Word: interventionism
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The free market crowd still wants to let the capitalist system sort itself out without substantial government intervention. They posit that, no matter how painful the adjustment, it is better for the economy to move to or beyond the brink of collapse on its own so that the resulting inexpensive...
California Assemblyman Marty Block has also sought government intervention, and in January considered proposing legislation to establish a statewide egg-donor registry. But realizing that such a costly endeavor would have little chance for success given the state's budget woes, Block settled on a more recession-friendly action. In...
Burning boats on Housing Night may not be one of Harvard’s most historic traditions, but try telling that to the scores of freshmen who experienced a police crackdown in the recent Housing Day “Quad boat incident.” For several years, freshmen students...
Shafir says despite the swirl of bad news surrounding Citi and Wall Street in general, he and his bankers have stayed focused. He also notes that last Thursday when the House resolution was passed to impose a special bonus tax on employees of many troubled financial institutions, including Citi, nothing...
One reason that regional powers might be leery of going even further would be the past decade and a half of vicious cross-border proxy warfare and direct intervention that eventually became what many dubbed Africa's First World War. Regional power plays had a role in the 1994 Rwandan...