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• Why Amazon customers shouldn’t have to pay a cent of sale taxes on e-books

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Attention, Amazon shoppers—and BN.com fans, too, as well as those at other Internet stores selling e-books and more! Randall Stross , the New York Times columnist, wants you to pay sales taxes on Net purchases no matter where you live, at least if you’re in the U.S., where he says Amazon collects for just ...
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• Economics and the environment: Down to earth index

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  How much is the planet worth? Not a jot, according to most economists calculations . Last week, politicians and City analysts got Tiggerishly excited over an official report showing that Britains economy shrank 0.2% in the three months to the end of September rather than the 0.4% initially reported. Yet that ...
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• David Cameron makes direct appeal to Liberal Democrat voters

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  David Cameron has made a direct appeal to Liberal Democrat supporters to recognise differences between their parties are now "a lot less than in the past". His remarks, made in his new year message, have the twin purpose of appealing to Liberal Democrats to vote tactically against Labour, and even to hint he is ...
  17 hours ago

• China, the United States, and 20 million zombies (2)

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  We can almost hear you say: Even if we assume that Wall Street was looking for a deep pool of cheap docile labor, China was the last place on the planet that might come to mind. It’s communist, for god’s sake! With a history of internal violence, and conflict with the three major nations on [...]
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• China, the United States, and 20 million zombies

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  The relationship between these two big guns of global market has been covered by many writers, and, inevitably, their examination boils down to one of two classes of observations:Buyer and Seller: This is a simple, straightforward relation: China sells us 42 inch high definition wide screen plasma televisions; we sell ...
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• A tale of two cities: Chinese labor market performance in 2009 and reform priority in 2010

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 525
  Author: Cai Fang, CASS At the beginning of 2009 the global financial crisis struck hard at the real economy of China. While the whole country suffered, not all regions suffered equally. Looking at two industrial cities on which the crisis had a very different impact helps to explain the reasons for the uneven effect ...
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• Where Thinking Goes to Tank

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 473
  From THE HUFFINGTON POST : The George W. Bush Institute — the “action- oriented think tank” that is part of Bush’s Presidential Center — will co-produce a public television show hosted by its executive director, Ambassador James Glassman, in a rare convergence of public broadcasting and a partisan ...
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• Capricious prediction of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  The Public Option in healthcare is going to look like the public option in mortgages. Thats right, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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• Reining in executive pay | Michael Meacher

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The top pay commission is a paper tiger and offers no real solution to runaway executive salaries. More force is needed The House of Commons public administration select committee has just called for a top pay commission as a solution to the outrage of runaway pay at the top. It would certainly help, but its no ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• University funding: Shape of cuts to come

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  When Lord Mandelson quietly announced cuts of 6.6% in the higher education budget for 2010‑11 this week, he did two extremely important things simultaneously. The first was to throw more than 10 years of steady university expansion under Labour, one of the signature policies of the Blair-Brown era, into sudden ...
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• A Different Kind of Toy Story

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 626
  Our local newspaper ran a feature on childrens letters to Santa, some of which were reproduced as photos showing beginning penmanship and spelling, with many others presented solely in text. They were touching, amusing, and sometimes sad. Sad because one telling way to corroborate that the United States has the ...
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• Escalating War in Afghanistan Apt to Hurt Fragile U.S. Economy

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 626
  If Iraq war spending helped plunge the U.S. economy into its worst slump since the Depression, what does President Obama think his escalation of the Afghan war will do it? Besides forcing taxpayers to cough up fresh billions to enable the Pentagon to chase down a few hundred Taliban fighters, the Afghan war is liable ...
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• A Healthy Economy

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 626
  "This amendment starts from the premise that health care is a human right, and that every citizen, rich or poor, should have access to health care, just as every citizen has access to the fire department, the police or public schools." And for a moment last week the fog of jargon and compromise lifted on the Senate ...
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• Australia avoids the crisis, by luck and good management

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 525
  Author: Ian Buchanan, Crawford School, ANU Australia has emerged as the world’s strongest performing advanced economy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. While the US unemployment rate is the highest it has been since 1983, at 10.2 per cent, the latest forecasts from the Australian Treasury have ...
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• Is your economy picking up? | Open thread

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Unemployment may have fallen, but Britain is still in a deep recession – are there signs of economic recovery in your life? The grim economic news this week was that Britain is still in recession – alone among the G20 nations – with third-quarter data showing the economy had shrunk by a further 0.2%, making ...
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• Where are our defence economists?

  
  The Acorn — Authority: 568
  Defence budgeting would do well with more economic reasoning One of the topics discussed at the Takshashila Executive Programme on Strategic Affair s in New Delhi earlier this month was the issue of defence budgeting. Mukul Asher and Sushant K Singh have an op-ed in DNA today that covers one aspect of it—the need ...
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• The Miser versus the Entrepreneur

  
  AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online — Authority: 651
  Why is Ayn Rand so popular today?
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• Health Reform Employment Mandate

  
  Moonage Political Webdream — Authority: 469
  OK, Paul Krugman thinks this bill is far from perfect, but is a huge step in the right direction.  He’s an economist.  He should know.  I’m not an economist.  I’m an employer.  Different view of things obviously.  Here’s what I see: The Senate health care bill includes a well-known “employer ...
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• Throwing in the towel…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  With today’s revision of third quarter GDP, from 3.5 percent growth to 2.2 percent, it is clear that we were right: What failed in 2008 was not simply the five biggest investment houses on Wall Street, but the actual Rube Goldberg mechanism that is the American Dollar Empire itself.First, with Krugman, DeLong, and ...
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