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Digital Music and the Free Market

Max Keiser | Posted April 24, 2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Amiestreet.Com, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Bernanke, Cartel, Copyright, Digital Music, Eliot Spitzer, George Soros, Marketing, Mpaa, Record Companies, Riaa, Swedish PIrate Party

One of the most fascinating New Economy consequences to emerge from the Eliot Spitzer sex sting is the apparent multi-hundred thousand dollar score bagged by Emperor's Club VIP escort and budding recording artist Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She had a couple of tracks listed on Dragon Slayer upstart and...

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Hugo Chavez's Very Excellent Windfall Oil Profit Tax

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted April 17, 2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Commodity Trading, Hugo Chavez, Oil, Opec, Petroleos De Venezuela, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Venezuela, Windfall Profits, Windfall Profits Tax

Hugo Chavez is not a friend of ours, but he does come up with some good ideas. As reported in the Wall Street Journal ("Venezuela Passes New Oil Tax," 04.16.08), on Tuesday, at his direction, Venezuela's National Assembly passed an oil windfall profits tax that will be assessed against...

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The End of the Age of Milton Friedman

Jeff Madrick | Posted March 31, 2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Bill Clinton, Bush Economy, Credit Crisis, Deregulation, Economy, Friedrich Van Hayek, Henry Paulson, Hyman Minsky, Keynesian Economics, Milton Friedman, U.S. Economy

The Bush administration has thrown in the towel on the long battle begun in the 1970s to minimize government oversight of the economy. In light of the credit crisis, it now wants to regulate Wall Street. Treasury Secretary Paulson has put to together broad set of reforms, not truly effectual,...

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Why China Needs To End Its Economic Mercantilism

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted January 30, 2008 | Business

Recently, the World Bank published revised statistics on PPP (purchasing power parity) -- adjusted GDP--that suggest that the Chinese economy is 40 percent smaller than was previously estimated. After recently returning from two weeks in southern China, I have to say that the new picture of a poorer China did...

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