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...rest of America may still be recovering from the real estate bubble, but here in Cambridge, it looks like prices are still sky-high...

Author: By Ada H. Lio, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Is One of America’s Richest Cities | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...solutions on the horizon.  The conventional wisdom says that after years of spending without any awareness of our limits, we must now enter an extended period of frugality. Yet, in reality, these desperate times call for greater spending, as opposed to cutbacks. In order to reduce the sky-high unemployment that threatens our country’s present and future, to soothe the damaged and frightened national psyche, and to build a strong foundation for growth, the government must unleash massive public spending...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Spending Now for a Better Future | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Perhaps this isn't surprising. With the economy shaken and unemployment sky-high, with the federal debt mounting by the trillion as Washington politicians pay lip service to fiscal responsibility (picture a sermon on humility delivered by Shaquille O'Neal), an outbreak of outrage was inevitable. The Tea Party movement is just one expression of a vast discontent unsettling the country. Recent polls have found that two-thirds of Americans describe themselves as dissatisfied or angry with their government - a huge, not-so-silent majority that ranges from conservatives convinced that Obama is a Maoist to liberals convinced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...lessons taught by the financial crisis, the most personal has been that Americans aren't too slick with money. We take out home loans we can't afford. We run up sky-high credit-card debt. We don't save nearly enough for retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Teach Kids About Money | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard Club of Toronto chose to host the event downtown at the Jump Bar, which is a “Big bold American-style bistro, packing plenty of bravado: sky-high glass atrium ceilings, rich wood interiors and a killer New York style bar.” Irony aside, it was quite a nice venue. The entire area surrounding the bar had been reserved by the HCT, and Cindy Maxwell '92, MD '97, President of the HCT, warmly greeted everyone personally and handed out nametags in English and French...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis, Kane Hsieh, and Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Schmoozin' and Bruisin' with the HAA | 1/2/2010 | See Source »

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