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• in Politics
  What Mitt Romney Really Said
  When Mitt Romney described the 47 percent, he was saying what he thinks about Democrats. He’s not alone...
  by jimmyzuma / on Sep 20, 2012
• in Politics
  Americans Need Jobs
  Unemployment is stuck at 9.5% and Americans are hurting. The federal government needs to stop playing politics long enough to address the issues.
  by thinkster / on Aug 25, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “economic policy”

 

• Letters: Matters of life, death and economics

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  It is the first duty of governments to protect the health and wellbeing of citizens. It is a priority objective of the EU, enshrined in legislation. Surveys show it is top of peoples concerns. So when we read that Nordic politicians are not surprised by the work of David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu ( Austerity kills , ...
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• The Great Gatsbys world is every bit as unequal as Britain under the coalition | Aditya Chakrabortty

  
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  The wealthy in America and Britain no longer resemble the prewar elite, but appearances cannot mask how cut off they are from the rest of us "Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and ...
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• Cognitive Biases Are Bad for Business

  
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  The conventional wisdom in classical economics is that we humans are “rational actors." But any notion that we are, in fact, rational, was blown away by the work of Kahneman and Tversky on cognitive biases. Nowhere is this irrationality more problematic than in the corporate world where bad decisions can wreak ...
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• Kuttners "Debtors Prison": A Much-Needed Brief Against Austerity

  
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• Tax avoidance: how to change corporate behaviour

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  It is up to consumers and voters to change the lousy behaviour of big banks, energy giants and internet multinationals. They will not change by themselves Last week, I was waiting in the queue at the butcher while an elderly lady was being served. Clearly, she was not that well-off and chose the cheapest cuts of ...
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• Seven Ways to Honor the Mothers of America

  
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• China Investigates Liu Tienan, an Official Challenged by a Journalist

  
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  China’s top anti-corruption agency said that it was investigating a senior economic policy maker, an abrupt turn in a case that had openly pitted him against an investigative journalist. See more here: China Investigates Liu Tienan, an Official Challenged by a Journalist
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• Bank of Japan takes big risks to revive the economy

  
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  Author: Kazuo Ueda, University of Tokyo Japanese asset prices have responded in a surprising way to the announcement of a policy package by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the new leadership of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) — they have gone up. In November last year, before Japan’s election, Abe declared that he ...
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• Postal union seeks unholy alliance of left and right to block Royal Mail sale

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  CWU seeks help of rural Tory MPs, Countryside Alliance and even Ukip as the prospect of privatisation looms More than 100 postboxes were painted gold to celebrate Britains medal haul at the 2012 Olympics, but those vivid symbols and thousands of others may not be British for much longer. Three decades after Margaret ...
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• Its not the deficit that will haunt our children: its unemployment

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Forget talk of the burden of government debt on future generations. Look at how austerity scars young people now Austerians, as supporters of fiscal austerity have become known, frequently bemoan the hefty burden on future generations of the debts run up by spendthrift governments in battling the banking collapse. ...
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• Royal Mail could be sold to foreign buyer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Business minister Michael Fallon warns union that ownership could go overseas if it continues to oppose flotation The Royal Mail could fall into foreign hands if trade unions continue to fight its flotation on the London Stock Exchange, the business minister, Michael Fallon, has warned. Fallon said the government ...
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• Costello again

  
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  The Final Report of the Queensland Commission of Audit, headed by Peter Costello, has been released. It largely abandons the claims made in the Interim Report, suggesting that the state’s fiscal problems are the result of irresponsibility on the part of the previous government. To its credit, the Commission ...
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• The Euro Loses a Big Supporter and Gains a New Neo-Con

  
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  Album / Oronoz/Newscom Definition of an American neo-conservative: A liberal mugged by reality. The new poster child for the budding European neo-conservative: Oskar Lafontaine? Lafontaine, German history majors will recall, is the Social Democrat and former German finance minister who helped launch the European ...
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• Tick-Tick-Tick: Do 60 Minutes and Americas Billionaires Want Us to Beg?

  
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• We Need More Officer Katies and Fewer RoboCops

  
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• New Era Windows Cooperative Is Open for Business in Chicago

  
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• "Debt Without Drowning" by Paul De Grauwe

  
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  Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be sustained without a fiscal union. But the eurozone’s leaders have not heeded their advice – and the consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. Europe now faces a difficult choice: either fix this fundamental design flaw and move ...
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• "The Lessons Of The North Atlantic Crisis For Economic Theory And Policy" by Joseph Stiglitz

  
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  The world has seen a hundred financial crises in the past three decades. In this column, Nobelist Joe Stiglitz argues that we could have done much more to prevent this crisis and to mitigate its effects. Looking ahead, we can do much more to prevent the next one. This is a chance to revolutionise flawed economic ...
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• Egypt’s new economic ministers prioritise IMF deal, Islamic finance

  
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  Egypt’s new economic policy aims at reducing budget deficit. Egypt’s newly-appointed economy ministers highlight the importance of continuing the efforts exerted by their predecessors to ensure Egypt’s economic future in their first public statements on Wednesday. According to Finance Minister Fayad Abdel-Moneim ...
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• Fallow on austerity

  
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  Writing the the Herald , Brian Fallow questions the governments push for austerity : As we await another miserly Budget from Bill English we are entitled to wonder whether the Government is overdoing the fiscal discipline. Has its aversion to debt changed from prudent caution into a kind of irrational phobia? We ...
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