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Viewpoint: Ron Klain
feature From Bloomberg.com: “What protest groups on the Left and the Right share with less-activist middle-class Americans...
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Consumer debt is not to blame
feature Given the circumstances, in fact, consumer spending is pretty consistent and pretty healthy, said James Surowiecki at The New Yorker.
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Why there won’t be a double dip
feature The economy is so lean right now that its only likely course is “continued, albeit slow, growth,” said Neil Irwin at The Washington Post.
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Viewpoint: Noreen Malone
feature From New York: “It’s part of the American way to get a lot of self-worth from your job. One of the reasons there aren’t enough of those jobs out there...
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Viewpoint: Elizabeth Dwoskin
feature From Bloomberg Businessweek: “It’s a hard-to-resist syllogism: Dirty jobs are available; Americans won’t fill them; thus, Americans are too soft...
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Viewpoint: Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas Hoenig
feature From a speech given Feb. 23: “Today I am convinced that the existence of too big to fail financial institutions poses the greatest threat to the U.S. economy. The incentives for risk-taking have not changed post-crisis...
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Dismal prospects for decent jobs
feature The few jobs the economy is managing to create are the least productive, said Edward Luce at the Financial Times.
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Why a wealth tax makes sense
feature A wealth tax would do a much better job of capturing the various forms of income enjoyed by the very rich, but often missed by our messy tax code, said Ronald McKinnon at The Wall Street Journal.
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Chasing unachievable profits
feature These unrealistic expectations come from analysts who “tend to fall in love with the companies they’re covering” and don’t forecast for the market as a whole, said Geoff Colvin at Fortune.
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A deficit of insight about debt
feature Unemployment today is a far bigger problem than the deficit, and we need to spend to fix it, said Paul Krugman at The New York Times.
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Mall rats don’t foster prosperity
feature Our promotion of consumption “as the key to health and wealth” has whittled the savings rate from an average of 9.6 percent in the 1970s to 3.3 percent in the 2000s, said Caroline Baum at Bloomberg.com.
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Viewpoint: Felix Salmon
feature From Reuters.com: “In a way it’s reassuring that America’s billionaires are still so civic-minded that they buy laws and political parties....
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Viewpoint: Kevin Carey
feature From The New Republic: “Everyone currently in the four-year higher-education business has a host of strong incentives to raise prices...
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A double standard on default
feature While corporations get praised for staging strategic defaults, homeowners are painted as “dishonorable deadbeats” if they walk away from their mortgages, said James Surowiecki at The New Yorker.
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