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Using international tax reform to delay HTF insolvency is bad policy, as it would require either a tax hike or the breaking of House rules.

A voting system error altered the outcome of a local election in new jersey. monmouth countys election system said votes were submitted two times which affected a race there. omar, what was the error and what happened? >> basically they said this goes back to last july. they were reinstalling some software and there was an error that missed a step that would have caught double counting of votes. that didnt happen. we ended up with a situation where a technician inadvertently double counted votes...

Many people confuse net zero with carbon neutral, but they are not the same. Here’s why.

Carbon offsets allow companies or individuals to feel better about polluting without actually doing anything about those emissions.

There is no doubt that the production of goods and services has become increasingly globalized since the 1970s, but this trend is one that is hard to measure. Ideally, the best way would be to use firm-level trade and census data across countries, but such data are very rare.

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Joined those ranks of people having to take part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs for what we call economic reasons. they wanted full-time jobs. a lot of those were contractors that werent paid and furloughed workers that werent paid. and so some of the gains that we saw were actually these people taking part-time jobs to offset what they were losing elsewhere. so there is a little bit of double counting in there. we also saw an increase in the unemployment rate for government workers. that p...

Were back with the "hardball" roundtable. ayesha, tell me something i dont know. >> the fbi had been telling it the public and congress that nearly, there were nearly 8,000 phones that were encrypted and they couldnt access potential evidence in criminal investigations due to this. it turns out the number of phones theyre dealing with that have encryptions are a fraction of that and theyve been double counting or counting duplicates and so that information the fbi just released that information ...

Larry. i went back and looked at some of the economic assumptions that the obama administration made in its first couple of years. i want to say, their assumed growth rate was more than 4.5%. this is the first administration in history -- it was the first decade not to have a 3% growth rate, yet they were promising us for a half% growth. if larry wants to talk about unreasonable assumptions, we talk about my 3% growth rate and has four and a half, and well talk about who actually is closer to re...

Fortunately lower than that. this may be the result of double counting as people relay what they have seen to the central command post. its possible that more than one law enforcement person reported the same victim so that the number may be lower than 13, the law enforcement officials out there have declined so far to give a specific number. we have been told earlier 13. now the people were talking to say they believe the numbers going to probably turn out to be 10. but we still cant say defend...