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Honduras Might Try Charter Cities

From the Charter Cities blog: The government in Honduras is convinced that a charter city could be the safe playing field, with new rules, where Hondurans of all backgrounds can come together and put their skills to work with the financial resources, expertise, and technology available in the rest of the world. I first read

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The Hard Road Ahead

I’m starting to believe the only way out of this recession and national deficit is through tough choices that offend the ideologies of every political party: higher taxes for everyone spending cuts, including the military bailouts for state/local safety nets that ease real human suffering, not select industries finding and migrating to foreign aid measures

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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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