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Did the Stimulus Quench America’s Economic Thirst?

How Does Your Garden Grow - Stimulus Graphic

For the next financial crisis, what would be the best way to spend stimulus dollars? While some economists suggest a national fire sale and some pharmacists heaping helpings of hormones, an examination of how the current stimulus-dollar cascade has helped or hindered the recovery bears examination. That's what graphic artist Stanford Kay has done with buckets of data drawn from the Congressional Budget Office's scintillating bestseller from last September, "The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices," plus the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Commerce. While what strange ... Read More

Tracking Climate Change

Tracking Climate Change -- Carbon Footprint Graphic

As the international community tries to come to grips with climate change, the difficulties of reaching agreement on the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are becoming ever more apparent. One sticking point involves the relative contribution of First and Third World countries to global warming. Developing nations have contended that industrialized countries caused climate change and ought to bear the brunt of CO2 regulation. The West points at exponential growth in China and India as a reason that regulation of carbon emissions must apply across the board. For atmospheric ... Read More