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In contrast to the highly ballyhooed but Much Ado About Nothing Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, the court issued a far more meaningful ruling on forced unionization on the same day. Paul Kersey at the Illinois Policy Institute explains by email: The U.S
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Please consider Kurds’ Deputy PM Talabani Calls for Decentralized Iraq Iraq and its foreign backers must abandon a centralised system of governance if the country is to survive, Iraqi Kurdistan’s deputy prime minister has said, warning that his semi-autonomous region would gain de facto independence if the slide into chaos continues.“We have to get our minds off of this notion that a strong central government can govern this country, because it can’t,†he [Qubad Talabani] told the Financial Times in an interview. “We’re past that. We tried that.
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Coindesk reports California’s Bill to Make Bitcoin ‘Lawful Money’ Heads to Governor .
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Let’s dive into the First Quarter 2014 Third Estimate from the BEA for some weather-details. Real GDP declined 2.9 percent in the first quarter, after increasing 2.6 percent in the fourth. The downturn reflected a downturn in exports, a larger decrease in private inventory investment, a deceleration in PCE, and downturns in nonresidential fixed investment and in state and local government spending, partly offset by an upturn in federal government spending