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Daily Archives: October 20, 2011

Carpe Diem

Wall Street Protestors Come to K Street in DC

Mark J. Perry | October 20, 2011, 9:09 pm

Occupy K Street (OKS). I just happened to walk by the Occupy DC encampment today at 15th and K Street, and took the photos above.  Even if not intentional, it’s appropriate that the protestors are headquartered on K Street, see … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Markets in Everything: Peer-to-Peer GM Carsharing

Mark J. Perry | October 20, 2011, 8:30 pm

DETROIT – “General Motors and RelayRides, the world’s first peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace, today announced an exclusive relationship that will allow millions of GM vehicle owners to leverage the OnStar system to rent out their idle cars through the RelayRides marketplace. … read more >

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Navigating the Bureaucracy to Start a Food Truck

Mark J. Perry | October 20, 2011, 8:04 pm

As they prepared for the lunchtime crowd, the owners of the Concrete Cuisine food truck in Detroit (pictured above) explained to the Detroit Free Press what it took to get their vehicle and food business licensed: “The food truck owners … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Thursday Positive Economic News Roundup

Mark J. Perry | October 20, 2011, 6:22 pm

There’s so much positive economic news coming out today that I’ll summarize six of the reports below instead of writing a separate post for each one:     1. Gallup’s survey-based measure of the U.S. unemployment rate dropped sharply to 8.3% in … read more >

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Economics, Energy and the Environment

Sound the retreat!

Kenneth P. Green | October 20, 2011, 3:53 pm

As I pointed out earlier this year, European countries that hitched their economic wagons to the whole low-carbon/green-energy idea haven’t been finding much success with it. That’s not a surprise, as writers such as Robert Bryce, Vaclav Smil, Steve Hayward, … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Asia

The Ashkenazim of India

Sadanand Dhume | October 20, 2011, 2:59 pm

Over at The American, Lazar Berman has a fascinating story about the high proportion of Jewish Nobel Prize winners in the sciences, a subject that has also been written about by AEI’s Charles Murray. In passing, Berman mentions how, relative … read more >

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Economics

Is Austan Goolsbee Obama’s David Stockman?

James Pethokoukis | October 20, 2011, 1:32 pm

Keep the truth coming, please! Some stunning stuff from former Obama White House economist Austan Goolsbee. First, Goolsbee on Cash for Clunkers: Former Obama administration economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said Thursday that if given a second chance he would not … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Let’s End the Antiquated, Job-Killing Sugar Shaft

Mark J. Perry | October 20, 2011, 1:32 pm

From Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), co-sponsors of the Stop Unfair Giveaways and Restrictions Act, writing in Politico: “U.S. sugar policy is rigged in favor of a handful of large sugar producers — at the expense … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Sic semper tyrannis: The death of Colonel Qaddafi and the future of a free Libya

Reza Jan | October 20, 2011, 1:10 pm

Thus always to tyrants. Qadhafi’s death is the capstone of the Libyan revolution. It also marks the fall of Sirte, one of the last strongholds of Qadhafi loyalist fighters. Mahmoud Jibril, the interim prime minister from Libya’s National Transitional Council … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Thus often belatedly with tyrants

Michael Auslin | October 20, 2011, 1:05 pm

What appears to be authentic footage from Sirte shows deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi’s naked body lying in the street, being dragged around by victorious government forces. After more than four decades of terrorizing his country and much of the … read more >

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