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2013/06/18 16:56
2013/06/18 16:56
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President Barack Obama stated yesterday that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed in his position “longer than he [Bernanke] wanted”. Some will be probably agreeing with Bernanke (and...
2013/06/18 16:56
2013/06/18 16:56
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2013/06/18 15:09
2013/06/18 15:09
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The American Dream isn't dead. It's just moved to Denmark. Now, we like to think of ourselves as a classless society, but it isn't true today. As the Brookings Institution has pointed out, America...
2013/06/18 04:10
2013/06/18 04:10
16h
The current unemployment rate of 7.5% percent means close to 20 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed. Nobody states the obvious truth: that the marketplace has changed and there...
2013/06/17 20:06
2013/06/17 20:06
1d
Ever since the economic crisis began in 2007, there have been vigorous debates on the best ways for governments and policy makers to respond. (Obviously, some people argued that the best response was...
2013/06/17 15:14
2013/06/17 15:14
1d
The secret to what ails both parties, and our politics, is a return to the 2000s, the days of compassionate conservatism and culture-war compromises. One thing is always true in American politics:...
2013/06/15 17:06
2013/06/15 17:06
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the standard for the first 100 days in office with an unprecedented whirlwind of legislative activity that sought to make good on his pledge for “action and action...
2013/06/14 14:25
2013/06/14 14:25
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The crux of the immigration dilemma was nailed, unsurprisingly, by Milton Friedman and he summed it up in a litter he wrote in 2006, the year of his death. There is no doubt that free and open...
2013/06/12 21:42
2013/06/12 21:42
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The Fed is "printing" $85 billion a month, but inflation is falling. In fact, core inflation -- that is, excluding food and energy prices -- just hit a 50-year low. What in the name of Rudolf...
2013/06/12 14:56
2013/06/12 14:56
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Milton Friedman once said that “if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand”. I think if he were around still, he would need to revise...
2013/06/12 00:49
2013/06/12 00:49
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Fear of inflation is not grounded in facts A high rate may be a risk in the very long run – but right now the risk is that it may be too low Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for...
2013/06/11 17:20
2013/06/11 17:20
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Superman and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are both mild-mannered. They are both calm, even in the face of global disasters. They are both sometimes said to be from other planets. Superman...
2013/06/11 12:43
2013/06/11 12:43
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The current unemployment rate of 7.5% percent means close to 20 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed. Nobody states the obvious truth: that the marketplace has changed and there will...
2013/06/10 23:56
2013/06/10 23:56
7d
... from THE GREAT DEFORMATION: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman. Published by PublicAffairs.] The Social Security Act of 1935 had virtually nothing to do with ending...
2013/06/10 13:45
2013/06/10 13:45
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By Rep. STEVE KING McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON How can “comprehensive immigration reform” benefit our American children and grandchildren, who will prosper from or suffer the consequences of our...
2013/06/09 10:35
2013/06/09 10:35
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When an American explorer named William Henry Furness III arrived on the remote Pacific island of Yap at the start of the last century, he found a scarcely touched place that made his previous...
2013/06/07 13:56
2013/06/07 13:56
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Let’s just go through the hypotheses step by step. Hypothesis A: If I were to tell you that you were going to end up losing everything you had, that you were going to become destitute, that your kids...
2013/06/07 05:44
2013/06/07 05:44
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Nothing in politics is new...except for the euphemisms. Premise: in math, science and technology, learning is linear. Each idea gets built on the innovations that have gone before it. In politics and...
2013/06/06 23:29
2013/06/06 23:29
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WASHINGTON — EDITOR’S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Will immigration reform provide the workers America needs?” How can “comprehensive immigration reform” benefit our American...
2013/06/05 22:26
2013/06/05 22:26
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... Alter, author of the new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies”, is joining us as a guest blogger this week in the Editor’s Blog highlighting and discussing some key findings and...
2013/06/05 16:21
2013/06/05 16:21
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Volunteering matters to Max Hall Max Hall was appointed to the Forest Lake Human Rights Commission in March, for a three-year term.High school senior serves on Human Rights Commission The city of...