Washington State currently has no personal income tax, a feature that has helped account for the massive flow of workers into the state over the last few years.
Much of the traffic flowinto New York from the west passes over Cleveland, and sometimes planes in Ohio and other nearby spots have a hard time getting an opening in the conga line of jets overhead.
Naturally, it is important that such steps do not smack of "capital controls" or other draconian measures that could cast a shadow over our common desire to preserve the free flow of private capital into and out of the United States.
The Economist used fund flow data provided by Morningstar to determine if investors put money into asset classes that had performed well over the previous year.
The backwater levee is designed to keep water from backing into the Yazoo River delta and is designed lower than the mainline levee so that water can flowover it.
Over a century, engineers altered the flow of the Mississippi River, the swamps shrank and then got cut into Swiss cheese to make room for shipping lanes and pipelines and levees.