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Reuse
Original material in a post (including comments to that post) on this site is under copyright © of the author. Anyone may reuse portions of a post — a chart and/or a text excerpt, but not the entirety — that appears on this site provided (s)he (1) does not alter the material quoted and (2) attributes the use by hyper-linking to the URL on this site where it originally appeared (for online reuse) or printing the blog’s name, “The Incidental Economist,” (for print reuse) and (in either online or print reuse) citing the post’s author by full name as it appears in the by-line. Permission for use in any other manner must be obtained from the post’s author.
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