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Safeguarding Children, Do Paedophile Regulations Really Protect?

by timdrye in Crime, October 14, 2009
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This article questions the efficacy of anti-peadophile regulations that seek to protect children, but could have the un-intended consequence of protectioning insitutions and sheilding the very peadophiles themselves.

We Need The Government to Help Us to Make Every Decision

by Bob Craypoe in Government, September 3, 2009
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The sad, unfortunate truth is that most members of congress actually think that we are entirely too stupid to think for ourselves or to run our own lives. Maybe they’re right. No, I don’t think so.

Derivatives: From Options to Credit Default Swaps

by Kitty OKeefe in Economics, April 16, 2009
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How hedging portfolio risk became gambling with the global economy.

Government Regulation on Automobile MPG

by Coolio21 in Government, February 15, 2009
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I personally think that the government should in fact regulate MPG on automobiles. While this may and most likely will cause problems, I believe the pros much outweigh the cons.

Transmogrified Economics by Government Command

by Jas Writer in Government, January 14, 2009
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Consequences of what the politicians are doing and will do with the economy are discussed.

World Trade Organization and Dispute Settlement

by Ebey Soman in Organizations, November 27, 2008
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The World Trade Organization deals with the rules of trade between nations at a near-global level; it is responsible for negotiating and implementing new trade agreements, and is in charge of policing member countries’ adherence to all the WTO agreements, signed by the majority of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. So when disputes arise, the WTO has the most power and the important duty to make a ruling on the issue.

The Reign of George “W”: The Sellout of America

by Chuck S in Politics, November 18, 2008
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The current administration at work.

The Anti-Corn Law League

by balisunset in History, August 14, 2008
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A pressure group that agitated for the repeal of the tariffs protecting expensive British-grown grain from foreign competition. The growing popularity of laissez-faire economic principles opposed to government intervention in the marketplace, undermined the policy of protecting the higher price of domestically grown grain against cheaper imported grain.

Regulation on Genetically Engineered Foods

by balisunset in Law, August 14, 2008
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates most new foods, new food additives, and animal feed. FDA determines whether genetically engineered foods are safe to eat.

Solving the Banking Crisis

by Deborah J. Boyd in Economics, April 22, 2008
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For the past month or longer, we have been seeing one banking institution after another declaring that they have to write off countless losses due to the collapse of the sub-prime experiment.

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