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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

America’s new no. 2 oil state – North Dakota – sets more eye-popping oil production records in June

Mark J. Perry | August 14, 2012, 4:32 pm

The “Economic Miracle State” of North Dakota pumped another record amount of oil during the month of June at a rate of more than 660,000 barrels per day, which was an increase of 3.2% compared to oil production in May … read more >

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Tuesday afternoon links

Mark J. Perry | August 14, 2012, 3:15 pm

1. The “Van Indicator” Signals Economic Recovery - If you want to tell how small businesses are feeling, find out how many vans they’re buying (90% of vans are purchased by businesses). Van sales were up 32% in July year-over-year, a greater annual increase … read more >

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Markets in everything: Research validation service

Mark J. Perry | August 14, 2012, 2:12 pm

Science Exchange, in partnership with the open-access publisher PLOS and open data repository figshare, announced today the launch of the Reproducibility Initiative – a new program to help scientists, institutions and funding agencies validate their critical research findings. “In … read more >

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Obama wrongly accuses Bush (and Paul Ryan) of causing the Great Recession

James Pethokoukis | August 14, 2012, 1:59 pm

The Obama campaign has made a curious economic argument as part of its attack on Paul Ryan: Ryan rubber-stamped the reckless Bush economic policies that exploded our deficit and crashed our economy. Now the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by … read more >

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The significant medal inequality of the 2012 Olympics

Mark J. Perry | August 14, 2012, 10:30 am

As predicted in a recent CD post, there was a significant amount of “medal inequality” in the 2012 Summer Olympics, see the country shares above of the total 962 medals that were awarded this year to athletes from 85 countries. … read more >

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Markets in everything: Eyesight for the blind is coming

Mark J. Perry | August 14, 2012, 10:15 am

Bloomberg — “Blind mice had their vision restored with a device that helped diseased retinas send signals to the brain, according to a study that may lead to new prosthetic technology for millions of sight-impaired people. The technology moves prosthetics … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion, Polls

What about Biden?

Karlyn Bowman | August 14, 2012, 9:41 am

ABC News and the Post haven’t asked about Joe Biden in a long time, but other pollsters have. read more >

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Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

Politics and Public Opinion, Elections

85 days: U.S. 2012 elections live

Tuesday, August 14th

Henrik Temp and James Pethokoukis | August 14, 2012, 9:24 am

Up to the minute news and analysis on Election 2012. Updated throughout the day. read more >

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