Joseph Stiglitz

Why Is There No National Energy Policy?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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National energy policy? Why bother? A dollar/gallon investment tax on gasoline, the 10% solution and a 10 cents / pound carbon dioxide tax are all we need.

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The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree

John Cusack | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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That was fun -- just got done spending $3 trillion. Honestly, it would have been a whole lot easier just to follow the president's example and blow it all on one illegal occupation of Iraq.

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Five Years After "Mission Accomplished"

Reps. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, and Lynn Woolsey | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Instead of working to find political solutions that will calm the warring sects, our continued military presence has further entrenched the divisions on all sides of the conflict.

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$3 Trillion Campaign Reveals The Cost Of Quagmire

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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Three trillion dollars is a lot of money. So much that it's hard to get your head around. You shouldn't feel bad about it, after all, John McCain ca...

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Stiglitz on McCain: If He Doesn't Understand the Economy, He Doesn't Understand Security

Nathan Gardels | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

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"If you weaken the American economy, you won't be able to find the resources you need for security. The two cannot be separated."

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The $3,000,000,000,000 War is a Domestic Issue

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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We need to pull the plug on the media's disturbing habit of acting as if foreign and domestic policy are completely separate entities -- a pair of high stakes board games that can only be taken off the shelf and played one at a time.

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Stiglitz: War Costs Causing Housing Crisis

The Austrailian | Peter Wilson | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business

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THE Iraq war has cost the US 50-60 times more than the Bush administration predicted and was a central cause of the sub-prime banking crisis threateni...

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Why Estimates of the Cost of the War in Iraq Have Been Rising

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics

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The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so far (2002-2008) is estimated at $1.6 trillion. Based on projections through 2017, the cost is $3.5 trillion.

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