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$374B of Bloody Cartel Money Laundered through U.S. Banks

I’ve been waiting for a story like this to come along. “It’s the banks laundering money for the cartels that finances the tragedy,” says Martin Woods, director of Wachovia’s anti-money-laundering unit in London from 2006 to 2009. Woods says he quit the bank in disgust after executives ignored his documentation that drug dealers were funneling

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Charter Cities seem better than foreign aid

The Atlantic has a great piece on Paul Romer and his push for “charter cities”. I agree completely with Romer that fair laws with economic liberties is the only way to support economic growth. While probably true in the old world, very few countries remain impoverished simply because of geography. Tyrants plague the people of

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Hit the Shands Cafeteria

When I worked in the HPNP building, friends and I frequented the Shands cafeteria. Their painful menu page drove me to hack together a nicer version with accompanying RSS feed. It still works!

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California’s upcoming Cannabis ballot initiative

In November Californians will see on their ballot the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. The act would basically “legalize” cannabis—all involved in such an industry would remain in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act, and subject to the whims of the federal DEA and Dept. of Justice—for adults 21 and up,

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Afghanistan in the 1960s

What could have Afghanistan become without decades of war?

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