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Posted in Corporatism on Mar 11th, 2010
Export promotion strategy pursued by Obama. Add this to yet another stupid, unfair, corporatist economic policy. Mr. Obama will sign an executive order establishing an Export Promotion Cabinet comprising the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Commerce and other top officials. The group, which will meet for the first time next month, is charged with executing Mr. […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Market Failures, Regulation, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 11th, 2010
In our daily news e-mail here at the U of R, the lead story this morning was titled, “Physician Calls for More Rigorous Standards for Drugs Up for FDA Approval.” In it, the U of R Med School Dr. O’Connor calls for: … more stringent Federal guidelines governing the approval of potential new drugs Among […]
Posted in Competition on Mar 11th, 2010
What ever happened to the Chevy Volt? Remember all the fanfare a year or so ago about it? A car that was entirely electric, and GM was rolling the dice and hoping that it could sell it for something like $40,000? It was a pleasant surprise to be watching the Olympics last week and see […]
