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...corn being dumped on the domestic market has already depressed spot prices. But don't expect a break in the price of cornflakes. The corn in a 1-lb. box costs cereal makers just 3¢, a tiny part of the total cost, according to Robert Wiser, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University. Higher energy costs more than offset any cuts in the price of corn...
...they are able to predict with greater accuracy the frequency and potential damage of storms like Katrina and spread their risk across the country accordingly. While residents in hurricane-prone areas can expect rate hikes, "people in Alaska won't be paying for this," says Robert Hartwig, chief economist with the Insurance Information Institute...
...practice. Men, low-income parents, Southerners, evangelical Christians, Latinos and African Americans are more supportive of spanking. African-American parents say their children need to be especially under control in a prejudiced society. "I think black people have a lower tolerance for children looking disrespectful," says Pam Jackson, an economist and single mother in Washington. Wilma Ann Anderson, publisher of Mahogany Baby, an online magazine for black parents, and a mother of four, agrees. When a white woman goes out with four children, Anderson says, she instantly commands respect. "When I go out with my four kids, I feel like...
...years, New York City's business community has steadily migrated to midtown Manhattan because of its easier access to the city's northern suburbs. "For the past 25 to 30 years, lower Manhattan has suffered under a handicap, compared to midtown, due to transportation," says William Wheaton, an economist who heads research at the Center for Real Estate at M.I.T. Sept. 11 only accelerated the northern shift by the law firms and investment banks that for decades had anchored Wall Street. Immediately after 9/11, many financial firms, including Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, moved their employees to other locations around...
This Australian Labor M.P. is a rare bird. Plenty of pols write books; only some are deep thinkers, fewer still are prepared to serve up ideas that go against party doctrine. An economist with big dreams, Emerson ranges widely and passion-ately from health to education, infrastructure to population policy, tax to trade. He proposes a universal payment to mothers of children aged under three, equity (rather than debt) funding of students in higher education, and a revival of economic activity in the regions. Many have spoken of the nation's complacency; its obsession with material wealth and comfort...