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You predict that private equity will go through a shakeout similar to what we've seen in the housing market. How does that analogy work? Private-equity firms used the same cheap credit that caused the housing bubble to buy companies. There are about 100 of these firms - KKR, Blackstone...
Leaders in the early Republic had it easier. The work of taming a continent provided every American who wanted one with a full-time job and drew settlers from oceans away. Laws like the Homestead Act of 1862 - which granted any man or woman up to 160 acres of public...
By 1938, struggling to make a dent in crippling unemployment, Roosevelt had come around to Keynes' advice. It worked: massive New Deal and World War II outlays pushed unemployment down from nearly 15% in 1940 to 1.2% in 1944.
In the year since the Mumbai attacks, the Indian government has taken several steps to tighten security. It has improved co-ordination between the state and central intelligence agencies, devoted more men and equipment to security services and put intense diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to crack down on LeT and...
The responsibility for cleaning up the dark corners of Indian life lies not only with the police. Citizens, too, have to demand a better system. Behera says that Indians use elections to throw out politicians perceived as corrupt, but so far, "there is no great social movement against corruption." That...