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Welcome to the 2013 CAR Conference in Louisville
For the latest up-to-date information about panels, speakers and special events at the conference, please visit our conference website.Hotel InformationThe conference is taking place at the Hyatt Regency Louisville, 311 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY 40202. RegistrationRegistration opens Wednesday at 3 p.m. and will be open Thursday, Friday and Saturday on the 2nd floor of…
Read MoreCovering the repurchase market and shadow banking
Veteran journalist Mary Fricker has put together a guide for the Reynolds Business Journalism Center on how to cover the repurchase market and shadow banking, which she says is “inherently unstable. It triggered the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008. It’s a key reason that our recovery is weak. Yet in 2008, when the financial…
Read MoreCalifornia, Nevada take opposite stances when disciplining the same doctor
“Nevada doesn’t disclose its response to a doctor who admitted to battery on a woman, California pulled his license.”
Read MoreOSHA assessing state safety offices’ effectiveness
“Problems in Nevada four years ago have federal officials still trying to determine whether states with their own workplace safety agencies are as good as OSHA.”
Read MoreBitter Pill: Why medical bills are killing us
“Breaking these trillions down into real bills going to real patients cuts through the ideological debate over health care policy. By dissecting the bills that people like Sean Recchi face, we can see exactly how and why we are overspending, where the money is going and how to get it back. We just have to…
Read MoreThe Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
“Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American ‘stomach share.’”
Read MoreImmigration reform and private prison cash
“Key lawmakers in the immigration debate are among the top recipients of campaign contributions from the prison industry”
Read MoreHerbalife cozies up with UCLA
“UCLA’s Medical School has an unusually close relationship with Herbalife, which constantly promotes its connection to doctors there. Where do sensible ideas end and the shilling for Herbalife begin?”
Read MoreStar Watch: Troy Woodruff ordered bridge rebuilt to benefit his family, records suggest
“To help out his family, a state highway official last year ordered construction supervisors to redo the approaches to a bridge over Interstate 69, despite objections from the project supervisor — at a cost to Indiana taxpayers of $770,444.”
Read More“Nonviolent” work release centers house murderers, other violent criminals
“A Tampa Bay Times’ investigation found 20 murderers housed at work release centers across the state, including one who lives at the facility next to where Tifft was speaking. While work release centers are often described as a way for nonviolent offenders to transition back into society, a Times’ analysis found that hundreds of inmates…
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