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...plan that helps low-income Americans goes deep into Democratic territory and sounds like the perfect policy component to fit Bush's centrist rhetoric. The problem for Bush and his economic team is that none of the fixes they are considering are easy or cheap. Push back the phase-out of benefits to higher income levels, and the number of families receiving tax credits and subsidies explodes. Increase the size of standard deductions and child tax credits, and watch revenues shrink. Reduce the number of tax brackets while eliminating loopholes, and the lowest-income families may not be any better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Bush Tax Tango | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...rising. Strong markets can mask underlying risks, like losing more than your principal when on margin. Concerned about just that, the National Association of Securities Dealers last week began requiring brokerage firms to disclose day-trading risks and to determine whether a client is suited before opening an account. None too soon. Day traders' favorite stocks have long been Internet and other high-tech companies prized for their big price swings. Since April, Net stocks have fallen on hard times, revealing many formerly brilliant day traders to be little more than lucky novices. Unfamiliar with strategies like selling short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day Trading: It's a Brutal World | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...head its list of candidates. "The Kremlin is very threatened by Luzhkov?s new bloc, particularly if ? as is expected ? Primakov agrees to lead them in the election," says Meier. "Primakov right now leads all other politicians in the polls. Then again, in most polling the top choice remains ?none of the above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suddenly (Unbelievably?), Moscow's in the Money | 8/5/1999 | See Source »

...there told TIME, "I've seen this family in other sad circumstances, and I'm telling you, this was different. This gang is shell-shocked, blown away. This wasn't, 'Let's have 10 family members get up and say the torch is passed, time for a new generation.' None of that. This was a funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell, John | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...York Times had to ruin it. The paper finally dropped the snooty subtext sprinkled throughout its Metro section, its Real Estate section and its none too subtle Dining In section ("Tonight, my lord, we shall attempt to eat in our very own home!") and just came out and said it. In a front-page story about the Bruce Springsteen concert was this comment: "Many people seemed, for a day at least, to exult in the fact that they too were from New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Sing the New Jersey Electric | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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