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posted on
February 8th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

Ohio Repealed Its Estate Tax This Year

Ohio repealed its estate tax effective January 1, 2013.

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posted on
February 7th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

Physical Media Still In Decline

* Barnes and Noble, the last major book store chain in the United States, has plans to shut ...

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posted on
February 6th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

How Important Is Monetary Policy?

Krugman's Case That Macroeconomic Policy Matters
[I]t’s quite possible for economies to get into a snarl that can be solved by printing more money, or having the government ...

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posted on
February 5th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

Reality Bites: Career v. Family Edition

Here is a Friday afternoon treat for you (via Marginal Revolution) addressing in an utterly practical and realistic and witty way the fundamental conundrums of modern applied feminism from Penelope ...

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posted on
February 5th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

The Great Adjustment

What big idea can sum up a whole host of the trends that are at work in our daily lives?

One way to sum it up is that we are in the midst of the "Great Adjustment." We are in the thick ...

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posted on
February 5th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

Is Marriage In Equilibrium?

No one can seriously dispute that the institution of marriage as it operates today, in 2013 in the United States, is materially different than it was in 1813 or 1913 or 1963. It is also fair ...

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posted on
February 5th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

The State of the Lutheran Church

The Lutheran church, generally, and in particular, its predominant mainline denomination, is rapidly shrinking and growing less vital in terms of nominal member participation.

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posted on
February 5th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

Reflections On Names

Should you change your name when you marry, as I did (from Willeke to Oh-Willeke)? Should you do what one of my assistants did and take as your last name your birth name, then a space, then your sp ...

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posted on
February 5th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

An Ill Omen?

This year Valentine's Day is the day after Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Surely, this doesn't bode well for an already plunging birth rate.Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2005-2013)

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posted on
January 30th, 2013
from
Wash Park Prophet
based in
Denver

Selected Factoids

* Colorado is second only to Texas in new farm creation, accounting for close to a third of new farms in the United States. New Mexico and Arizona are also states in which large numbers ...

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