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...problem, of course, is that for a couple of decades now, economic growth has made the rich richer but hasn't been trickling down much to the rank and file. Hence the two trends Clinton has long fretted over: stagnant middle-income wages and rising income inequality. You would think this bad news would be good news for Republicans. Tony Blankley, the spokesman for Newt Gingrich, wonders why Clinton is so determined to dwell on it. "If he is suggesting that he is politically impotent on this huge issue," Blankley has observed, "then he is opening himself...
...contenders for the Republican nomination, only one is seizing the issue in a full-throated way. Only one decries the "stagnant wages of an alienated working class" and lambastes overpaid CEOs. Only one is going beyond standard Republican indictments of the "intellectual elite" to attack the financial elite, venturing beyond cultural populism into full-fledged economic populism. And that candidate is Pat Buchanan--not exactly the dream nominee of Gingrich and the rest of the Republican leadership...
...When traditional East Asian apothecaries ran out of sources for tiger skin and bones, which are used as medicine, among the places to which they turned for new supplies was Siberia. At the same time enforcement efforts collapsed as budgets for ranger patrols disappeared and corruption flourished, driven by stagnant salaries and hyperinflation...
Last year, $73 billion, 13 percent of the total $550 billion discretionary budget, was allocated for spending on science and technology. In recent years, that level has remained stagnant, with only minimal increases to adjust for inflation...
Wilson says faculty like W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who currently chairs the department, and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West, are revitalizing a once stagnant department...