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“ The state announced Thursday that it will raise unemployment taxes a record 51 percent to stem losses that threaten the solvency of the unemployment insurance fund. “For the first time in California history, the state might have to borrow from the federal government to pay benefits to people who have lost their jobs, state officials said. “The

We can only hope.  

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“In the theory of the state that John Stuart Mill sketched in On Liberty, the government’s role is to provide an unobtrusive framework for private activities. Government provides certain goods, such as national defense and (in some versions) education, that private markets will not provide in sufficient quantities. But beyond that it merely

  U.S. Officials Ground an Entrepreneur in Iraq By EDMUND L. ANDREWS         AGHDAD, Iraq, May 14 — As the Bush administration rushes to jump-start the reconstruction of postwar Iraq, it may want to consider the recent woes of Pete Henderson. Mr. Henderson, a South African entrepreneur, thought last week that he had lined up everything he needed

  HE falling dollar has raised alarms in certain circles. But it is just what the doctor ordered for a weak American economy. And if it falls some more, all the better,” writes Jeff Madrick in the New York Times .  

“The Pacific Northwest is known for Microsoft, Intel, lattes, breathtaking natural beauty, alternative music, rain, stock-option millionaires and Ichiro Suzuki. We do not associate this forward-looking, entrepreneurial region with economic distress,” says E.J. Dionne

“The 100 or so former military officers standing in the midday sun didn’t look like much of a menace. But the threat was there: Pay up, or else,” reports Robert Collier .   

The “dinar’s surge and the dollar’s plunge have wiped out a big part of the purchasing power of the $20 emergency payments American administrators have been handing out,” says the New York Times

The “rankings will mirror the interests of the groups that aggregate around particular topics: the bloggers, experts, hobbyists and, often, the crackpots,” says Geoffrey Nunberg in the New York Times