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Auto Industry Bailout Follow Up
The NY Times is reporting that one of the things that kept the Republicans in the Senate from supporting the bailout was the UAW’s refusal to take any pay cuts until 2011. From the article, it sounds...
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Income Inequality; Rise of Wacky Politicians
Here are links to two long and thoughtful articles worth reading. The first is Timothy Noah’s ten-part (yes, 10!) piece in Slate on income inequality in America. He explores all the possible causes, in...
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Public Pensions Bankrupting San Francisco
The SF Weekly has published two long articles in the past year about how poorly run San Francisco is and how our elected officials have essentially mortgaged the city in order to provide generous...
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German Economy Is Kicking Ass
Following up on my prior post about the European economic model, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that the German economy is expected to grow 3.5% this year, its best performance since...
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The Newspaper of the Future (ie. Now)
The painful decline of the daily city newspaper is well chronicled by now, so much so that there is even an entire website dedicated to watching newspapers die. The causes are myriad (see the footnote...
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