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Gerald Epstein | Conflicts of Interest and the Financial Crisis: It’s Also the Economics Profession, Stupid!
Even the Queen of England could see that the economics profession messed up big time in the lead up to the financial meltdown. On a visit to the London …
Don’t Cut Social Security, DOUBLE It
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a debate over Social Security is heating up. This debate raises fundamental questions about what kind of society in which Americans wish …
In Mexico, EU Presents Ambitious Agenda for Cancún Climate Talks
Mexico City - In lieu of signing a treaty to curb global warming, the European Union says it will push instead for “concrete and ambitious results” in six specific …
Chile’s Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence …
Palin Revives Death Panels; Boobs Against Breast Cancer; and the Anti-Gay Bullying Crisis
Don’t look now, but Sarah Palin is back on her death panel kick, just in time for Halloween. No, really, don’t look. It just encourages the former governor of …
News in Brief: Divisive DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee to Resign, and More
DC Schools Chief Michelle Rhee to Resign
Chinese Communist Party Elders Call for Free Speech Rights
Beijing - Almost two dozen Chinese Communist Party elders have signed a petition demanding that the “black hands” of government censorship in China be dismantled in favor of the …
Whitman World: The Rich Are Different From You and Me and It’s Not the Money
“The rich are different from you and me,” novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald reputedly told his friend, Ernest Hemingway. Who is supposed to have responded, “Yeah, they have more money.” …
Connie Schultz | A Brief Tutorial on Blue-Collar Menswear
To state the obvious: I am not a man. So I don't know what it feels like to be a guy who makes his living wearing a hard hat …
Supreme Court Appears Split by Infant Vaccination Case
Washington - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard argument in a dispute over whether the family of an infant who suffered a severe reaction to a vaccine can …