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Solyndra crash shows shakiness of market subsidies
Submitted by Joseph Perkins on 9.19.2011
Solyndra, the Fremont solar-panel manufacturer that went belly up last week, was the subject of a hearing Wednesday all the way in the nation’s capital. Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Committee on Oversight and Investigations wanted to get to the bottom of how the much-hyped “green” company scored a half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee two years ago this month.
Your Government Still the Main Threat to Your Freedoms
Submitted by Steven Greenhut on 9.12.2011
In my years writing for newspapers, I’ve always hated the commemoration ritual. What new insight can we offer about Thanksgiving? What words can still capture the essence of D-Day? And, this weekend, what can we really say that ameliorates the horror of 9/11?
Defensive Medicine
Submitted by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 9.7.2011
The article “Study: Only 1 in 5 medical malpractice cases pay” (Tribune, Aug. 17) reported that “most physicians and virtually every surgeon will face at least one malpractice lawsuit in their careers.” This alarming statistic is an important driver of rising U.S. health care costs.
California ‘Jobs Gap’ Jumps to Record High
Submitted by John Seiler on 9.1.2011
California's "Jobs Gap" with the rest of America jumped to a record high, according to new calculations. In 2010, I devised the "Jobs Gap" to measure how much worse unemployment is in California that the rest of America. The Jobs Gap is calculated by subtracting the national unemployment level from California's. Of course, the major factor affecting California's economy is national economic policy. What the Jobs Gap calculation does is filter out the "noise" of the performance of the national economy. What's left is the affect of California policy on state jobs.
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