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Trentlyon: Will Banks Continue Offering 30-Year Mortgages in Flood Zones? 20 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Bob Trentlyon at Yale Football Game. The following was sent to me via email by my friend Yale Alumnus Robert Trentlyon, who gave me permission a few weeks ago to post any of his missives that appear ...
Net Taxable Personal Incomes of Migrants among U.S. States 20 Aug 2013 | 05:25 am
Change in Real Gross AGI by State, 2000-2010 The Tax Foundation prepares maps every Monday. They are neatly drawn. These maps seem focused on the single theme that taxes in America are just too darn...
Flavored Cigars - For Those Who Would Otherwise Not Become Addicted 18 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Worse than candy cigarettes - sweet-flavored cigars. My Dad did not smoke cigarettes, but he did smoke cigars and a pipe. He suffered from dizziness in his last decade of life, had a stroke and died ...
State Tobacco Revenue, Pigou and Implied Bias 13 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
This is a chart from the American Lung Assn. website. http://www.stateoftobaccocontrol.org/state-grades/. The Tax Foundation has a new Monday Map on Tobacco Revenue and ranks each state by the percen...
Two Possible NYC Responses to Rising Water Levels 31 Jul 2013 | 08:25 am
Subway stop after Sandy, October 29, 2013. Response #1. A NYC Plan to Be Flooded (by Douglas Hill) New York City plans to be flooded. Unlike people living in several cities in Europe and New England...
NYC as a Potential #1 Global Tech Leader 8 Jul 2013 | 11:44 pm
L to R: John Tepper Marlin, Helen Keller (portrait), Henry Etzkowitz. Last month I met with my friend Henry Etzkowitz for breakfast. There he is with the hat in the photo at left. I am taking the pic...
How to Keep a Lid on Cell Phone Roaming Charges Overseas 28 Jun 2013 | 12:06 pm
I am in UK with my good old iPhone 4 and no one covering my roaming charges. I have been trying to balance the high cost of roaming charges and the need to be in touch with people, which is why I have...
Mr. Bernanke - Does This Picture Look Like Recovery? 21 Jun 2013 | 01:13 am
Civilian employment/population ratio, 2003-2013 Paul Krugman in his NY Times blog today has a terrific chart from the FRED database at the St. Louis Fed website showing that the key ratio of employme...
The Even Longer War 14 Jun 2013 | 05:18 am
Afghanistan War Became Longest U.S. War Ever. But Isn't the Gulf War Longer than All 20th Century Wars Combined? The "Long War" is a term used by Philip Bobbitt in his (long - 1,000 pages) 2002 boo...
Taking Stock After Sandy - Preparing for 2013 Storms 4 Jun 2013 | 03:17 am
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice prepared an in-depth report on the ways in which special groups of New Jersey residents were permanently hurt by the storm, more than the average resident. ...
