Salad Bar Closing

November 22nd, 2010

Watch out! With video-driven demand for bandwidth exploding on both the wired and wireless Internet, expect service providers to drop standard all-you-can-watch pricing in favor of tiered rates. Higher monthly bills are sure to follow.

Well, probably not. According to a survey by Scott Wallsten and James …

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Free Lunch

July 22nd, 2010

Countercyclical fiscal policy creates jobs, income and economic capacity during lean times. Could countercyclical regulatory policy be used to the same ends? In a policy brief released by the liberal Progressive Policy Institute, Michael Mandel, the former economics editor of Business Week who is now editor-in-chief of [READ MORE...]





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