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...country that might avoid the recession
...Harvard enters the match-up looking to play the kind of game it did against the Blue Devils and avoid the mistakes that cost the squad last week versus the Minutemen...
...Having the Senate Budget Committee leaders involved in the talks is especially noteworthy, as it suggests the group is grappling with the issues of PAYGO - a requirement that all new spending be offset by reductions to avoid adding to the deficit. Their presence could also indicate that the group is considering moving the final bill through budget reconciliation, the end-of-the-year budget bill that needs only a simple majority of 50 votes to pass the Senate, thus avoiding a potential GOP filibuster. Republicans have repeatedly warned Democrats against trying to pass health care in that fashion, saying...
...Economy.com chief economist Mark Zandi, was that it was "too clever by half," creating elaborate incentives for private investors when the simple solution would be to have Uncle Sam immediately wade in, grab control, wring out the bad debt and punish the malefactors. The more complex approach attempted to avoid the stigma and huge up-front costs of "nationalizing" banks. But "the Administration hasn't sold its policy efforts well enough," Zandi says. (Read "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars...
Ichiro Ozawa says that he's fond of working at practical things, that he "doesn't like to be showy on the stage." He had better get used to the limelight. If current polling trends continue and if - a big if - he can avoid a fatal taint from the latest of Japan's money-politics scandals, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) could soon be Japan's next Prime Minister. An election for the lower house of the Diet has to be called by Sept. 10, but the surmise in Tokyo is that it may come...