The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation reads the Internet so that you don’t have to, sharing a short list of curated blog posts for your Friday reading.
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January 11, 2013
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#MinttheCoin? Greg Ip of The Economist discusses the economics of minting a platinum coin to circumvent the debt ceiling.
Are there too many malls in America? Here’s what a Silicon Valley legend thinks, courtesy of The Atlantic Cities.
James Pethokoukis finds “8 ways to make the US economy more productive and competitive.”
The new Index of Economic Freedom is out, and America has now dropped to No. 10 worldwide thanks to its regulatory inefficiencies.
Former NCF Fellow Mark Perry analyzes the role that demographics play in income inequality. Here’s the key quote: “Because the key income-determining demographic variables change over a person’s life, so does income mobility.”
What does a world with 6% growth in China look like?
Ray Kurzweil finds 5 reasons to look on the bright side this year.