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Outdated economists are failing us
feature Most economists still cling to ideas that no longer hold true in our “overconnected world,” said Bill Davidow at TheAtlantic.com.
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Give public Internet a chance
feature Municipalities are being thwarted by a growing number of state laws, pushed by powerful telecom interests, that make launching public networks all but impossible, said Susan P. Crawford at Bloomberg.com.
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Viewpoint: Lucy Kellaway
feature From the Financial Times: “The young can’t advance because everywhere they find that my complacent generation is in situ. The only way of solving the problem...
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Tearing down houses to save our cities
feature In cities across the country, vacant and vandalized properties are choking the life out of communities that are otherwise poised to recover, said Jim Rokakis at The Washington Post.
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Business columns: Why the stimulus fell short
feature It’s wrong to say that the stimulus failed completely, but we need to learn our lesson about “which policies work and which don’t,” said Michael Grabell at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: Rich Karlgaard
feature From The Wall Street Journal: “Businesses located in places where success is the norm, and innovation is built into the ecology...
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The robber barons of Silicon Valley
feature Today’s tech entrepreneurs talk of lofty ideals, but they display a “ruthlessness rivaling history’s greatest industrial bullies.”
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Viewpoint: Bert Stratton
feature From The New York Times: “I’m a landlord in Lakewood, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb near where I live that is predominantly prewar apartment buildings...
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Viewpoint: Devin Leonard and Romesh Ratnesar
feature From Bloomberg Businessweek: “Here’s a message for Wall Street: Heal thyself. The history of American business is rife with examples of industries that failed to respond to public pressure...
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Hold the line on insider trading
feature More importantly, insider trading gives those in the know incentives to hide information from corporate boards, and from the public, to maximize their own trading profits, said Larry Harris at the Los Angeles Times.
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How to fix the housing mess
feature This approach would cost about $350 billion, but it “will be even costlier to do nothing,” said Martin S. Feldstein at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: James Surowiecki
feature From The New Yorker: “From the perspective of the economy as a whole, small companies are not the real drivers of growth. One can see this by looking...
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China confronts competition
feature The country’s “soaring wage rates” are causing companies to flee to places with cheaper labor, like Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia, said Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest.
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Why we need the Volcker rule
feature To see why we need the Volcker rule, look no further than the Citigroup settlement last week for its “brazenly fraudulent” banking behavior, said James B. Stewart at The New York Times.
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