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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…
The opposite of Wal-Mart: Publix

May 7, 2007

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mwkruse

in Business

The Economist: The opposite of Wal-Mart: Publix A thriving grocery chain provides a telling contrast with Wal-Mart. WITH the rise of Wal-Mart, smaller supermarkets across America have struggled to compete. But not Publix Super Markets, which recently opened its 900th store, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and is defying Wal-Mart’s market-share success in food sales. Publix is…