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Lynk on Labor Law & Inequality
Michael S. Lynk (University of Western Ontario) has posted 'Labour Law and the New Inequality' on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Rising economic inequality in Canada and the Western world has become an unspoken but influential political theme over the...

McCall Presents Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality Today at NYU
Leslie McCall (Northwestern University, Department of Sociology) presents Americans' Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality at NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance...

How income inequality is changing
Bill Easterly thinks that inequality is fractal:

Tax Profs at Law, Poverty, & Economic Inequality Conference
Tax Prof presentations at the Law, Poverty, & Economic Inequality Conference last week at Valparaiso: Kimberly Brooks (McGill University Faculty of Law), Approaches to International Redistribution: Is there Any Role for Tax Systems?: The prediction that nation states will be...

ECONOMICS AND MEDDLING: This does not strike me as a story about how income inequality caused the
ECONOMICS AND MEDDLING: “This does not strike me as a story about how income inequality caused the financial crisis. Rather, this is a story about how policies intended to reduce inequality had the unintended consequence of precipitating America’s worst economic slump since the Depression...

McCluskey on Economic Inequality & Marrriage Tax Reform
Martha T. McCluskey (University at Buffalo - Law School) has posted Razing the Citizen: Economic Inequality, Gender and Marriage Tax Reform (Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Bailout Bill HR124

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Bayer CropScience AG
alleging farmers suffered economic losses after Bayer's biotech Liberty Link rice was released into the food supply and countries banned US rice.

Steel Dynamics, Inc
STLD

Steel Dynamics, Inc
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Fosamax
Possible Link with Esophageal Cancer

BPA
New Study Shows Link to Diabetes and Heart Disease

Remicade, Enbrel, Humira, Cimzia
FDA Investigating Link to Cancers