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Elizabeth Warren: Financial Rules 'Literally Don't Work Anymore,' Regulations Should Be 'Clear And Painful'

Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who has more recently assumed the role of chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the ...

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The Debt Economy - How The Tax Code Encourages Debt : The New Yorker

newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Taxes, Debt, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, Consumer Lending, The Debt Economy, Leverage, Borrowing, Tax Code, Business News

. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...

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Barney Frank Talks To The New Yorker's James Surowiecki (VIDEO)

Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

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The New Yorker's James Surowiecki sat down with House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and talked financial regulation, health care ...

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Realigning The Third Wheel

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Surowiecki, Mayors, Urban Policy, Federalism, Paul Krugman, Stimulus, Third Stimulus, Cities, States, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics News
Harry Moroz

While the stimulus package directed $140 billion to state governments, the recovery act sent very little money directly to cities, which would generate longer-term dividends for federalism.

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What European Fiscal Austerity Is Doing To The U.S.

Harry Moroz | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

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Harry Moroz

As the G-20 meeting of the world's 20 biggest economies approaches, the right is cultivating a strategic relationship with the "reformed socialists" o...

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There's Something About Print

Harry Moroz | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Fcc, James Surowiecki, Media, Urban Policy, Matt Yglesias, Detroit Free Press, Corporatization of the Media, Detroit News, Newspaper, Cities, Conglomerates, Media News
Harry Moroz

If local papers disappear entirely (that is, if their digital versions fail), the evidence suggests that "untraditional" sources like blogs just won't be able to pick up the displaced audience.

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