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The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis
Washington - So let’s see: The solution to large-scale abuses of the financial system, a breakdown of the private sector, extreme economic inequality and the failure of companies and …
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Wall Street (Unlike)
Tyrants are ruthless. They throw people in jail, execute them without trial, suppress the press. They can rule for decades. They can attempt to set up dynasties. But in …
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Bathtubs for Beginners
In economics life there’s a basic conceptual distinction between a flow and a stock. A flow is a something that occurs over some period of time, like water pouring …
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Financial Giants Put New York City Cops on Their Payroll
Videos are springing up across the internet showing uniformed members of the New York Police Department in white shirts (as opposed to the typical NYPD blue uniforms) pepper spraying …
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Senate Falls Short of Votes to Take Up Obama’s Big Jobs Bill
Washington - The Democrat-led Senate effectively killed President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan Tuesday as the White House and Democratic lawmakers talked of breaking the president’s plan into …
Iraq War Lessons Learned? Keep Rumsfeld Away From All Things Defense
The roots of how the military ended up with this expensive but broken logistics disaster can be placed directly on Rumsfeld and his build up before the war.
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Violence and Bloodshed in Egypt: An Eyewitness Account
Islamist holds up cross and leads crowd in chants against military council. Image by Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Egypt, 2011. …
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Freedom Plaza Protesters Settle In
Exhilarating is the most appropriate word to describe our assembly since Thursday on Freedom Plaza — our “Tahrir Square” — in Washington, D.C., called into being by October2011.org. And …
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Gimmie Shelter: Framing the Social Architecture of Sustainability
Many of us know and love the classic Rolling Stones tune “Gimme Shelter.” We could even sing along with it loudly in the car — if not in a …
Capitalism and Poverty
Ashley Kelleher, a waitress at the International House of Pancakes in Reading, Pennsylvania, supports her family on the $900 a month she earns. According to new Census bureau data, …