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Chipotle is a lot like Apple
feature What Steve Jobs did with the cellphone, Chipotle founder Steve Ells has done with fast food, said Matthew Yglesias at Slate.com.
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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: 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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China’s inevitable crisis
feature Subsidized companies keep building “unnecessary and unprofitable” factories, and government-directed banks keep pumping out money that will be wasted, said Michael Schuman at Time.com.
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The myth of strategic defaults
feature The threat of “walkaway” homeowners has been vastly overblown, said Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times.
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Outdated economists are failing us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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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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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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Reaganomics won’t help us now
feature Republican candidates vying to claim Reagan’s mantle “misunderstand the premises” of his policies, said Bruce Bartlett at The Washington Post.
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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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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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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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