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...plunging into a recession. The proximate cause is irresponsible mortgage loans made to people who can't pay the money back. The deeper cause is, at least in part, years of too much borrowing and spending by Americans, both as individuals and collectively through the government. But behold: there is???oh, joy!?bipartisan agreement on a solution. Although quibbling over the details, everyone?Republicans and Democrats, the White House and Congress, all the presidential candidates?agrees that what we need is a "fiscal stimulus...
...universe is amoral. It is??an endless series of creative and destructive processes. As creatures of the universe, we are immutably subject to its ways and thus have the capacity to brutalize and destroy as well as create and protect...
...proud, loyal Democrat who is??opposed to the candidacy of Senator Hillary Clinton for President [Nov. 19]. I have no problem with her positions on the issues or her little sashay to the right in anticipation of the general election. And my opposition certainly does not rise to the level of hatred. But the voters (with a little help from the Supreme Court) have already passed the presidency from a Bush to a Clinton to another Bush. Now it could be passed back to another Clinton, and I'd bet that Jeb Bush is patiently awaiting his turn...
Somewhere on Wall Street there is??a hedge-fund manager ruing the day he gave money to a Democrat in 2006. On Nov. 9, the House passed a plan that would raise taxes on the lofty fees and bonuses that hedge-fund and private-equity managers receive. This has placed Senate Democrats, who will next take up the measure, in a quandary. They are compelled to fix the alternative minimum tax (AMT), which hurts big swaths of the middle class even though it was created to ensure that the very rich could not entirely escape paying income...