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September 12, 2011
The pundit universe was afire this past week over Gov. Perry's characterizing Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, one of the oldest forms of financial fraud, well-defined.
The Boston Globe, in its review of a book titled 'The Looting of Social…
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September 8, 2011
The huge noise you just heard was the sound of … nothing.
A bit of nothing that was quite something - the latest job numbers. Total jobs gained: zero. Zilch. Nada. Dictionary.com lists 25 such synonyms for such a monumental failure. That's not even…
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September 2, 2011
Sad to say, this isn't shocking news. The pesident's first official, post-vacation act on Monday was nominating Alan Krueger, a Princeton academic, to head his council of economic advisers (a herd of other academics.)
And who wouldn't? It might…
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August 25, 2011
The Politico headline read: "Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero." They could have shortened that sentence to "Elites pine" or more likely to "Elites freak the heck out." Because it's not just the conservative cognoscenti, it's all of them. The…
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August 4, 2011
Happy Birthday to me,Happy Birthday to me,I'm narcissistic you see,Happy birthday to me.It's the perfect romance: a man who loves to be loved and, well, his biggest fan - himself. It's hard to tell if we should mark August 4 as Barack Obama's…
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July 13, 2011
On the FOX financial show, "Cashin' In," on July 11, a discussion broke out over a new scheme to subsidize employers' hiring of ex-convicts. The plan would give employers $2,400 in tax credits and some new, free, government insurance against theft…
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June 9, 2011
Welcome to "recovery summer." Oops, that was last year when journalists told us that prosperity was just around the corner.We turned that corner and took a huge left, but the economy didn't. It went south. Now, the greatest nation on earth is…
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April 20, 2011
It's been two weeks since George Soros bought himself a major economic conference designed to remake the entire global economy. Just because the event received little major news attention, it still had an impact Americans might be reeling from for…
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December 29, 2008
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Like many people, Ben Stein was assured that Bernard Madoff "never lost money" ("They Told Me That Madoff Never Lost Money," Dec. 28). Unlike many people, Ben Stein…
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December 18, 2008
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Bravo for Roger Cohen's explanation that market economies work by creating new firms, new products, new processes – and that these creations are both the source of our…
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