InBev weighs options for beer merger
By Julie MacIntosh in New York and Neil Hume in London

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The large Belgian brewer InBev could attempt to force Anheuser-Busch to the bargaining table or strike [...]

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Libertarians
The right flank
Bob Barr and the Libertarian challenge to John McCain

JOHN MCCAIN likes to style himself as a successor to a Republican president from a century ago: Teddy Roosevelt. Like Mr Roosevelt, Mr McCain presents himself as a tough type not afraid to wield American power abroad. He is also ready to use the [...]

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China’s Katrina Shows Post-Communism No Big Easy
Commentary by Amity Shlaes
— The picture of the angry parents protesting the collapse of the school in Wufu is so sad that you get the impression there could be nothing like it. But then you remember something like it in, of all [...]

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U.S. Economy: Home Resales Decline, Inventories Jump (Update3)

May 23 (Bloomberg) — Sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. fell in April and the supply of unsold properties reached a record, signaling no [...]

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Trichet Says Shocks Aren’t Over for Europe’s Economy, WSJ Says
May 24 (Bloomberg) — European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet said the shocks to Europe’s economy from financial market turmoil and rising food and commodity prices aren’t over, the Wall Street Journal reported, [...]

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Dollar Falls for a Third Week as Oil Increases, Home Sales Fall
May 24 (Bloomberg) — The dollar declined for a third consecutive week against the euro, the longest losing streak in two months, as the U.S. housing slump and record crude oil prices [...]

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U.S. Stocks Fall the Most in Four Months, Led by Financials
By Lynn Thomasson
May 24 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks had the biggest weekly drop in almost four months on concern the economy will weaken as banks and brokerages face deeper losses and record energy costs [...]

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Men and Woman of the CenturyJude Wanniski

Memo To: Walter Isaacson, Time
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Charter Communities
Arnold Kling
Robert Nelson, a public policy professor at the University of Maryland, gave me a copy of an argument he submitted on behalf of a Montgomery County neighborhood (his) that was attempting to incorporate in order to have jurisdiction over some services.
Some government functions, such as water and sewer, police [...]

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The Wrong (Trade) War
By Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON — Almost everyone wishes for a renaissance of American manufacturing, and none have said so more louder than the Democratic presidential candidates and Democratic members of Congress. The trouble is that their deeds don’t match their words. They have blamed trade for almost anything that might [...]

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