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Posted by Alan Childress [The Society of American Law Teachers has a list of past presidents and board members that reads like a who’s who of the law prof world. A letter sent to Dean Griffin of Tulane today, by…
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Update on Bill Threatening La. Student Clinics: SALT Weighs In
Two additional bar discipline reports have been filed in connection with ethics charges brought in Michigan against attorneys in connection with litigation involving former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. In one matter, the tri-county hearing panel found that the charges against…
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Defending The Mayor Part Two
I believe that physical gold is a reasonable investment right now based on the following factors: 1) sovereign defaults; 2) shortages of physical deposits; 3) the dollar; 4) central banks; 5) declining production; 6) inflation; 7) deflation; 
uncertainty and distrust in government; and 9) flight to safety. Sovereign Defaults Iceland, Dubai, Greece, Portugal, Spain … The list of potential sovereign defaults just keeps growing.
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PHYSICAL Gold is a Reasonable Investment Right Now
Viriva Community Credit Union is sponsoring a flea market event on: May 22nd, 2010 at 157 York Rd, Warminster PA 18974. Sell your unwanted items or homemade goods all while…
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Spring Clean for Charity
And this new study is from Nature, the prestigious peer-reviewed journal.
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New study shows that human and chimpanzee DNA are very different
The New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department imposed a six-month suspension with reinstatement conditional on a further court order of an attorney who had charged excessive (but not illegal) fees to a elderly client who suffered from…
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Bilking Elderly Client Draws Suspension
Oracle Database Vault allows security administrators to protect a database from privileged account access to application data. Database objects can be placed in protected realms, which can be accessed only if a specific set of conditions are met.
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Database Vault 11gR2 11.2.0.1 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite
April 30, 2010 Dean Baker’s new book strips away the ideology and applies the basics of economics to some of the most pressing issues of the day For Immediate Release: April 30, 2010 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C. – What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics and applied them consistently? What if we looked past ideology and tried to find the policies that make the most sense and work towards an economy for everyone?
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What if We Took Economics Seriously?
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel has awarded damages to the Gale family as a result of losses sustained in Lehman-backed Main Street Natural Gas Bonds sold to them by their broker. The panel granted rescission, which is to say it ordered the brokerage firm to take back the bonds and reimburse the Gales the purchase price they paid for the bonds
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Investors Recover Losses on Main Street Natural Gas Bonds
Today the MIT Press is publishing CEPR co-director Dean Baker’s latest book, Taking Economics Seriously . It’s a cloth/hardcover compact (4 1/2″ by 7″ and 136 pages) book that offers an alternative Econ 101.
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A Great Graduation Gift for the Econ Major in Your Life
Christopher Kimball, the editor of Cook’s Illustrated tweeted this morning, “Why Does Canned Beef Broth Taste Like Water? USDA only requires ONE part beef to 135 parts water!” Not believing everything I read on Twitter, I pulled out the USDA’s Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book — and sure enough, Kimball was telling the truth: BROTH, BEEF OR PORK : No distinction has been made between “broth” and “stock.” They may be used interchangeably as the resulting liquid from simmering meat and/or bones in water with seasonings
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Watery Broth Is a Perfect Metaphor for the State
April 30, 2010, Dean Baker’s Statement at the Federal Communications Commission’s Future of Media Workshop Workshop on ” Public and Other Non-Commercial Media in the Digital Era ” I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this proposal for using individual vouchers as a mechanism for supporting non-commercial media.
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New Strategies for Supporting Public and Noncommercial Media
April 30, 2010 (GDP Byte) By Dean Baker April 30, 2010 Productivity growth will be close to 2.4 percent for the quarter. The first increase in inventories since the first quarter of 2008 raised GDP growth in the first quarter of 2010 to 3.2 percent
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Rise in Inventories Raises GDP Growth to 3.2 Percent
The web page of the Ohio Supreme Court reports: The law license of [a] Cleveland attorney…has been suspended for two years, with the final 18 months of that term stayed on conditions, for professional misconduct arising from his admitted use…
Video is here . (H/T Apologetics 315 ) This problem is similar to the problem of divine hiddenness and the problem of evil and suffering . God’s purpose in his relationship with you is not to make you happy
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Jim Wallace discusses the problem of unanswered prayer
Our friends at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently featured Maryland Chamber President and CEO Kathy Snyder, CCE on their ShopFloor Blog.
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NAM Podcast: 2010 Session Recap
The Illinois Hearing Board has recommended a censure of an attorney who had prepared a series of testamentary documents for a client that included bequests to him. The attorney acknowledged the conduct but and indicated that he was not aware…
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Don’t Mess With The Opera
When we try to engineer communities, the results are disastrous. Community is destroyed by top-down processes precisely because top-down processes are simplifying, unnatural, and create disorder. FULL ARTICLE by Troy Camplin Join the discussion and post a comment Related posts: Forums pass 4000 mark Coders/DBA’s: join MisesDev to improve Mises.org If Men Were Angels
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Zoning Laws Destroy Communities
We provide free custom surveys of available office space including a price list and floor plans. Simply reach out to us here! Downtown North Toronto Office Space for Lease April 2010 View more documents from Chris Fyvie .
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Office Space Available for Lease – Downtown North Toronto – April 2010
Doug French on Mises, Rothbard and the Advancement of Free-Markets with Scott Smith and the Daily Bell Introduction : Douglas French is president of the Mises Institute and author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply. He received his Masters degree in economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, under Murray Rothbard with Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe serving on his thesis committee.
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An Interview with LVMI President Doug French
The 4th Global Finance Academy (GFA) conference will taked place at the University College Dublin (UCD) Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business on May 26th. REGISTRATION The 2010 conference will be held over 1 day on Wednesday 26th May 2010 at the Graduate School of Business campus in Blackrock
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Global Finance Academy Conference
Forget complicated arguments about the benefits of public banking. Instead, look at this chart from Business Insider : 49 out of 50 U.S. states are still showing less economic activity than a year ago, based on February 2010 coincident economic indicators from the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia
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The ONLY State With a Growing Economy During the Last Year Has Its Own Public Bank.    Any Questions?
Today’s Daily Angle comes from Wikinvest Wire member David Hunkar of TopForeignStocks.com. You can read the full article on David’s blog . ALL-America Latina Logistica S.A, the Brazil -based Latin America ’s independent rail-based logistics operator, listed its ADR on the OTCQX market in Level 2 category with the ticker ALLAY .
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New ADR Listing: Brazilian Railroad-based Logistics Operator
The WinWeb.com Small Business Competition that I mentioned in my last blog post has made me think about the way entrepreneurs work and the effect that a surge of entrepreneurship could have on the economy, worldwide. In the UK alone, SME’s account for 99.9% of all enterprises, providing 59.4% of private sector employment and 50.1% of private sector turnover.
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The Spirit of the Entrepreneur
Interesting conversation today with a voter….$163,000,000 paid in property taxes in Shasta County last year….claim made by the incumbent that $16.5 million was saved the taxpayers. Quite a difference, and a small percent of the total….and many should have been on Prop 8 to bring assessed value to market value, but were not. Not fair, and not right
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Too Little Too Late for Shasta County Taxpayers