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Inflation Fears Rising Faster Than Prices in US and Europe
(Credit: JEMI.Source: Koha Ditore - Pristina, Kosovo.) Two questions about inflation: 1. What would the European Central Bank be doing if it were the Federal …
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Robert Reich | President Obama Must Not Go Over to the Supply Side
“I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,” President Obama said Tuesday, amid …
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100 Percent Scared: How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears
Here’s a scenario to chill you to the bone: Without warning, the network — a set of terrorist super cells — struck in northern Germany and …
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Playing With Default
The current puppet play in Congress — where Republicans sponsored a bill to raise the nation's debt ceiling only because they wanted to vote it down — would be …
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Sneaking the Plutocratic Agenda Into State Law
With widespread, entrenched joblessness in Michigan, working families there are mighty hard hit these days. But the state's new GOP governor, Rick Snyder, has reached out with a helping …
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When You Don’t Need to Worry About Facts
Masquerading behind an invocation to “wisdom” in the title, David Brooks today finds his false equivalence (see here for another example) by comparing the two parties' approaches to Medicare: …
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South Sudan’s Gathering Storm
Displaced southern Sudanese people from the border town of Abyei take refuge under trees, in Turalei, southern Sudan, June 2, 2011. (Photo: Pete Muller / The New York Times) …
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Was Fukushima Too Big to Fail?
The Three Mile Island nuclear power station, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1998. (Photo: Keith Meyers / The New York Times) When George Bush started bailing …
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Pepsi, Pot, Porn … and Politics
News sources have recently reported on an interesting assortment of materials at Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. Not only was bin Laden living far from any cave on the …
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Ask the Right Questions Before Privatizing
Elected officials need to do a better job of asking the right questions before they make a decision that we'll live with for decades. Too often, a …