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...skeptical as to whether this is the right plan,” Hart said. “There’s a lot of detail missing regarding which assets will be bought and on what terms. We’re meant to trust the Treasury to enact this plan in a reasonable manner, but they want a carte blanche, and this is worrying...
...have a lot of things to do to consolidate a powerful democracy and make citizens feel a part of this democracy,” Bachelet said. Bachelet was blunt about the difficulties Chile has experienced in implementing democracy but looked at them as lessons in how to enact democratic policies more effectively in the future. “Let me be clear: Latin America’s democratic regimes are still afflicted by many shortcomings because institutions are not as strong as they should be,” she said. Bachelet, a member of the Chilean Socialist Party, emphasized...
...attending an elite private high school. If, however, they knew that a public-school education would offer a better opportunity, they would be likelier to remain engaged in the state system. A simple word from Harvard and similar institutions could enact such a reversal of fortunes...
...some from other political precincts - that the 1999 repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banks from Wall Street, is directly responsible for our current dire financial plight. Its repeal, argued journalist Robert Kuttner in testimony before Congress last year, enabled "super-banks ... to re-enact the same kinds of structural conflicts of interest that were endemic in the 1920s...
Before we become hopelessly lost in despair, however, there is good news: we can do something about this problem. We can enact meaningful building codes and stop keeping insurance premiums artificially low in flood zones...