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...This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...slapped with extra costs. That’s exactly what almost happened to me at Logan’s AirTran counter when I flew with another small airline. Taking one glance at my bag, the woman in charge pulled out a tape measure. She proceeded to explain that its combined dimensions exceeded limits by less than one inch, and that I had no option but to pay an additional $40. The embarrassment and frustration of my fellow travelers notwithstanding, I held up the line and argued with the woman. Finally, I wrested the bag from her, tightened the luggage strap...

Author: By Matthew H. Ghazarian | Title: No Free Lunch | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...encourage the growth of bureaucracy. And recent empirical research - some of it by Christina Romer, the University of California, Berkeley, economist who will be chairwoman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers - indicates that tax cuts have been quite effective as stimulus in the past. All of which helps explain why 40% of the Obama stimulus consists of tax reductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama's Stimulus Package Work? | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...quoted also in euro or dollar equivalents. The elderly must also buy food, yet the rationing card covers only about half of a month’s supply of food, so convertible pesos are needed as well. The insufficiency of Cuba’s economic growth helps to explain the hardship that many Cubans must bear every...

Author: By Jorge I. Domínguez | Title: The Castro Regime at Age 50 | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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