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...beginning to wonder if anyone reads basic economics anymore. It has been widely understood for centuries that government does not create wealth; it merely redistributes it. The stimulus plan can be summarized as follows: we are going to borrow a trillion dollars from foreigners and spend it on a mile-long list of pork-barrel projects that we don't immediately need (or else we would have found another way to pay for them) and hope this gets us out of the recession. Did I miss something? There is a growing consensus among historians and economists that World...
...wall echoing the Cold War. And south of the Rio Grande, Governor Humberto Moreira of the Mexican state of Coahuila has dubbed it a "wall of hate." But no matter what the controversial barrier being constructed between Mexico and the U.S. is called, the $1.6 billion, 670-mile-long first phase is close to completion as President Barack Obama enters office...
...they bought records stolen by a former employee of the Liechtenstein bank LGT Group, owned by that Alpine nation's royal family. Other tax authorities piled on, including the IRS. In February, the IRS said it was investigating more than 100 Americans with bank accounts in Liechtenstein, a 15-mile-long country sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, where financial services account for 30% of the economy, thanks to some of the world's tightest bank-secrecy laws. "It certainly has gotten a lot of people energized," says Michael McIntyre, a professor of law and an expert on international taxation...
During a break, we walked a short distance across the grassy park and down a trail through the trees to a clearing where we could spot the fruits of our labor - the start of what I was told will be a mile-long trail of sandbags piled two-feet high atop a leaky levee. In the distance, National Guard troops piled the bags. Below us, only a few feet away, was our new enemy - the river...
...English Heritage, which manages the site, sees the situation as intolerable. But a much-anticipated solution recently collapsed when Britain's Department for Transport decided it was too expensive. English Heritage had proposed rerouting a 1.3-mile-long stretch of the A303 into a tunnel, rerouting the A344 well away from the circle, and building a $134 million state-of-the-art visitors center in the town of Amesbury, two miles away, linked by train to within walking distance of the stones. But in the eight years it took to win planning approval for the scheme, the cost...