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Daily Archives: December 27, 2012

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Carpe Diem

What today’s college students should know about fossil fuels: CO2 emissions today are actually the lowest in their lifetimes

Mark J. Perry | December 27, 2012, 4:44 pm

Student activists on many campuses are trying to force colleges and public pension funds to participate in a political cause against global warming, by diverting all their endowment holdings away from large fossil-fuel companies. Here’s what today’s college students should … read more >

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Carpe Diem

What can we learn from bowling about incentives, disincentives and progressive income taxes?

Mark J. Perry | December 27, 2012, 4:29 pm

Under the scoring rules of bowling, you get rewarded, not penalized, for being a successful bowler.  When a player clears all ten pins using both balls in a frame and gets a “spare,” the bowler is awarded ten points for … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Europe and Russia

Latvia as a cautionary tale for Europe

Desmond Lachman | December 27, 2012, 2:48 pm

In a measure of how desperate Brussels has become for success stories in the ongoing European debt crisis, the European Commission holds up tiny Latvia as the poster child for how countries should cope with their external and public finance … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Defense

No fix: The cliff dive is for keeps

Mackenzie Eaglen | December 27, 2012, 11:51 am

Now that the nation is set to go over the fiscal cliff, the groundwork is being laid to ensure it plays out in slow motion. Many policymakers wrongly think that this will buy more time for Congress and the president to work out a deal retroactively later this spring. read more >

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Carpe Diem

The top 1% of US taxpayers pay almost as much in federal income taxes as the entire bottom 95%, and half of that bottom group paid no taxes at all in 2010

Mark J. Perry | December 27, 2012, 11:37 am

According to new IRS data, the 1.35 million taxpayers that represent the highest-earning one percent of the Americans who filed federal income tax returns in 2010 earned 18.9% of the total gross income and paid 37.4% of all federal income … read more >

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A record year and record impact: Please join AEI’s community

Jason Bertsch | December 27, 2012, 11:13 am

This year brought no shortage of highlights at the American Enterprise Institute. Yet again, my AEI colleagues testified more often on Capitol Hill than scholars from any other think tank, university, or non-profit policy or academic organization. They published nearly … read more >

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