So recently I attended an event where eminent Harvard historian, Niall Ferguson, and senior fellow at Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, Jeff Madrick, spoke about the current economic crisis.
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Posts Tagged ‘ economy ’
Niall Ferguson on the Economy
The Death of a Newspaper, the Tumult of an Industry
The world of print journalism will never be the same again. After 150 years of service to the Denver community, the Rocky Mountain News announced Thursday that their final issue would be Friday (February 27, 2009). Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the newspaper had been in financial trouble for months due...
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One Obama Over the Cuckoos Nest
President Obamas address to Congress tonight fits the definition of insanity quite nicely: he keeps repeating his economic policy over and over expecting the American people to change their opinions. Reiterating, yet again, the benefits of his plan as well as the urgency of the moment, I felt like a fourth grader being lectured...
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Hopeism, Obama, and $1,000,000,000,000 deficit
President Obama is set to announce a bold plan to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years. Mr. Obama, stop playing the American people for fools. Adidas may claim that Impossible is Nothing, but I doubt that even Adidas would endorse such a unrealistic plan. So to those of you...
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You must never say the N-word!
It was with incredible shock that I heard Senator Dodd casually mention the n-word while appearing as a guest on “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” a Bloomberg Television talk show that airs on Friday afternoon and Sunday morning. That a man could so audaciously use such a powerful, aggressive word in seemingly polite...
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