belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu - 5/28/2009
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The headline of this post is not meant to be ironic. Despite all the hand-wringing in the press and the blogosphere about a political “give-away” of allowances for the cap-and-trade system in the Waxman-Markey bill voted out of committee last week, the politics of cap-and-trade ...
online.wsj.com - 5/23/2009
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Orszag on the Bill White House budget director
Peter Orszag, House Budget Committee, March 3, 2009: QUESTION:...
[L]et me turn to the issue you were just discussing about global warming, because I believe that the vote that we will take on this budget ...
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David Wessel on Obama and the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
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Economist's View —
... Accidental Billionaire - Review - Claude S. Fischer
The Wonderful Politics of Cap-and-Trade: A Closer Look at Waxman-Markey - Robert Stavins ...
links for 2009-05-29
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Claude S. Fischer: Accidental Billionaire
Rob Stavins: The Wonderful Politics of Cap-and-Trade: A Closer Look at Waxman-Markey ...
The Cap-and-Trade Bill
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
Harvard's Rob Stavins is Pro. Harvard's Marty Feldstein is Con.
Stavins: Waxman-Markley is Not a "Massive Corporate Give-Away"
Economist's View —
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The Wonderful Politics of Cap-and-Trade: A Closer Look at Waxman-Markey, by
Robert Stavins: ...Now, let’s go back to the hand-wringing in the press and
blogosphere about the so-called massive political “give-away” of allowances.
Perhaps unintentionally, there has been some misleading press coverage,
suggesting that up to 75% or 80% of the allowances are given away to private
industry as a windfall over the life of the program, 2012-2050 (in contrast with ...
Stavins: Waxman-Markey is Not a Massive Corporate Give-Away
Economist's View —
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The Wonderful Politics of Cap-and-Trade: A Closer Look at Waxman-Markey, by
Robert Stavins: ...Now, let’s go back to the hand-wringing in the press and
blogosphere about the so-called massive political “give-away” of allowances.
Perhaps unintentionally, there has been some misleading press coverage,
suggesting that up to 75% or 80% of the allowances are given away to private
industry as a windfall over the life of the program, 2012-2050 (in contrast with ...
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