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Both Sides Are Right About Big Banks 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Andrew Quinn, AEI-Ideas Last weekend, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal ran dueling op-eds on the state of financial regulation. Each piece argued about what you'd expect.
Chicago Pension Crunch Keeps Wall Street Happy 27 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
Dean Baker, Truthout The debate over public pensions clearly shows the contempt that the elites have for ordinary workers. While elites routinely preach the sanctity of contract when it works to benef...
Three Steps Toward Fixing Detroit 27 Aug 2013 | 03:40 pm
Scott Beyer, New Geography Recently Detroit, under orders from a state-appointed emergency manager, became the largest U.S. city to go bankrupt. This stirred predictable media speculation about why th...
We're Winning the Fight Against Homelessness 27 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
Stephen Lurie, Atlantic Despite a housing crisis, a great recession, rising income inequality, and elevated poverty, there is some good news among the most vulnerable segment of American society. Amer...
Federal Spending Is Under Control 27 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic Conservative Republicans are at it again, threatening to cut off the government’s borrowing authority if they don’t get their way on spending. One reason they get away ...
The Case for Optimism About U.S. Growth 27 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
A. Gary Shilling, Bloomberg There is merit to some of the arguments for continued weak U.S. economic growth in the near-term, though the pessimism about the long-term prospects for the U.S. economy is...
Feds Should Stay Out of the CBS Blackout 27 Aug 2013 | 06:50 am
Ryan Radia, RealClearPolicy From Los Angeles to New York, 3 million Americans in eight U.S. cities haven't been able to watch CBS on cable for weeks, because of a business dispute between the network ...
The Problem With the Poverty Line 26 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Pam Fessler, National Public Radio Rico Saccoccio is a junior at Fordham University in the Bronx. He's from a middle-class family in Connecticut and he spent the summer living at home with his parents...
A Civil Rights Suit to Keep Blacks in Failing Schools 26 Aug 2013 | 10:32 pm
Jason Bedrick, Cato In the name of civil rights, the Department of Justice is trying to prevent black families from exercising school choice.On the heels of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ridiculou...
Vouchers Don't Worsen School Segregation 26 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
John Kirtley, redefinED As a white person from Iowa, I am always hesitant to write about the racial aspects of ed reform and parental school choice. I feel it is always better to have others with more...
