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...been quick to come to their defense. "It is not private equity that caused the crisis, nor hedge funds," Mats Odell, Sweden's financial markets minister said earlier this month in the context of the E.U.'s proposals. "But in some countries, the political debate portrays [them] as the problem." Paul Myners, a British government minister with responsibility for the U.K.'s financial-services sector - home to 80% of Europe's roughly $400 billion in hedge-fund assets - accused other E.U. governments July 7 of making "political capital out of demanding intrusive regulation of an industry of which they have...
...call their project a "loving" one, spurred by the fact that Leitenberg's family contacted her Facebook friends. Both are quick to say their relatives are not the problem - Brooks Adickman says her parents aren't even "allowed" to join Facebook - but they recognized that others might not be so fortunate. "No matter how embarrassing your mom is, there's someone who's a thousand times worse," Leitenberg says...
...other states, however, it's the extra volatility that comes from dependence on personal-income tax that is exacerbating the problem. Research by economists at the Chicago Fed show that by the late 1990s, the personal-income tax had emerged as the major source of state revenue - and that personal-income tax swings more wildly than other taxes, like sales tax. The typical state now gets 36% of its funding from personal-income tax, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government. As unemployment continues to climb and investors offset their capital gains with losses, the effect is felt disproportionately...
...alive and strong. And I think it’s safe to say that the potential for legalizing “the world’s oldest profession” is virtually nonexistent in our country. So maybe the issue of minors working in prostitution is a purely Dutch problem, I thought, one that Dutch society would have to confront itself...
...problem with Libertarians is that they don’t politick. They lecture. Discourses on monetary policy attract audiences, but those audiences consist of other Libertarians. To recruit more troops, conservatives of all stripes must retool their rhetoric. They have a right to be angry—spending is out of control—but in politics you don’t get angry, you get even. You get elected. And to get elected you use humor, to show you’re even-keeled...