In Environmental Economics - Posted 2 years ago

It's nice to see Congress finally coming around to something so many of us have known for years: subsidies to ethanol were a waste of money. I par...

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What he said

In Environmental Economics - Posted 2 years ago

It's nice to see Congress finally coming around to something so many of us have known for years: subsidies to ethanol were a waste of money. I par...

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Bipolar Bipartisanship Kills Climate Panel

In Triple Pundit - Posted 2 years ago

Heads in the sand, or more properly, in the ozone. Choking off the House climate change committee is not a big surprise but depressing in its implicat...

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Resolving Uncertainty About Future Growth

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Christina Romer:It's the Big Questions That Slow Growth, by Christina Romer, Commentary, NY Times: Uncertainty is frequently blamed for the sorry st...

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The Employment Report

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

This is not the report we've been waiting for. Unemlpoyment has risen from 9.6 percent to 9.8 percent, and job growth is very low:The unemployment ra...

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Will Oil Prices Rescue Ethanol?

In Energy Outlook - Posted 2 years ago

Time is running out for the ethanol blenders credit and the matching ethanol import tariff, which at least one industry publication suggests are likel...

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Defense Bill Includes Secretive Contractor Blacklist

In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 2 years ago

One of the bills that's still likely to come up in the lame duck session is the 2011 Defense Authorization Act. It includes the Don't Ask, Don't T...

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Paul Krugman: Freezing Out Hope

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Obama is wasting his political capital on unreciprocated, counterproductive bipartisan gestures:Freezing Out Hope, by Pau Krugman, Commentary, NY Tim...

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Senate GOP Pledges to Block All Bills Until Tax Cuts are Extended for All

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Republicans have decided to block all bills unless they get their way over extending tax cuts for the wealthy: Senate GOP pledges to block all bills ...

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Congress Pries Open the Fed -- Audit Report Drops Today

In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 2 years ago

The graphic above shows the explosion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet during the financial crisis (interactive version here). What you see hap...

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