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Saturday Links

Jul 27, 2013

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mwkruse

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1. Mark Buchanan asks Is Economics a Science or a Religion? 2. Poverty has moved to the suburbs I don't think this should be seen as necessarily a bad thing. A few decades ago, the idea was to "warehouse" the poor in large urban complexes. There has been an intentional effort at dispersal through various…
Top 25 Things Vanishing From America

Oct 29, 2008

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in Capitalism and Markets, Culture, Economic Development, History, Technology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Wallet Pop: Top 25 Things Vanishing From America The landscape of America is constantly changing. As culture shifts and new technologies and products are introduced, this is to be expected. But some things are impacted more than others and the once-ubiquitous can even become extinct. WalletPop takes a look at 25 such things that are…