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Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity
By Doug French - July 1, 2014
The minimum wage should be the easiest issue to understand for the economically savvy. If the government arbitrarily sets a floor for wages above that set by the market, jobs will be lost. Even the Congressional Budget Office admits that...
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Yellen’s Wand Is Running Low On Magic
By Doug French - May 12, 2014
How important is housing to the American economy?If a 2011 SMU paper entitled "Housing's Contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) quot; is right, nothing moves the economic needle like housing. It accounts for 17% to 18% of GDP.And don...
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