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		<title>Is a Resource Curse Crowding Out US Renewable Energy?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[TweetApril 19, 2026 &#8212; The Natural Resource Curse [NRC] refers to negative effects that a booming commodity sector can have on a country’s overall economic growth.  (Commodities are defined to include oil and natural gas, minerals, and often agriculture.) Many oil-rich producers in the Mideast and Africa, for example, have failed to achieve the prosperity [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Immigration Bad for America?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tweet March 23, 2026 &#8212; Immigration is perhaps the most incendiary issue these days, especially in the US. Is immigration bad for the economy, as many people apparently believe? Jobs Its opponents worry that immigrants compete with US citizens for jobs, housing, and so forth.  What that instinct misses is that those coming from abroad add [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Usury laws and Trump’s proposed cap on credit card interest rates</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[TweetFeb. 19, 2026  &#8212; Donald Trump, at Davos in January, proposed putting a 10 % cap on the interest rates that banks can charge on credit cards, a position favored by many Democrats, including progressives like Bernie Sanders.  Is it possible that this is an issue where his rhetoric about helping the little guy might [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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