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...nationals became justification for a war in Iraq.) While Krauthammer is right that “at the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry,” he refuses to acknowledge that long-term economic recovery will need to address not only the most immediate causes of the financial crisis, but also structural and long-persisting challenges to economic growth...
House Masters: Tom and Verena Conley are, for lack of a better term, baller. Though no longer for credit, Tom still offers his immensely popular Wine Seminar every spring. He’s also a regular staple of Stein Clubs, where his conversation vacillates between sophisticated chatter about fine wine and French films to impassioned rants on his fierce, if somewhat contradictory allegiances to the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants. Verena plays his quieter counterpart, welcoming freshmen like sheep into the fold and secretly accumulating information about everyone in the house so she can strike up conversation...
...independent judiciary are a tactic. Neither the PPP nor Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) have an attractive track record when it comes to the judiciary. Both parties stand accused of packing courts with pliable judges in search of favorable verdicts. In 1998, during his second term in office, Sharif's supporters stormed the Supreme Court when they feared a ruling against their leader...
...There are good reasons for the Administration to focus on the banks. The first is clarity. In recent days, the President has highlighted his long-term plans for education, energy independence and health care - all of which, he argues, are essential to the long-range vitality of the U.S. economy. But to borrow from Keynes again, in the long term, we'll be dead, and in the short term, the LIBOR rate - that esoteric measure of financial vigor - has been creeping in the wrong direction again. "The public really needs to know what he thinks is important," says a senior...
...schedule on the prevention and wellness provisions as well as the parts of the bill involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (known as ERISA), which regulates employer-offered health-insurance plans. Rockefeller will first hold his own series of hearings in March and early April on quality, long-term care and the importance of a competitive and open bidding process...