It turns out, she writes, that the whole diagnosis is basedon one experiment from the 1960s in which doctors strapped 50 monkeys onto a track and slammed them into a wall at high speed.
That experiment was basedonthe long-held notion that a pandemic strain is more likely to emerge when a flu virus mixes its genes with another virus in an animal host, such as a pig.
Rather than judge the Leno experimentbased purely on ratings as TV programming has historically been measured, NBC brass has said it's focused on its margins.
The Oregon experiment, led by the talented MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, is basedon a situation in Oregon in 2008 when a limited number of Medicaid spots were given out by lottery.
The commission's own numbers, partly basedon an unhappy Swedish experiment with an FTT from 1984-91, suggest that derivatives traders could relocate as much as 90% of their business outside any tax zone.
Basedon that experiment, economist Robert Shapiro of Sonecon estimates that about 56% of the value of reduced swipe fees will reach the final consumer.