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...framers of the Constitution were constantly worried that even in a republic fools could end up in control of the government. That might be the sort of elected officials who would chase issues that may be popular but are ultimately almost worthless in terms of helping the country, and, in the present case, the economy. Whether AIG employees got large bonuses, especially since they probably had contracts to guarantee the compensation, is irrelevant in the overall effort to turn the course of the recession...
...Harvard] needs to start thinking creatively,” Mattison said. “Something has to jump-start this, some sort of stimulus...
...Unfortunately, the same sort of celebrity arrogance, which presumes that the American public should listen to actors by virtue of their being famous, is pervasive. In the recent “Presidential Pledge” video that Moore and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, created with the help of dozens of other “inspired” actors, a group of Hollywood celebrities comes together with the intent to catalyze the deep, profound change America “needs” at the dawn of its forty-fourth presidency...
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...seen as a safe investment. That means, in China, you don't have the real estate equivalent of "dine and dash": people don't abandon houses the minute they think the price level is lower than what they paid, leaving it to the mortgage company or the banks to sort out. There's no sub-prime, zero-percent-down U.S.-style debacle here...