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Kevin Drum reacts to a bill which aims to limit the stuff that welfare recipients can buy with their food stamps:What a dilemma. On the one hand, this bill promotes the exact same nanny-state behavior that Republicans howl about when Michelle Obam... read more

Al otro lado, en el jardín de la iglesia estaban los columpios, mis recuerdos son de días soleados, las laderas que hoy aparecen negras como escombreras de carbón solían ser verdes. Mis hermanos y yo, correteábamos con mi abuelo, entre el tobog... read more

In SuperFreakonomics, we wrote about a media sensation in 2001 that came to be known as "Summer of the Shark." A few particularly gruesome shark attacks in American waters had newspapers, magazines, and TV stations scrambling to out-shout each oth... read more

Over at the Tax Policy Center’s blog, TaxVox, my colleague Roberton Williams examines the pitfalls that afflict some efforts to measure a person’s tax rate: Investment manager James Ross last week told New York Times columnist James Stewart that h... read more

A vast, poor country can still generate rapid growth by catching up on high-income countries, regardless of the global environment, writes Martin Wolf read more

Alex Tabarrok argues in his ebook, Launching the Innovation Renaissance, that graduates with STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) degrees are more likely to create innovations that benefit the rest of society – and therefore they are rela... read more

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In recent months gold prices have risen dramatically, first breaching the US$1000 barrier, then jumping another 20% in the past few weeks, surpassing US$1200 before correcting downward again to around US$1100. Some gold-bug bulls say the gold pric... read more