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Starving the moral beast (Modeled Behavior)

Who suffers from oil at $115 a barrel (FT beyondbrics)

How Seattle transformed itself (Economix)

Ignore hawkish rhetoric (Tim Duy)

Social Security is not welfare (Mark Thoma)

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