NY Times reports, in earthquake, China is beginning to develop its own robust civil society. This can't happen without rising economic prosperity and personal wealth. Milton Friedman's essay on the relation between economic freedom and political freedom makes more sense than ever.
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- What is the way out for the US airlines
- Vietnam's inflation crisis
- New wave of African aid (aka grabbing natural reso...
- A look at Q1 GDP revision
- Behind Bear Stearns' fallout
- Ditch dollar peg?
- Lehman economist says oil in 'asset bubble'
- Hamilton: understanding crude oil prices
- Commodity index speculators
- Inflation mugger is back
- Pension funds and commodity speculation
- Foreign intervention and democracy
- Unemployment and Recession: initial claims vs. con...
- Theory linking Hepatitis to China's 'missing women...
- Fed's gloomier outlook
- How much is RMB undervalued? A reconsideration
- China: currency appreciation and inflation
- Berner: muddle-through or darker clouds ahead?
- Hauser's Law in taxation
- Buiter worries about central banks losing credibil...
- Bear market rally?
- Lagging behind in the Internet
- Corporate bailout history
- The logic of collective action
- Taiwan New President Inaugural Speech
- Fear no more
- Earthquake and China
- Charles Engle: oil rational bubble
- Recession call at ivory tower pace
- Lin on China's food situation
- Different measurement, different stories
- Malthus comes alive, again
- Gasoline price and mode of transportation
- Behavior modification
- Fortune misinterpreted Maddison's China prediction
- A digest of asset bubbles
- Fed and bubbles
- ECB: not the lender of last resort
- Should we have a strategic beer reserve?
- Icahn's letter to Yahoo board
- Food consumption as % income in the world
- It Is The Bio-Fuel Policy Stupid!
- Roach China Interview
- Larry Summers is being blasted
- Carbon trade: next big thing
- Bernanke on the origin of financial meltdown
- Oil speculation 101
- Another farm bill
- Inflation, price control and earthquake rescue
- Behind the food crisis
- Fitch's optimistic write-off report
- Oil price and speculation
- Martin Wolf on oil price
- Fertilizer crisis
- TED spread, still too high
- Yellen: current state of economy
- rethinking central bank doctrines
- Thaler: Framing and Nudge
- Bernanke, the Improviser
- Gary Becker: The rise of price of oil
- Frankel rebuffs White House' call on slowdown not ...
- Difficult time for American banks
- What lowest NYSE volume implies
- Alternative to buying up foreign land
- China inflation up 8.5% in April
- Krugman, oil nonbubble
- Peter Bernstein: When Should the Fed Crash the Party?
- Where is 'scale of economy' in Chinese agriculture?
- Is the Commodities Boom Driven by Speculation?
- Stiglitz on inflation targeting
- Inflation decomposition
- China inflation update
- China to buy up foreign land for food production
- SHIBOR
- Feldstein thinks recent GDP growth number misleading
- Gasoline help
- Feldstein Recession update, again
- Gasoline tax across country comparison
- Is the Fed done cutting?
- China's Real Effective Exchange Rate
- Dutch Disease?
- Inflation conundrum
- Nobel laureates on "decoupling"
- Food crisis: a supply and demand story
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