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3 Market Issues Not to Worry About
Commentary: Investors need to keep their eye on the ball.
Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s Cincinnati office
Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. … Continue reading
Eric Holder endorses warrants for e-mail. It’s about time.
Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder declared his support for requiring the government to get a warrant before reading Americans’ e-mail. It’s about time. Read full article >>
Why Shoppers Don’t Care About Bangladesh
Consumers express shock over factory conditions, yet still buy the clothes.
The U.S. stops about half of illegal border crossings from Mexico
There’s no question that the United States has poured vast resources into border security over the past few decades. The government has built 650 miles of fence and hired 21,000 Border Patrol personnel. It spent $ 18 billion on enforcement … Continue reading
Keynes was, incredibly, right about the future. He was wrong about how we’d be spending it.
John Maynard Keynes was right about the future. But he was wrong about how we’d be spending it. “In the long run,” Keynes famously wrote, “we are all dead.” I rate that claim true. But it actually has little to … Continue reading
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Dow 15,000: Here’s why caring about it is not as pointless as it might seem
The champagne corks are surely ready to pop on Wall Street, and the nation’s business editors are surely trying to decide whether their headlines should be in 36-point or 42-point type, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed above … Continue reading
Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the Oregon Health Study
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What Fisker’s failure tells us about Obama’s clean-energy programs
It’s time for another round of scrutiny over the Obama administration’s clean-energy programs. On Wednesday, House lawmakers held a fractious hearing over federal loans that had been made to struggling electric-car manufacturer Fisker Automotive. Read full article >>
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