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The Wizards of Ozymandias by Butler Shaffer
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Butler Shaffer [Butler Shaffer]

1Calaprice, ed., The Expanded Quotable Einstein, p. 317. 2Economist.com, October 9, 2008. 3Tim Wise, Red-Baiting and Racism: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman. August 10, 2009, redroom.com. 4New York Times.com, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
A Nation of Moochers by Sykes Charles J
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Sykes, Charles J. [Sykes, Charles J.]

Bipartisan Madness While greed undoubtedly drove much of the mortgage mess, politics constantly provided the spur. History will record that the mortgage madness and subsequent bailouts occurred under both Democratic ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Nouriel Roubini

Chapter 8 First Steps It’s a truism that crises go hand in hand with regulation and reform of the financial system. The near-death experience of a financial crisis pushes many ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Down the Up Escalator by Barbara Garson
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Barbara Garson [Garson, Barbara]

Susana Elsemeer and I are small, wisecracking, middle-aged women with almost the same Brooklyn accents. We were both single parents, and we both spent our prime years managing the family’s ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
The High-Beta Rich by Robert Frank
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Robert Frank [Frank, Robert]

Initially, Tim and Edra tried to keep the divorce civil and private. But like many divorces involving rich people, it quickly devolved into a spectacle of public attacks and money ...
( Category: Class March 26,2014 )
Dollarocracy by John Nichols
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Nichols [Nichols, John and McChesney, Robert W.]

ELECTION COVERAGE IN RECENT TIMES If we begin with the idea that the election coverage in the partisan era tended to be rich and engaging because the broader political journalism ...
( Category: Elections March 26,2014 )
The Unfair Trade by Michael J. Casey
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Michael J. Casey [Casey, Michael J.]

The Circular Relationship “I feel like a weatherman in California. Every day is sunny,” said U.S. government bond strategist William O’Donnell when I visited RBS’s Stamford trading floor on November ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
The Great Hangover by Vanity Fair
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Vanity Fair

‘There are going to be a hell of a lot of layoffs. Courses will be cut. Class sizes will get bigger,” conceded a Harvard insider, who, like every other administrator ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics by Daniel Stedman Jones
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Daniel Stedman Jones [Jones, Daniel Stedman]

To avoid misunderstanding, let me emphasize that by using the term “natural” rate of unemployment, I do not mean to suggest that it is immutable and unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
La Doctrina Del \"shock\". El Auge Del Capitalismo Del Desastre.(c.1) by Naomi Klein
epub | | | Author:Naomi Klein

( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour by Les Leopold
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Les Leopold

A blogging colleague who works in the financial industry has come up with his own one-word description of the ultra-competitive world of hedge funds: “Sociopathic.” Do’s and Don’ts Don’t ever ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
After the Music Stopped by Alan S. Blinder
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Alan S. Blinder

VARIETIES OF QUANTITATIVE EASING The Fed’s favorite unconventional weapon has been quantitative easing (QE), a term that encompasses a variety of ways to use the central bank’s balance sheet to ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
Average Is Over by Tyler Cowen
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Robert Kuttner [Kuttner, Robert]

PART THREE Chapter 7 The Moral Economy of Debt BY NOW, SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS SHOULD be evident. Reckless indebtedness leads to crisis. More often than not, the culprit is debt that ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )

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