Submitted by Econbrowser
Sixteen entries in the 2008 NCAA Bracket Econbrowser Challenge correctly picked all of the Final Four teams in the NCAA basketball tournament, including our two leaders who also correctly picked all of the Elite Eight finalists.

Team Rankings seems still to favor Kansas, though I must say North Carolina has been looking pretty good.

Team
Finals
Champ

Kansas
54.5%
31.61%

UCLA
45.5%
18.93%

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
few interesting real estate stories:
1. Wall Street Journal–These days, bankers and mortgage companies often find that by the time they get the keys back from foreclosed homes, embittered homeowners have stripped out appliances, punched holes in walls, dumped paint on carpets and, as a parting gift, locked their pets inside to […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
At a time when saying anything good about fossil fuels is like declaring war on the environment, it may seem like wishful thinking to press for an expansion of U.S. oil refining capacity. Yet it is precisely this sort of thinking that is necessary if we are to make use of a […]

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