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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Diamonds: How To Price a Finite Resource

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What do you do if you are a company like De Beers, the South African diamond producer, and you own a resource that you believe to be finite?...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Who Should Celebrate, Who Should Mourn on Tax Day?

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On Tax Day, April 15, protesters gathered on town squares and along city streets around the country. "BORN FREE, TAXED TO DEATH!" ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Economics of a Soda Tax

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Taxes go in and out of fashion. The hottest tax fad of 2010 is the "soda tax," usually interpreted as a tax extending to all sugar...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Appreciation of the Yuan: Good for the US, Good for China, Too

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From 2005 until the onset of the global economic crisis, China had allowed its currency, the yuan, or RMB, to appreciate gradually relative ...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Greek Budget Crisis: Some Comparisons with the United States

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In recent weeks, the European Union, especially the 16 countries that share the euro as their currency, has been shaken by a fiscal policy c...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Technology, Environment, and the Future of Natural Gas

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Natural gas has long been one of the leading domestic energy sources for the U.S. economy. For a while, in the 1980s, it fell to third place...
Monday, February 1, 2010

In GDP Data, Signs of Healthy Structural Change

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Advance US GDP data for fourth quarter of 2009 were released at the end of January. They indicate that the economy grew at a brisk 5.7 perce...