mobi, epub, pdf |ru | 2012-03-25 | Author:Paul Krugman

CHAPTER EIGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFICIT? There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we’re taking a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Thomas Geoghegan

5 Clash of Civilizations Meanwhile, America had become dark. There was the nightmare of Bush v. Gore. We did not seem like a democracy. We had big tax cuts for ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Marrs, Jim [Marrs, Jim]

OBAMA’S SCHOOL TALK When kindergartners in B. Bernice Young School sang a medley of two short songs praising the president in February 2009, alarm bells went off among many who ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Robert Guest

As apartheid rules became progressively harder to enforce, black incomes began to catch up with white ones. Between 1975 and 1990, average real black earnings in manufacturing rose by almost ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Paul Krugman

Argentina isn’t an Asian country. (Duh.) But Argentina had an Asian-style crisis in 2002, one that offered a painfully clear demonstration of how widely praised economic policies can lead a ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Schiff, Peter [Schiff, Peter]

Hurting the Vulnerable Think about the way Social Security pays out benefits: once you retire, SSA determines your monthly benefit, and then pays that to you every year (adjusted for ...

mobi |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Stiglitz, Joseph E. [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

UNMASKING THE DEFICIT AGENDA: PRESERVING AND EXTENDING INEQUALITIES It might seem strange, in a country where tax rates at the top are already lower than they are in most of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Importance of Meaningful Work Nearly every study of happiness underscores the importance of meaningful work to personal well-being. Unemployment is the single largest factor in the public’s unhappiness and ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Collier, Paul [Collier, Paul]

Are There Investment Opportunities? Could the reason why investment in Africa is so modest simply be because it does not offer a high return? After all, investors vote with their ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Bonner, William [Bonner, William]

Tran Quang Co put him on the spot: Mr. MacNamara admits his mistakes, which we admire, but he unfortunately attributes most mistakes to misjudgments and miscalculations. But we must also ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Thomas Frank

CHAPTER 8 Say, Don’t You Remember “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” was the so-called anthem of the Depression, a transcendent expression—if such a thing is possible—of the hopeless disillusionment ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-19 | Author:Steven Rattner

The head butting led Ron reluctantly to conclude that Fiat and the UAW would never reach agreement on their own. He summoned both parties to Washington and installed them in ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Michael Lewis

CHAPTER SIX Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...

mobi |eng | 2001-03-28 | Author:Kerr

Zoning – the political and social science of making the most efficient use of different types of land – is a crucial skill that Japan's bureaucrats have failed to master. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Lewis, Michael [Lewis, Michael]

† Brian Lenihan is also, as Joan Burton pointed out, tricky. It’s racing up on eight in the evening when I meet him in a Department of Finance conference room. ...