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• in Politics
  Will Wind Energy Be The First Casualty of The Fiscal Cliff?
  Will Congress preserve the subsidies that have been the lifeblood of the wind industry for two decades?
  by energizeme / on Nov 20, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “subsidies”

 

• How clean is the air we breathe in cities?

  
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  A boy peers out a bus window in Mumbai, India. Photo by gregor_y. More and more cities worldwide are grappling with the ever-increasing menace of air pollution — especially in India, which contains some of the most polluted cities in the world. Rapid economic growth in developing countries and increased ...
  3 days ago

• Anything but water

  
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  One year without internet ... reveals that we socialize and think differently without it, for better or worse. Also read Bruce Sterling (the original cyberpunk) on the internets future . A good article on adaptation to climate change . I added a tag for adaptation to many posts, but that may be redundant -- ...
  4 days ago

• Bloody foreigners! Coming over here, taking our... subsidies!

  
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  MBK emailed me a fine article in The Soaraway Sun blasting the "Help to buy" land price subsidy scheme. Not because it is a lunatic risky use of taxpayers money that will merely push up land prices and burden people with much larger debts, no sirree... FOREIGNERS can cash in on a taxpayer-funded scheme to help ...
  5 days ago

• Mursi’s Tragicomedy

  
  The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine — Authority: 536
  Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi fluffed his lines during a speech at the Koerber foundation in Berlin. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images Whoever became Egypt’s first Arab Spring president would have faced almost insurmountable challenges in realizing a stable and successful transition. Egypt’s uprising emerged from ...
  1 week ago

• Maine governor: So, can we back off on all of these wind initiatives yet?

  
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  Its time. Over the past few years, along with the huge raft of federal support the wind industry receives via tax credits, payouts, regulations, and initiatives, it’s also been all the rage for states to set up their own wind-friendly subsidies and renewable portfolio standards to help out the wind industry so ...
  1 week ago

• Wenonah Hauter – Reject The Foodopoly And Eat Healthy

  
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  from  Financial Survival Network Wenonah Hauter  grew up on a farm. She experienced the economics of food and says that our current system has been corrupted by big AgriBiz. Her solution is rest on education and ending corporate control of the government. This means ending their ability to make campaign ...
  1 week ago

• The Evolving Role of the Banking Systems in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

  
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  By Reza Moghadam What has been the role of foreign banks in financing growth and convergence in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and how is that role changing? This is discussed in the first issue of a new series of analytical work on the region called Regional Economic Issues , which we launched at a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Use tax shelters to build low-income housing, instead of government subsidies

  
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  Expensive government bureaucracies are not needed to create housing for people — low-income or otherwise. Government housing projects often require union labor, raising the price of... California political news, Contra Costa and East Bay news and politics
  2 weeks ago

• Liberals Don’t Understand How Agricultural Subsidies Work

  
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  To be fair, they don’t understand how most things work, especially when there’s math involved, but this particular quirk is quite annoying. I remember the first time I came across this general ignorance (see the comments), in a West Wing episode: Actual dialog from a recent West Wing rerun: Josh: What do I ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to Qualify for Funding for Small Business through iSTEM

  
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  The Graduate Enterprise Internship (GEI) or iSTEM Program is funded by FedDev Ontario  and supports the hiring of recent STEM graduates (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs). Qualifying for iSTEM Government Funding for Small Businesses Companies interested in the iSTEM Ontario small ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small Business Grants: iSTEM Wage Subsidies for Hiring

  
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  The Graduate Enterprise Internship (GEI) / iSTEM Program is funded by FedDev Ontario to help support small and medium-sized businesses to hire recent post-secondary graduates of a STEM program –(Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).    There are several Ontario post-secondary institutions that serve ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Ring of the Bell on Subsidies?

  
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  The Herbert Stein Law runs: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” The tautology is starting to surface in Saudi Arabia, where the government is beginning to recognize that subsidies provided to Saudi citizens are becoming unsustainable and are actually damaging the Saudi economy. As a result, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Department of Energy Spends $11 Million Per Job

  
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  Without much fanfare, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently updated the  list of loan guarantee projects  on its website. Unlike in 2008, when Barack Obama pledged to create 5 million jobs over 10 years by directing taxpayer funds toward renewable …
  2 weeks ago

• It’s come to this: Solar installer now suing the government for more money

  
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  Now, this is happening. This is where the path of relentlessly determined government subsidization of politically-preferred, rather than free-marked-selected, fledgling technologies has brought us: A troubled global solar industry awash in oversupply and rent-seeking, and taxpayer dollars being spent on a lawsuit ...
  2 weeks ago

• End-Times Alert! Feds Now Subsidizing Export of Rock n Roll! - Hit & Run : Reason.com

  
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  End-Times Alert! Feds Now Subsidizing Export of Rock n Roll! - Hit & Run : Reason.com: Can we call...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Washington Joke- Corporate Taxes

  
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  Corporate taxes in the United States are supposedly the highest in the world, nominally at 35 percent, which should be a major financial disincentive to economic growth and corporate investment in this country. However, no major corporation pays its federal obligation at this rate, finding ways to lower its taxes, or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yes, charge for water

  
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  From a look at the hysterical comments , it seems that a bunch of activists have their panties in knots over the statements by Nestles Peter Brabeck.[1] In this video (from 1:55), he discusses whether "we should privatise water supply for the population" and says [paraphrasing] that "water should not be given free ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Daily Express does satire

  
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  From The Daily Express : Experts predict a 30 per cent rise [in the cost of buying a house] over the next two years as home-hunters take advantage of the Help To Buy scheme. It would send the price of an average home to £300,000 by the end of 2015 – a huge leap from the current figure of £233,000. The scheme, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The End of an Error?

  
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  As WRM notes, one of the oldest ethanol plants in the US has gone wrongside up: Workers at one ethanol plant in South Bend, Indiana, hoped an investor would save them from liquidation by buying a plant at auction and restarting ethanol production. As the WSJ reports, those hopes went unfulfilled: [T]he winning ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas House votes to renew school tax breaks for new plants

  
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  … Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville (on left) (2005 AP Photo/Thomas Terry) The Texas House on Friday tentatively approved a bill that would extend for another decade a program that lets school districts help their communities lure factories and high-paying jobs by granting property tax breaks. The ...
  2 weeks ago

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