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In a case of eating your own cooking, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez underwent surgery in Cuba
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s plan for New York City with hurricane Irene bearing down on the Big Apple was to evacuate residents and force businesses to close in low-lying areas. Move in with friends and relatives on higher ground and stay out of the way so government’s first responders handle real emergencies was his message. The result, as one of my
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William C. Dudley is the amazingly out-of-touch President of the New York Fed. Speaking in Queens today, he said the economy has improved, but a long way from improved employment and price stability. The audience pressed Dudley about higher food prices, wherein Reuters reports “people forget that even as the price of food is rising, other prices
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Agents from the Financial and Economic Crime Unit sat at the Three Little Pigs Cafe bar in Athens recently working a stakeout to find a suspected tax cheat–the Three Little Pigs owner. These Greek government gumshoes were soon asking to look at customers’ receipts to see if the night club was collecting value-added taxes. “Armed with a new law
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Private economics consulting firms figure the rate of price inflation in Argentina is running more than double the official 9.7% and are publishing their data, making President Cristina Kirchner’s administration upset. The Wall Street Journal ‘s Taos Turner explains , The government is charging MyS Consultores with “publishing false information
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The university where Murray Rothbard and Hans Hoppe once taught is facing what the Las Vegas Review Journal describes as bankruptcy. UNLV president Neal Smatresk “said he believes the state’s higher education system will have to declare financial exigency, a declaration similar to bankruptcy, to deal with the cuts.” A financial exigency
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David Carr frets, “For those of us who make a living typing, it’s all very scary, of course. It’s less about the diminution of authority and expertise, although there is that, and more about the growing perception that content is a commodity, and one that can be had for the price of zero.” While Arianna Huffington appears to be on the verge of
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Today’s New York Times reports that unless the postal service gets some help from Uncle Sam, mail delivery will cease entirely this winter. What about those TV commercials sponsored by the postal workers union claiming that no taxpayer money is needed to deliver the mail? Nonsense as it turns out. “Our situation is extremely serious,” the
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The U.S. Constitution mentions three federal crimes by citizens: treason, piracy and counterfeiting. Today, there are an estimated 4,500 crimes in federal statutes, write Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller for the Wall Street Journal . Clarence Darrow anticipated the prison nation that America is today a hundred years ago in his book Resist Not