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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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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 …
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Ideological Inanity: The Republican Economic Debate
The Republican debate on the economy was staged in New Hampshire, but quickly descended into a netherworld of Republican ideological cant. Each candidate brought the idiosyncratic traits …
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Playing Washington’s Inside Game
And then there were 12. When the 435 House members and 100 senators failed in July to agree on a long-term deficit reduction plan, congressional leaders …
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Protests Grow in “Europe’s Next Greece”
“What are you protesting against?” asks a man walking home from the pub last night. “Is this about the IMF?” When I answer that yes, this is …
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Coal Ash Regulation Would Create 28,000 Jobs
Does environmental protection destroy jobs? That may be the strongest argument that the pro-pollution lobby has going for it. No one wants to endorse dirty air and water in …
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Will the US House Side With China on Currency?
If we want to bring jobs and wealth back to the United States for the 99% of us who have been under extreme pressure we're going to have to …
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“Globalization” Is Coming Home
It’s almost bedtime here in London, but Facebook is up and at it. Almost every post that appears in my news feed is about #occupywallstreet, and old and new …