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In support of eliminating the penny – they cost roughly 2.5x as much to make as they’re worth. The problem is called “seigniorage” and it’s true for the US nickel as well.
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Dave Marash steps down from Al Jazeera English’s DC bureau. Interesting, complicated reasons why.
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The US intelligence community is starting to take open source (i.e., unclassified, publicly available) intel more seriously. But the funding still favors classified material, and the majority of FBI agents don’t have internet access
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Excellent summary of Berkman/Annenberg’s Media Re:public conference by my friend Mark Jones, a senior editor at Reuters.