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...with constrictions on visiting faculty, creates a dangerous combination that threatens to impoverish the undergraduate educational experience. FAS is limiting the number of visiting professors next year; the economics department will have only two or three, compared to the 15 it has in the current year. Visiting professors often patch up a department’s curricular weaknesses, and their relative absence will likely deplete the College’s course offerings for undergraduates. Given the comparative lack of faculty, students will be faced with the dismaying prospect of fewer seminars and bigger Core and Gen Ed classes next year...
...front of the modest, thatched-roof home of Fazlur Rehman, 50, the village's unofficial headman. His younger brother lives next door - in another country. "His child, my child are the same," Rehman says. But in Panidhar, the children violate international law every time they run around the small patch of mango and betel-nut trees. A few hundred meters away, Indian and Bangladeshi border guards patrol on each side...
...time home buyers, a hair-of-the-dog solution to a crisis that has its roots in an artificially inflated housing market; it wouldn't provide stimulus, and it wouldn't point the country in a new direction. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says the Senate's $70 billion patch to the alternative minimum tax is "neither timely nor targeted" and "makes no sense as economic stimulus." But the biggest component--a $145 billion payroll-tax cut--is both good stimulus, because it targets low- and moderate-income earners (who are less likely to save it), and good policy, because...
...classic hair-of-the-dog solution to a crisis with roots in an artificially inflated housing market; the credit wouldn't provide stimulus and it wouldn't point the country in a new direction. Similarly, as the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center pointed out, the Senate's $70 billion patch to the alternative minimum tax is "neither timely nor targeted" and "makes no sense as economic stimulus." And it's worth noting that the corporate tax cuts favored by the GOP critics who have screeched the loudest about the lack of stimulus in the stimulus happen to be lousy stimulus...
TARP does nothing to patch the hole in the banking system. And it certainly doesn't do anything to encourage banks to make more loans. Yes, banks have gotten nearly $300 billion in money from the government, and that's a lot of dough. But it's not free dough. In return for federal cash, the government has taken preferred-stock shares as the firm's markers. Unlike common stock, which is the kind you or I would buy from a broker, preferreds have to eventually be paid back, so they are really loans, not additional capital. (See which country...