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Business columns: Netflix shows the way on CEO pay
feature As Netflix has prospered, so has Hastings—but in tandem with other shareholders rather than at their expense, said Chris O’Brien in MercuryNews.com.
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Business columns: 9/15 may loom larger than 9/11
feature When the history books are written, 9/15—marking the Sept. 15, 2008, collapse of Lehman Brothers—will likely be the more important date, said Gideon Rachman in the Financial 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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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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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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Why I’ll never go to Davos
feature As long as leaders are unwilling to “give up control of their narratives,” collaboration on major global problems will remain impossible, said Mohamed El-Erian at Reuters.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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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “If I had to make a 50-year bet on any region of the world, I’d pick the United States....
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Breaking cable TV’s power
feature Why is cable television’s monopoly so stubborn?
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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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Banning banker bonuses
feature No one employed by a company that “would require a taxpayer-financed bailout if it failed” should ever get a bonus, period, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb at The New York Times.
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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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