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Daily Archives: April 10, 2012

Carpe Diem

The Mythology of Diversity and Mismatch Effect

Mark J. Perry | April 10, 2012, 8:52 pm

UCLA Law Professor Rick Sander guest-blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy and quoted at Mind the Campus:  “Colleges and universities are committed to the mythology that diversity happens merely because they want it and put resources into it, and that all … read more >

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Carpe Diem

North Dakota Now Produces More Oil Than Crude Imports from Nigeria and Colombia for First Time

Mark J. Perry | April 10, 2012, 8:15 pm

The EIA reported today that: “The trend of declining crude oil imports into the United States continued in the first month of 2012. There has been a particularly sharp decline in imports from Nigeria due to the idling in late … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Robot Leaps Building in A Single Bound

Mark J. Perry | April 10, 2012, 5:44 pm
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Carpe Diem

Temporary Employment Hiring is Improving

Mark J. Perry | April 10, 2012, 4:16 pm

The American Staffing Association reported today that its weekly Staffing Index of temporary and contract employment increased to a year-to-date high of 90 for the week ending April 1, which was almost 6% above the year-ago level and 0.74% above … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

The lesson from Burma: Sanctions work

Marc Thiessen | April 10, 2012, 3:32 pm

Fifteen years ago, the U.S. business community launched a campaign to discredit economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool.  Backed by the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Foreign Trade Council, and other business lobbying groups, they created an organization, … read more >

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Economics, Entitlements

Turns out ObamaCare really does bend the curve — in the wrong direction

James Pethokoukis | April 10, 2012, 2:34 pm

Back in May of 2009, Peter Orszag, then President Obama’s  budget director, wrote a blog post for the White House web site. It was titled “Medicare Trustees to America: Bend the Curve!” Here’s a portion: Today, the Trustees of the … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Energy Boom Comes to Appalachia Ohio

Mark J. Perry | April 10, 2012, 1:37 pm

Appalachia has been the “forgotten part of Ohio for the last 50 years,” explains Glenn Enslen, Carroll County’s economic development director, in the video above, “but now we’re at the forefront of economic development in the state of Ohio.”  Reason? … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

Banter #52: An Interview with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley

Stuart James | April 10, 2012, 1:06 pm

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley visited AEI last week and she took time out of her busy schedule to join Andrew and I on the podcast. We discussed her new book “Can’t Is Not An Option” and what direction she … read more >

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Economics

America the Progressive, Part V

Nick Schulz | April 10, 2012, 12:44 pm

So President Obama is making his case for raising taxes on the rich today. Gene Epstein has a nice chart that puts total tax rates in perspective. Epstein points out that while taxes for all Americans have come down since … read more >

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Economics, International economy

The rapid fading of the ECB’s short-term fix

Desmond Lachman | April 10, 2012, 11:55 am

Evidently €1trillion does not buy very much in Europe anymore. Judging by the financial market’s renewed unease about Italy and Spain over the past week it would seem that all that the European Central Bank’s EUR 1 trillion liquidity injection … read more >

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