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An economist explains health spending
Don Surber
Thursday September 10, 2009
[source: http://dailymail.com/Opinion/DonSurber/200909090307 ]
Robert Fogel won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993. He wrote a piece last week in which he explained the two reasons why Americans spend more money on health care than everyone else in the world.
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Global Food Riots
April 24, 2008, 4:00 a.m.
By Deroy Murdock
[source: http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OTBiOTY2ZTAyMWQwYTJkMDIwMmFiZGY4YzAxM2VkNjc ]
To draw a phrase from the late, great William F. Buckley Jr.’s words as he founded National Review, someone must stand athwart the federal ethanol program yelling, “Stop!” The emergency brake should be pulled — NOW — before ethanol wreaks further havoc.
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Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 21, 2008
[source: http://www2.nysun.com/article/74994 ]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
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Biofuels under fire at International Energy Forum
Mon Apr 21, 1:54 PM ET ROME (AFP) [source: news.yahoo] Biofuels, once seen as a key factor in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, are behind the current global food crisis, major oil producers and consumers charged at an energy forum here … Continue reading
How Poor Are America’s Poor?
Robert E. Rector
Senior Research Fellow
August 27, 2007
http://www.heritage.org/
Executive Summary:
How Poor Are America’s Poor? Examining the “Plague” of Poverty in America by Robert E. Rector Executive Summary #2064 Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau counts the number of “poor” persons in the U.S. In 2005, the Bureau found 37 million “poor” Americans. Presidential candidate John Edwards claims that these 37 million Americans currently “struggle with incredible poverty.”#[ Continue reading