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• America Regrets We’re Unable to Lunch Today

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  So, the nation’s weightiest campaign arms dealers waltz about the Big Easy talking like Emily Post and asking the rest of us to put our napkins in our laps. That’s the news from New Orleans, where James Carville and Mary Matilin hosted a gathering of talons and fangs called “Taking the Poison Out of ...
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• Shrink rich-poor gap, save 1.5m lives, say researchers

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 697
  Caution: a wide gap between rich and poor could be hazardous to your health. Thats the conclusion of a meta-analysis of studies that attempt to determine the connection between income inequality and overall health. The researchers who conducted the study estimate that reducing the income gap in the worlds most ...
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• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (21): Misleading Averages

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  Did you hear the joke about the statistician who put her head in the oven and her feet in the refrigerator? She said, “On average, I feel just fine.” That’s the same message as in this more widely known joke about statisticians: statistician drowning in a pond with an average depth of 3ft ( source ) And ...
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• Reid Mulls Medicare Tax Increase for High Earners

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Acting in secret, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, put together a package that includes tax increases on the wealthy to finance health plans.
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• An opportunity to look in the mirror, to more clearly see America

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 547
  Two of the most valuable magazines I read are the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.  They give me a breath of view that I’d never have otherwise, with analysis of books I’d love to read but never will find the time to do so.Here’s an example, important information for [...]
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• Twenty Years After The Wall Came Down: Rethinking The Myth of Unfettered Capitalism

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  It is said that societies that do no know history are doomed to repeat it. In some sense then it is fitting that today, November the 9th, will pass in relative obscurity for most Americans.
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• Human Rights Quote (146): Some of the Causes of Wealth Inequality, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  ( source ; more Herblock , more on “ split-level living “) Regular readers know that we often post about income inequality (which is a proxy of wealth inquality). Here ’s an overview. Although income inequality, contrary to some other kinds of inequality , isn’t a human rights violation as such (there’s ...
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• Green Shoots. For Whom?

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 664
  Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain what looks like good news. Productivity increased at a 9.5 percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2009, the largest gain since 2003. The Associated Press called it “ sizzling. ” The New York Times said we “ ...
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• Teachers candid Washington Post column casts more heat than light on the plight of Black students

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 115
  By Ronald Chennault Guest Contributor Patrick Welsh’s op/ed colu mn   in The W ashington Post  earlier this month getsoff to a bad start—a very bad one.    For starters, the piece’s very title ("Making the Grade Isnt About Race. Its About Parents.") signals where Welsh is headed, asit ...
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• DOJI: New Lows! New Lows!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  The Market had it’s best rally since 1938… I thought we could look back at the rallies during the Great Depression Bear Market (1929-1932): Nov 1929 - April 1930 (5 months rally), Dow Jones 200 to 300: +50% June 1930 - Sept 1930 (3 months rally), Dow Jones 210 to 250: +19% Dec 1930 - Feb 1931 (2 months rally), ...
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• Echoes of another great crash — and the lessons we refuse to learn!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundeconomywithjontalton/2010153841_echoes_of_another_great_crash.html Top of the News: This is the anniversary of Black Monday, the day in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. The Dow saw a record drop and things only got worse as the week progressed (there was a ...
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• Why Growing Income Inequality Is Bad for America

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  "(G)rowing income inequality is a cancer that is attacking both the economy, and the social and political fabric of our society. A look at economic history makes several things clear. ... The creation of a democratic society, built on egalitarian principles, is the only real systematic means of assuring that the ...
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• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (17): The Correlation-Causation Problem and Omitted Variable Bias, aka “Jumping to Conclusions”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  correlation vs causation ( source ) Some more detailed information after my casual remark on the correlation-causation problem. Here’s a fictitious example of what is meant by “ Omitted Variable Bias “, a type of statistical bias that illustrates this problem. Suppose we see from Department of Defense data ...
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• When Managers Manage the Data

  
  Serious Implications — Authority: 114
  Educator and writer Peter Ryley has a fine post over at Fatman on a Keyboard about how easily, and deceptively, data can be manipulated to support whatever policy management may want to enforce. His post provides a clue as to why the managers, though ignorant of the technical aspects of the business, get paid a ...
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• Memes We Should Promote: Taxation is Good

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  SoBe is at it again, with another powerhouse common sense post. Be sure to check out the graph, although I suspect most of you have seen its like before. And this is not exactly unexpected, and I bet well see more of it: Even more alarmingly, Putnam County, TN, is in such dire straights it has considered doing away ...
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• “A capitalist will sell you rope on Monday for a revolution on Tuesday in which he gets hung on Wednesday.”

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 514
  John Robb on the Citibank Plutonomy memo referenced in Capitalism: A Love Story Citibank report . In short, the idea is that globalization will continue to accelerate income concentration at the expense of the bottom 90% of the population in developed countries (winner take all, ala Taleb). The good side (as they ...
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• Vatican gives two thumbs up for Karl Marx after Darwin and Oscar Wilde

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Source: London Times Karl Marx, who famously described religion as “the opium of the people”, has joined Galileo, Charles Darwin and Oscar Wilde on a growing list of historical figures to have undergone an unlikely reappraisal by the Roman Catholic Church. L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said ...
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• Goldman Sachs Vice-Chair: Tolerate the Inequality

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 512
  Hat tip to Firedoglake, for picking this up from MSNBC and The London Guardian : In remarks that will fuel the row around excessive pay, Lord Griffiths, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said banks should not be ashamed of rewarding their staff. ...
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• Goldman Sachs Vice-Chair: People Must “Tolerate the Inequality”

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 588
  Hat tip to Firedoglake, for picking this up from MSNBC and The London Guardian : In remarks that will fuel the row around excessive pay, Lord Griffiths, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said banks should not be ashamed of rewarding their staff. ...
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• A DC insider speaks to us about “Voices of Power”

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 547
  This is someone we should listen to, with a message that must hear.  At the end are links to more information about this topic.Voices of Power: transcript of an  interview by Lois Romano with Elizabeth Warren, Washington Post, 8 october 2009 — Excerpt:ROMANO: Do you agree with Michael Moore’s basic premise that ...
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