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• Price Discrimination

  —Wash Park Prophet

  While in theory, some forms of price discrimination are illegal under the anti-trust laws, in practice, price discrimination explains everything, or at least, everything counterintuitive and fascinating in economics, including Black Friday and cell phone contracts.Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2009) [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:49pm EST
  

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• Obama Contracts Asian Flu, The Politics of Heroin, Chairman Putin v William Browder

  —Notes From a Grumpy Old Man

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  Dana Milbank
  EJ Dionne Jr
  
  "Obama's reluctance to be challenged in public is more problematic. It sends a message to the world that contradicts his claim to the Chinese students that he is a better leader because he is forced "to hear opinions [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  by yiquan

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• List of Rockies’ arbitration eligible players

  —Haley's Comment

  DENVER — Salary arbitration has been collectively bargained since 1974. It has been misunderstood for nearly as long. Currently baseball clubs control the contracts of almost all players with zero to three years of major league experience. There is an exception made for “Super Two” players who are eligible for [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:04am EST
  

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• Udall Harms Consumers

  —Peoples Press Collective

  Senator Mark Udall pushed a law harming consumers, and now he is blaming other victims of his unjust law — credit card companies — for the harm that he caused.

  As I wrote earlier this year, Udall advocated a law violating contracts between credit card companies and their customers. I [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  by Ari

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• Here’s the details on the Belisle, Flores contracts

  —Haley's Comment

  NEW YORK — The Rockies moved quickly to fortify their bullpen Thursday, signing Matt Belisle and Randy Flores to one-year deals. Here are the details of their contracts obtained by The Denver Post. Belisle agreed to a one-year, $850,000 deal that is not fully guaranteed because it’s an arbitration contract. He [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  

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• We can just print more money

  —Peoples Press Collective

  From today’s Denver Post
  Recovery Act job-creation math doesn’t add up in Colorado The federal government reported Friday that Colorado created or saved 8,094 jobs through grants, loans and contracts funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Problem is, the figure is wrong, according to an analysis of recovery.gov data [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:19am EDT
  by David K. Williams, Jr.

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