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2013/06/20 11:07
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The fatalists, who contend that rising inequality is the ineluctable result of a changing economy, and the redistributionists, who blame a skewed tax system and lethargic government. Perhaps...
2013/06/20 11:07
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2013/06/19 21:53
2013/06/19 21:53
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... with Saudi Arabia. The Persian Gulf has “strategic significance” for Iran, as well as political and economic importance, Rowhani said Monday at his first news conference as...
2013/06/19 21:34
2013/06/19 21:34
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... with Saudi Arabia. The Persian Gulf has “strategic significance” for Iran, as well as political and economic importance, Rowhani said Monday at his first news conference as...
2013/06/19 20:45
2013/06/19 20:45
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Loading Slideshow Immigration reform will destroy the economy Coulter doesn't just think immigration reform will hurt the economy -- a...
2013/06/19 16:43
2013/06/19 16:43
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... bumpy start, that has included typical Russian corruption scandals, construction delays and political intrigues, the formerly sleepy dacha community of Skolkovo, just beyond the Moscow Ring...
2013/06/19 15:54
2013/06/19 15:54
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... gotten us all to hold hands as Tennesseans walk down the shining path of a bold new green economy. Except that this bill, devised by Republican leaders in the state comptroller’s office,...
2013/06/19 14:40
2013/06/19 14:40
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... networks of wealth and power. As Adam Smith wrote: “Civil government, as far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich...
2013/06/19 14:19
2013/06/19 14:19
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... file photo. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate immigration bill grows the economy, cuts deficits, raises wages, legalizes eight million undocumented workers, makes the...
2013/06/19 11:24
2013/06/19 11:24
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Miliband of procrastinating and mulling too long over strategic decisions. Photograph: Kate Peters/Institute for New Statesman. “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the leader of the Labour Party,”...
2013/06/19 03:17
2013/06/19 03:17
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Daniel Loeb took his team to Japan in April 2012 to determine if the world’s third-largest economy was ready for investment. The central bank had set a new 1 percent inflation goal, an...
2013/06/19 00:43
2013/06/19 00:43
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... consulting giant PwC projects lower overall growth in medical costs for next year, even as the economy gains strength and millions of uninsured people receive coverage under President Barack...
2013/06/18 22:16
2013/06/18 22:16
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For all that, Waring points to a status quo: Men dominate most institutions that rule the economy. “It’s a disappointment to still find ourselves in a pretty barren desert,” Waring, 60, a...
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2013/06/18 17:11
2013/06/18 17:11
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... became synonymous with the struggle against apartheid [AFP] Professor Daryl Glaser, a political analyst at the University of the Witwatersrand, agrees, saying the biggest single...
2013/06/18 09:39
2013/06/18 09:39
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If you’re familiar with the evolution of franchise laws in Canada, you might recall that politically conservative, business-friendly Alberta was the first province to introduce legislation, in the...
2013/06/18 07:28
2013/06/18 07:28
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... finally do it, this would undoubtedly be a game-changing reform," Carlos Elizondo, a political analyst at Mexico's CIDE college and research institute, told the Journal. "That's the...
2013/06/18 05:16
2013/06/18 05:16
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to elevate the role of women in the world’s third-largest economy. He might start with his own party. Abe called for women filling 30 percent of senior...
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2013/06/18 05:06
2013/06/18 05:06
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Yves here. While readers may think development policy has limited relevance to US and advanced economy readers, the IMF and World Bank have been and continue to be vehicles to make the world,...
2013/06/17 16:47
2013/06/17 16:47
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... to combine and focus his interests in space and natural resources with his business and political acumen towards an old goal: bringing the nearly infinite resources of space into the...
2013/06/17 11:56
2013/06/17 11:56
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... the coming weeks, but their job prospects appear bleak - the latest sign of a troubled Chinese economy. * Only months before Americans start buying coverage through new state insurance...
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2013/06/17 08:16
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... reduce volatility,” said Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc. in New York. “Instead it’s increasing volatility and been counterproductive. Clearly...