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Sean Brady:  Anti-Trump Economics Professor Needs Schooling on Chinese Theft of American Intellectual Property

John Cronin

A New York City high-finance banker says President Donald Trump might actually be understating the extent of theft of U.S. companies' intellectual property by China, despite what an economics professor claimed in a recent column.

Sean Brady, formerly of Credit Suisse First Boston, argues that George Mason University economics professor Donald Boudreaux mischaracterized the president's claims about intellectual property loss to China in a recent article in TribLive.com, the web site of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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Cape County Commissioners May Declare August Seal-and-Shark Awareness Month

John Cronin

Barnstable County Commissioners worried about shark attacks this summer are going to consider declaring August "Cape Cod Seal and Shark Public Awareness Month."

Two serious shark attacks last year took place on the Outer Cape. In one, on August 15, 2018, a man was bitten and seriously injured by a great white shark not far off a beach in Truro. On September 15, 2018, a man was attacked and killed by a great white shark off a beach in Wellfleet.

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