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The Gasoline CrisisPart 11: Gasoline prices are down, bill to eliminate the...

Bits and pieces from today’s news, including more than you probably wanted to know about switch grass. Also, Neutral Source has dredged up November 2005 Federal Trade Commission testimony in response...

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Trouble in the Carbon Offset MarketDouble-counting and other econ 101 errors

We’ve posted several times on “carbon neutrality” — how it’s defined, how environmentalists are split between CO2 Puritans and Pragmatists, and further ramifications of their conflict centering on the...

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The Economics of Cell-Phone JammersA case study in government misallocation...

New York Times reporter Matt Richtel seems to have set off a pandemic news stories and commentaries with his profile of “otherwise respectable people” who use jamming devices to illegally obstruct the...

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What’s Suddenly Wrong with the Oil Market?Part 3: Open disagreement about...

On July 8 we blogged on a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal under the joint bylines of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  The two European leaders...

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Is Fraud on Facebook a Market Failure? Rosetta Stone’s deceptive ‘$350...

As of August 20, nearly 40,000 Facebook users are reported to have “claimed” an offer from Rosetta Stone to save “$350 off last year’s price on select Rosetta Stone products.” It appears that none of...

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Proving Eligibility for Means-Tested Benefit Programs: A regulatory problem...

Several unrelated news reports have highlighted an apparently widespread problem afflicting federal means-tested public benefit program: a potentially large fraction of program beneficiaries are...

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The FCC ‘Critical Information Needs’ Study and the Paperwork Reduction Act

A proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to embark on a politically sensitive survey of the news business (the “Critical Information Needs” study) recently ran into a firestorm of criticism....

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