Archive for November, 2011

David Frum Democratize the EU – The Week Magazine


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David Frum Democratize the EU
The Week Magazine
This may be the week that decides whether we stumble into — or avert — a second Great Depression. May I entice you to pay brief attention to a possible solution? Afterwards, we can quickly return to our regularly scheduled sex scandals.

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ESRI’s radical proposal will only further unnerve Berlin – Irish Times

ESRI's radical proposal will only further unnerve Berlin
Irish Times
“I don't care how they do it,” he said, but if leaders don't act Europe faces “a second Great Depression”. He spoke of a fall in output in Europe of 20-30 per cent if sovereign default and euro break up come to pass. In fact, a decline of those

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In Philadelphia speech, Kaine makes the case for Dems – witf.org

In Philadelphia speech, Kaine makes the case for Dems
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From the Recovery Act that helped prevent a second Great Depression and the Affordable Care Act that makes sure that no one is ever again denied insurance because of heartless insurance company rules; to student lending reforms that make college more

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Fans the Big Winners in the New NBA Deal – Bleacher Report


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Fans the Big Winners in the New NBA Deal
Bleacher Report
While the stimulus spending might have prevented the country from sliding into a second Great Depression, the economic advisers in the Obama administration have not come up with much to pull the country out of it. As a fan looking at contracts on NBA

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The naïveté of a liberal – Daily Mail – Charleston (blog)


Daily Mail – Charleston (blog)
The naïveté of a liberal
Daily Mail – Charleston (blog)
Wrote Kevin Drum: “There's a certain amount of unfairness that's inherent in any banking rescue, and I can live with that when the alternative is a second Great Depression. But hoo boy, what a contrast with how the rest of us were treated.

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Muhyiddin praises spirit of cooperation – New Straits Times


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Muhyiddin praises spirit of cooperation
New Straits Times
"The spirit of cooperation has stopped the Great Recession of today from becoming a second Great Depression," he said at the closing of Umno's International Forum on "The Politics of Economic and Social Transformation in the Era of Global Crisis" today

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US holds an obligation to the lower class, history shows – Virginia Tech Collegiate Times

US holds an obligation to the lower class, history shows
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
Recently, one of them pontificated that the United States needs a second Great Depression so citizens can learn the values that made their country great again. According to her, we lost our values of responsibility and living within our means that we

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Debt no more: Steve Keen’s radical proposal – 89.3 KPCC (blog)

Debt no more: Steve Keen's radical proposal
89.3 KPCC (blog)
The video is of economist Steve Keen, on the BBC's HARDTalk, laying out his plan to escape what he considers a second Great Depression. It's out there. Way out there. But he also presents a very clear analysis of what went so horribly wrong with the

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How 2008 Should Have Radicalized Us All – Mother Jones


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How 2008 Should Have Radicalized Us All
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There's a certain amount of unfairness that's inherent in any banking rescue, and I can live with that when the alternative is a second Great Depression. But hoo boy, what a contrast with how the rest of us were treated.

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Obama and Liberal Intellige… – Splice Today

Obama and Liberal Intellige…
Splice Today
Kristof despairs that Obama is a “piñata” for liberals and conservatives alike, and hopes the former will remember all his accomplishments, such as preventing a second Great Depression (true, so far, although we have no idea whether McCain would've

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