Month: March 2011
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Quantitative easing: another round?
Another round of expansionist monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing 3 could be on the way.
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Who benefits, loses from regulation?
Who benefits and loses from increased regulation of greenhouse gases?
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Kansas Arts Commission survives
The Kansas Senate votes to override an executive order canceling the Kansas Arts Commission.
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Judges are lawmakers
In a democracy like ours, should lawmakers be selected democratically?
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday March 14, 2011
Today: Kansas Democrats: EITC cut is a tax increase; historian to visit Wichita; Kansas parents’ property tax challenge is dismissed.
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TIF, a Wichita ‘tool,’ might be on the way out in California
Tax increment financing (TIF), a key component for the financing of the revitalization of downtown Wichita, might be on the way out in California.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday March 13, 2011
Today: Wichita city council this week; how attitudes can differ; private property and the price system; toward a free market in education; are lottery tickets like a state-owned casino?; money, banking and the Federal Reserve; Wichita-area legislators to meet public; Pompeo to meet with public; losing the brains race; Teachers unions explained.
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Kansas’ Huelskamp leads in the House
U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas speaks on out-of-control federal spending and the deficit.
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Please feel free to ignore Lou Dobbs
Television personality Lou Dobbs promotes an economic fallacy: that destruction holds the seeds of economic progress.
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Speculators selfishly provide a public service
Speculators are selfish people, acting only to make as much profit as possible for themselves without concern for the welfare of others. By doing so, they provide a valuable public service.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 11, 2011
Today: Owens said to be blocking judicial selection reform; Cabela’s bank; Scott Walker; outsourcing opposed by Kansas state workers; tilting at wind turbines.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011
Today: Kansas 2011 budget; green jobs; America, welfare nation; politics vs. free markets.