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    Here and Back again

    JUNE 1, 2012 2:36PM

    By Dug Um


    Topics: green lantern, travel, movies, comedy, doggie style, sex, life, economics, mountain, mtb, biking, martin short, martin shorts wife, finance, money, stock exchange, hong kong, romney, obama

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    Here and Back again

    JUNE 1, 2012 2:36PM

    By Dug Um


    Topics: green lantern, travel, movies, comedy, doggie style, sex, life, economics, mountain, mtb, biking, martin short, martin shorts wife, finance, money, stock exchange, hong kong, romney, obama

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    Here and Back again

    JUNE 1, 2012 2:36PM

    By Dug Um


    Topics: green lantern, travel, movies, comedy, doggie style, sex, life, economics, mountain, mtb, biking, martin short, martin shorts wife, finance, money, stock exchange, hong kong, romney, obama

    • 9 Ratings
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    • 16 Comments
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    Another "Neo" conservative escapes right wing's Matrix

    MAY 30, 2012 11:36AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: lawrence wilkerson, richard clarke, bruce bartlett, david frum, barry goldwater, david stockman, george w bush, colin powell, weekly standard, forbes, washington times, national review, reagan administration, finance capitalism, wall street, plutocrats, robber barons, gilded age, liberty, freedom, allen west, clinton impeachment, authoritarianism, mike lofgren, traditions of civility, walter lippmann, democracy, nullification, fox news, iran-contra, watergate, bill clinton, barack obama, new deal, communist party, right wing extremism, alexis de tocqueville, edmund burke, bismarck, salon, mccarthyism, democratic party, liberalism, fascism, conservatism, michael fumento, neo, the matrix, republican party, economics, politics

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    On Entitlement, Austerity, and Julia

    MAY 29, 2012 12:05PM

    By E. Magill


    Topics: government, economics, paul ryan, obama, the life of julia, julia, austerity, entitlement, politics

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    • 7 Ratings
    • 350 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Democrats expected to do GOP's dirty work for it

    MAY 29, 2012 6:24AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, republican party, democratic party, president obama, mitt romney, politifact, pants on fire liar, fedeal spending, tea party, deficits, joan walsh, american enterprise institute, ann coulter, wall street journal, david frum, fiscal austerity, economic crisis, herbert hoover, great depression, paul krugman, fiscal stimulus, conservative principles

    • 12 Ratings
    • 549 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Corny Economics

    MAY 29, 2012 9:15AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: place to live, housing, house, home, healthcare, health care, health, drink umbrellas, drink umbrella, blind trust, trust, obfuscation, excuses, excuse, extra, surplus, leisure, luxuries, luxury, non-essentials, essentials, essential, wants, needs, housing, shelter, clothing, clothes, clothe, food, feed, harmonicas, corny economics, economics, corn, corny, politics

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    • 734 Views
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    Why “Income Inequality” is a losing issue and how to fix it

    MAY 25, 2012 8:20AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: opportunity equality, bill gates, mark zuckerberg, jimmy zuma, income, wealth, princeton research, economics, 99 percent, income inequality, ows, occupy wall street

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    John Stossel says the poor are getting richer

    MAY 24, 2012 5:49PM

    By Ann klefstad


    Topics: inequality, rich, poor, politics, economics, tea party

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    Advice From An Indiana Congressman; 1931

    MAY 24, 2012 4:47PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: facebook, congressman, indiana, arthur herbert greenwood, spencer evening world, 1931, ownership, distribution, stock market, gambling, bubbles, over-capitalization, dividends, common stock, economics, economic structure, the great depression, sales tax, income tax, supreme court, faith, fdic, sec, social security, fha, national labor relations act, national labor relations board, minimum wage, standard work week, child labor, slick willie, bill clinton, galss-steagall, nafta, tcm, gold diggers in paris, 1938, savings, interest, wall street

    • 3 Ratings
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    Aristocracy Now!

    MAY 20, 2012 12:04PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: no tax pledge, grover norquist, teddy roosevelt, jp morgan, french nobility, french revolution, free market capitalism, freedom of speech, black liberation theology, reverand wright, super pac, nixon enemies list, paling around with terrorists, john mccain, rachel maddow, alexis de tocqueville, fox news, bill o'reilly, president obama, mitt romney, democratic party, republican party, aristocracy, democracy, catholic bishops, religion, economics, politics

    • 5 Ratings
    • 239 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Vulture Capitalism Is About "Values?"

    MAY 17, 2012 9:37AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: public schools, bain capital, steve jobs, egalitarianism, class warfare, income redistribution, limited government, social democracy, jonathan chait, finance reform, financial crisis, credit default swap, masters of the universe, democracy, 99% and 1%, commercialism, too big to fail, oligarchy, robber barons, socialism, entrepreneurialism, bill gates, new deal, egalitarianism, jeff jacoby, thomas friedman, american enterprise institute, arthur brooks, free market, supply-side economics, capitalism, american exceptionalism, freedom, financial reform, wall street, jamie dimon, jpmorgan, economics, politics

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    Tax Reform: What It Could Mean for Tribes and Territories

    MAY 15, 2012 1:50PM

    By Michael Bindner


    Topics: territories, native tribes, tax reform, economics, politics, district of columbia statehood

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    Why Art & Politics are Stuck in the 20th Century

    MAY 14, 2012 9:19AM

    By Christian de Lutz


    Topics: technology, retro, new media, art, economics, politics, twenty one c

    • 1 Ratings
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    Nature and Civilization

    MAY 11, 2012 8:17AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: humanity and nature, society, optimization, capitalism and socialism, environmentalism, benefit, blindness, economics, civilization, nature

    • 5 Ratings
    • 368 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Charting the rise of stupidity

    MAY 11, 2012 8:14AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: ronald reagan, economics, supply side, stockman, boehner, moronocracy, jimmy zuma, starve the beast, wimpynomics, the rise of stupidity, rick perry, american exceptionalism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 1073 Views
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    A return of might have been

    MAY 7, 2012 8:47AM

    By Mary Stanik


    Topics: marry, friends, facebook, economists, economics, dorm, university

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 3966 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”

    MAY 2, 2012 1:18PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: and paul volker, christine romer, joseph stiglitz, robert reich, dodd-frank financial reform act, glass-steagall act, jeb hensarling, larry summers, president barack obama, timothy geithner, episode 3, power & wall street”, “money, frontline documentary, derivatives, wall street abuses, timothy geithner legacy, obama presidency, bank bailout, recession of 2007-09, economic meltdown, finance, economics, politics

    • 5 Ratings
    • 328 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Republicans Running Away From Their Own Party

    MAY 1, 2012 10:36AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, republican party, scott brown, us senate, right wing, frank luntz, elizabeth warren, president obama, filibuster, tea party, george w bush, propaganda, michael gerson, social security, medicare, wall street reform, big government, budget cuts, conservative movement, obamacare, paul ryan, ayn rand, capitalism, supply side economics, catholic church, catholic bishops, social justice, new deal, keynesian economics, mitt romney, socialism, conservatism, liberalism

    • 4 Ratings
    • 234 Views
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    Dissembling Myth For Reality: a GOP Specialty

    APRIL 30, 2012 1:54PM

    By The Flylooper


    Topics: political myths, flyloper, election, economics, politics

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