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Viewpoint: Doug Saunders
feature From the Toronto Globe and Mail: “The world is on the threshold of what might be called ‘peak people.’ The world’s supply of working-age people...
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No reason to favor manufacturing
feature We would foster more growth with strategic economic policies, like investment in education and infrastructure, than with targeted aid to manufacturers, said Christina D. Romer at The New York Times.
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Your Prius will bankrupt the highways
feature In short, “we can’t keep relying on fuel taxes” to keep highways from crumbling, said Jordan Weissmann at TheAtlantic.com.
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Germany’s cynical fix for Europe
feature The Germans denounce other countries’ profligacy even as they cover up “their own grievous and expensive misjudgments,” said Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest.
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Viewpoint: David Sirota
feature From Salon.com: “No matter what the high-tech industry is telling Obama, there remain thousands of highly skilled engineers in America...
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Welcome to the latest bubble
feature The wizards of Wall Street once created complex securities to bet on the housing market; now they’ve turned their magic to speculating on commodities, said Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post.
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Viewpoint: Ross Douthat
feature From The New York Times: “In hereditary aristocracies, debacles tend to flow from stupidity and pigheadedness: Think of the Charge of the Light Brigade or the Battle of the Somme. In one-party states...
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Immigrants foster innovation
feature Skilled immigrants inspire our native-born scientists to be more innovative, and their contacts also help multinational firms expand overseas, said Robert Guest in Salon.com.
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Viewpoint: Tom McNichol
feature From TheAtlantic.com: “With the death and canonization of Steve Jobs and the emergence of the Jobs biography as a kind of sacred text for managers...
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How risk could jump the Atlantic
feature Why would the Fed let such a thinly capitalized bank operate in the U.S. despite its “risk to the rest of the financial system?” asked Simon Johnson at Bloomberg.com.
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David Stern misplays the NBA lockout
feature Stern has “made classic negotiation mistakes” in speaking for league owners, not so much in the terms he’s presenting “but in the way he’s presenting them,” Shelley DuBois at Fortune.
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Viewpoint: Matt Taibbi
feature From RollingStone.com: “You get busted for drugs in this country, and it turns out you can make yourself ineligible to receive food stamps. But you can be a serial fraud offender like Citigroup...
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A grim fate awaits brick-and-mortars
feature But before buying an item for a steal on Amazon, many people like to see it first at Best Buy or Target, said Megan McArdle at TheAtlantic.com.
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Why the Fed missed the crisis
feature “The Fed slept’’ for a simple reason: Its own policies helped create the bust, said Robert J. Samuelson at The Washington Post.
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