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...think it's possible to worry and then figure out what to do. We're learning a whole series of lessons now, like you don't want to create shadow banking systems without enough capital. The idea that we should do nothing about bubbles because of this Greenspan notion that we can never figure out the difference between an asset-price increase that is fundamentally driven vs. one that's a bubble, I think, has been completely discredited. Everyone now says we should act preemptively against bubbles...
...waste, and reduced animals’ lives to mere cogs in a machine—all negative externalities of factory farming. And Mr. Vilsack, as you’ll know from sitting in on Ec 10 lectures during your time here at Harvard, taxing negative externalities is a better idea than subsidizing them...
Buchanan says he plans to test the hearing of the world's top golf professionals at the British Open in 2009, "which should give us a better idea of the dangers of frequent use." Until further study is completed, he recommends that golfers who use modern titanium drivers wear earplugs as a precaution - advice that may not be as onerous as it sounds. After all, earplugs can protect golfers not just from the crack of the club but also the more harrowing sound that often follows: a splash...
...cutting services, not only do we have a responsibility to know what we’re paying for, but we also should have some voice in choosing what we pay for in cutting services,” Decker said. “I do support the idea that the city pays the hospital $5 million dollars, but right now its unclear what we get in return for that.” Decker said she certainly is “not looking to harm services,” and pointed out that her entire family receives health care...
That said, few doubt that Obama will have an easier time selling the idea of reform that legalizes current undocumented immigrants if he can argue that the reforms would be accompanied by serious enforcement, something that never happened after the last legalization effort. "We know that one-sided reform, as we saw in 1986, cannot succeed," Napolitano said in November. "During that reform effort, the enforcement part of the equation was promised, but it didn't materialize...