G.O.P. Monetary Madness - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Failure Is Good - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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By next Wednesday, the so-called supercommittee, a bipartisan group of legislators, is supposed to reach an agreement on how to reduce future deficits. Barring an evil miracle - I'll explain the evil part later - the committee will fail to meet that deadline. If this news surprises you, you haven't been paying attention. If it depresses you, cheer up: In this case, failure is good.
The Zuckerberg Tax - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The White Underclass - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Let's Not Make a Deal - NYTimes.com - 0 views
What's Missing From Our 'Cognitive Toolkit'? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
What Egypt Can Teach America - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the last few weeks, but in the entire Middle East for decades. We supported corrupt autocrats as long as they kept oil flowing and weren't too aggressive toward Israel. Even in the last month, we sometimes seemed as out of touch with the region's youth as a Ben Ali or a Mubarak. Recognizing that crafting foreign policy is 1,000 times harder than it looks, let me suggest four lessons to draw from our mistakes:
The Unwisdom of Elites - NYTimes.com - 0 views
How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here - from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010. The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions.
The Hijacked Crisis - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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For the fact is that right now the economy desperately needs a short-run fix. When you're bleeding profusely from an open wound, you want a doctor who binds that wound up, not a doctor who lectures you on the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle as you get older. When millions of willing and able workers are unemployed, and economic potential is going to waste to the tune of almost $1 trillion a year, you want policy makers who work on a fast recovery, not people who lecture you on the need for long-run fiscal sustainability.