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Feel The Liberal Love For…Walmart?

{ Posted on Mar 18 2010 by Nick Gillespie }
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Who said this in praise of Walmart's in-house check-cashing operations? If you’re cashing, for example, a $1,000 biweekly paycheck then $6 is almost one third the price MoneyGram is asking. Nothing too earth-shattering about this, but it underscores the point that a lot of the ...Read More »

How to Create Real Urban Redevelopment

{ Posted on Mar 18 2010 by Sam Staley }
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Cleveland made an important commitment to banishing the moniker “the Mistake on the Lake” in the 1980s and 19990s. Sound fiscal management under then Mayors George Voinovich and Michael White kept Cleveland from falling too far off the cliff. The city invested hundreds of ...Read More »

In for a Dime, In for a Dollar

{ Posted on Mar 18 2010 by Steve Chapman }
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When I heard about the proposal to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, I had two thoughts. The first: Grant is on the $50 bill? The second: Jimmy Carter is going to be furious. Not that there's anything ...Read More »

Government-Subsidized Job Creation Preservation Elimination in Massachusetts

{ Posted on Mar 17 2010 by Jacob Sullum }
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A Boston Globe investigation finds that Massachusetts' Economic Development Incentive Program, which during the last 16 years has dispensed hundreds of millions of dollars in state and local tax breaks to businesses that promised to create jobs, often has little or nothing to ...Read More »

Open Thread: Is Your Town Pro-Business? Anti-Business? Let Us Count The Ways

{ Posted on Mar 17 2010 by Nick Gillespie }
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Today's episode of Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is titled "Taking Care of Business" and details the various ways in which The Mistake on The Lake makes it tougher than tough to start and operate businesses within the city's limits. Well, what about the ...Read More »

Take Care of Business: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 4

{ Posted on Mar 17 2010 by Economics }
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  After World War II, Cleveland was booming, thanks to its leadership role in heavy industry and a business-friendly climate. Today, the city’s high taxes and onerous regulatory demands make it nearly impossible for new businesses to set up shop while choking the life out ...Read More »

Timothy Geithner: He’s Way Smarter Than You, and He Could Kick Your Ass

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by Brian Doherty }
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Of the awe-filled profiling of our treasury secretary there is no end, and the Atlantic has one this month that is so staggering in its scope, so wide in its perspicacity, so epic in its erudition, that one thing is for sure: you'll never ...Read More »

The Wrong Kind of Toyotathon

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by Ronald Bailey }
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Tales of runaway cars have a long history. The first sudden acceleration study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was done in 1978 and the agency had conducted more than 100 investigations involving 20 manufacturers by 1990. By the mid-1980s, the NHTSA, ...Read More »

Inflation: The Unspeakable Crisis

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by Brian Doherty }
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Michael Kinsley at the Atlantic is worried that more people aren't worried about inflation, and is sharp on what sucks about it: A stable currency is firm ground on which you can build a life. Inflation turns life into Through the Looking-Glass: you have ...Read More »

‘You Cut Spending’

{ Posted on Mar 16 2010 by Nick GillespieMatt Welch }
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In 1999, a year after winning a second and final term as Republican governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson became the most prominent politician in the United States to call for legalizing marijuana. He also said straightforwardly that he had used pot himself in ...Read More »
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