Public Policy

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• Sunday Essay - What was it all for? part 2

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 131
  This post continues my review that I began in Train Reading - Don Aitkins What was it all for? 1 . Just a reminder that the book looks at social change in Australia over the last fifty years in part through the prism set by the Armidale High School Leaving Certificate class of 1953. It is men, rather than women, ...
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• A little more on CHOGM 2009

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 131
  Further to my post, The importance of the Commonwealth , it seems that Mr Rudd agrees with me. Australia will host the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). If the Australian reporting is correct, Mr Rudd appears to have played a significant role in the climate change outcome, chairing the ...
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• The Right Reform for the Fed

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 607
  Ben Bernanke has an editorial in the Washington Post that attempts to defend the Fed.  Here is my discussion of his editorial: These matters are complex, and Congress is still in the midst of considering how best to reform financial regulation. I am concerned, however, that a number of the legislative proposals ...
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• Book Review: Where Keynes Went Wrong

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 607
  When I was a grad student, I always felt weird about Keynes.  I grew up in a home that was not explicitly “free market” but was implicitly so.  My Dad was a small businessman and my Mom was a retail investor (as well as home manager).  My Dad’s business did well, but it had its share of hard times, including ...
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• WSJ – There’s Water on the Moon, But Who Owns It?

  
  62 Mile Club — Authority: 118
  From the Wall Street Journal Last week, NASA scientists discovered that the moon contains water, a “significant amount,” said Anthony Colaprete, who oversaw the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission. He said NASA found enough water to fill a dozen two-gallon buckets. Click here for the WSJ ...
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• The importance of the Commonwealth

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 131
  I have a post coming up later today completing my review of Don Aitkins book What was it all for? and so had no intention of posting. Then driving through the early morning light to take Clare to work, I listened to the BBC World Debate, this week on the question the Commonwealth at 60: does it have a future? The ...
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• RNC Conservatives’ 10 Key Public Policy Positions

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
  This is slightly older news, but there is a group of conservatives who serve on the Republican National Committee who indentified ten key policy positions they would like to see 2010 candidates who receive money from the RNC hold (they have to agree with at least seven), they are : (1) We support smaller ...
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• Would menu labels really help?

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 430
  We recently noted that amid the more than 2,000 pages of the healthcare reform bill being debated in Congress were provisions that would have chain restaurants post calorie counts on menus and call for vending machine companies to provide calorie counts near the items for sale. It seems like having calorie counts ...
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• FT; American spy and diplomat admired in Beijing

  
  A New Start — Authority: 121
  American spy and diplomat admired in Beijing By Jurek Martin Published: November 21 2009 00:58 | Last updated: November 21 2009 00:58 >> JimLilley was the quintessential American “China hand”. He was born there,spoke the language fluently from childhood, spied against China for theCIA and ultimately ...
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• Economist: Secret sauce

  
  A New Start — Authority: 121
  Economics focus Secret sauce Nov 12th 2009 From The Economist print edition China’s rapid growth is due not just to heavy investment, but also to the world’s fastest productivity gains PRODUCTIVITYgrowth is perhaps the single most important gauge of an economy’shealth. Nothing matters more for ...
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• Poll: Romney’s Favorables Among Republicans Drop Below 50 Percent

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  This is a surprising result from Public Policy Polling, the occasionally partisan group which nonetheless called the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races accurately. Mitt Romney’s favorable rating among Republican voters has fallen to 48 percent–a plurality, but a weak one. And the trend lines are even more ...
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• Saturday Morning Musings - Liberal implosion, the importance of the Commonwealth

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 131
  This week can best be described as a bloggers nightmare, just to much to write about! In Australia, the Liberal Party implosion over the Emissions Trading Scheme has understandably dominated news to the immense, almost unseemly, pleasure of Thomas on blog, Twitter and in Facebook. Thomas, a political tragic from ...
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• Chart of the Week: Obamas Economic Team Lacking Private Sector Experience?

  
  BNET Intercom — Authority: 423
  Youd think President Obama would turn to those with experience building businesses as he hired his economic team. But according to the chart below, less than 10 percent of Obamas economy-related Cabinet picks come from the private sector. And that seems well below historial norms.
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• Reforming the Three Stooges

  
  The Cost of Energy — Authority: 470
  China Announces Emissions Reduction Targets (But They’re Not Really Reductions) : TreeHugger : Well, everyone has their cards on the table now. Following the US’s announcement yesterday that it will bring an emissions reductions target “in the range” of 17 percent of 2005 levels to Copenhagen, China has ...
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• Viviane Reding no longer EU telecoms commissioner

  
  MuniWireless — Authority: 497
  I’m afraid the news is good and bad. Viviane Reding, proponent of structural separation, enemy of the incumbent telco and EU telecoms commissioner for many years, has been promoted to vice-president of the European Commission and the head of justice and internal security. Neelie Kroes, who has been the EU’s ...
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• Tobin Tax?

  
  shareholdersunite.com — Authority: 144
  An idea who’se time has come…Reasonable pro-market economist like Turner Adair and Paul Krugman are pleading in favour. People who worry about big deficits should also be pleased as this is an easy way to plug some of the gaps in public finances. What are actually the disadvantages?Taxing the Speculators By PAUL ...
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• Japanese public debt is approaching 200% of GDP

  
  shareholdersunite.com — Authority: 144
  Compared to that, American’s public debt is just one quarter as big. So Japan should be doomed, right? And all that money creation that accompanies it should have long ago leashed vicious inflation, right? Well…As a matter of fact, it’s deflation, rather than inflation which is the real concern..Japan is not yet ...
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• Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part IV

  
  MandM — Authority: 128
  In my last posts, beginning Religious Restraint and Public Policy: Part I ,  I set out the doctrine of religious restraint and critiqued some of the key arguments in support of it. I looked at the objection that the argument from respect is too thin, that applied consistently it excludes too much and Audi’s ...
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• Mass. healthcare undermines Romneys GOP support (Romneycare a mini version of Obamacare)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  A new poll shows that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now has a less than 50 percent favorability rating among Republican voters. Public Policy Polling has released its monthly 2012 survey, which finds that while 65 percent of Republicans have a favorable opinion of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and ...
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• More Federal Money for Historic Preservation Exists, Needs to be Appropriated

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 127
  In 1976, the U.S. Congress created the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). Funded by offshore oil leases, the $150 million fund is supposed to be available for matching grants to state and territorial historic preservation offices, tribal historic preservation offices, historically black colleges and universities and ...
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