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Bain Capital and our screwed-up culture

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Fromma Harrop - May. 26 (Opinion) - The problem is not the profession. It's what one does in the course of business. But even among those intent on making it big, people with a conscience will not cross certain lines. Bain blew across them.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Not Enough Inflation

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Apr. 05 (Opinion) - Republican attacks on Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, are a destructive effort to bully the Fed into doing exactly the wrong thing.

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Financiers and Sex Trafficking

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Kristoff - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - This emporium for girls and women — some under age or forced into prostitution — is in turn owned by an opaque private company called Village Voice Media. Until now it has been unclear who the ultimate owners are. That mystery is solved.

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Fair Game: W.T.O. and Barriers to Financial Change

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gretchen Morgenson - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - The battle to remake the financial markets faces new obstacles in — of all places — the World Trade Organization. Even now, after all we’ve been through, something is still wrong with Wall Street. That’s the takeaway from the extraordinary — and extraordinarily public — resignation of Greg Smith from Goldman Sachs last week. His criticism of Goldman, made in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times, suggested that some of the business practices and inherent conflicts in the financial industry are as troubling today as they were before all of those taxpayer bailouts.

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The Good, Bad and Ugly of Capitalism

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Joe Nocera - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - Goldman Sachs displayed one side of capitalism this week that seemed to strike a chord with many. Starbucks is displaying a different side.

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American family decline: It's about money, not morals

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Paul Krugman - Feb. 11 (Opinion) - Something is happening to the traditional working-class family. The question is what, writes Paul Krugman. It is amazing how quickly conservatives dismiss the obvious answer: a drastic reduction in the work opportunities available to less-educated men.

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Money and Morals

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - Conservatives have started telling us that the growing inequality is about a decline in morals. But it’s mainly about money.

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Op-Ed Columnist: G.O.P. Monetary Madness

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - When it comes to views on economics, Republicans have been consistent, clear and wrong.

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How to save the euro

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Sep. 15 (Editorial) - So grave, so menacing, so unstoppable has the euro crisis become that even rescue talk only fuels ever-rising panic. Investors have sniffed out that Europe’s leaders seem unwilling ever to do enough. Yet unless politicians act fast to persuade the world that their desire to preserve the euro is greater than the markets’ ability to bet against it, the single currency faces ruin. As credit lines gum up and outsiders plead for action, it is not just the euro that is at risk, but the future of the European Union and the health of the world economy.

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DNC chair blames Tea Party ‘tyrants’ for S&P credit rating downgrade

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Hill - By Alicia M. Cohn - Aug. 08 (Opinion) - Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill: DNC chair blames Tea Party ‘tyrants’ for S&P credit rating downgrade — The head of the Democratic National Committee joined Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Monday in casting blame for the U.S. credit downgrade on the Tea Party movement. — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) …

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The Mistake of 2010

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - A look at some recent dismal economic data shows the results of a pivot away from jobs to other concerns.

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The classical view of the global recession

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Gavyn Davies - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - The disappointing economic data on US activity in recent months has brought a key policy debate back into focus. Is there a chronic shortage of growth in the developed world, and if so what should be done about it?

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When Austerity Fails

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 23 (Opinion) - I often complain, with reason, about the state of economic discussion in the United States. And the irresponsibility of certain politicians — like those Republicans claiming that defaulting on U.S. debt would be no big deal — is scary.

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Dollar diplomacy: Public policy calls for ‘strong’ currency, but strategy may not

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Neil Irwin - May. 06 (Opinion) - The government has put in place a range of policies that make the dollar likely to decline in value over time. But no one in a position of authority can really admit it, because of politics and the possibility of a bad reaction in financial markets.

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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Frederick Kaufman - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - It took the brilliant minds of Goldman Sachs to realize the simple truth that nothing is more valuable than our daily bread. And where there's value, there's money to be made.

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The Intimidated Fed

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - So much for addressing the dismal unemployment picture during the Fed chairman’s press conference. Instead, Ben Bernanke is bending to the inflationistas.

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Thank you, Standard & Poor's

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Kinsley - Apr. 26 (Opinion) - The bond rating service's warning about the U.S. debt shouldn't be ignored. It's time for another jeremiad on inflation.

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Bad debt ceiling ideas, Part II

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - Let’s grant the Toomeys and Bachmanns of the world everything their theories need. Let’s say that as long as we pay back our creditors first, the market will leave us alone. Let’s say it all works out fine. It’s still a bad idea.

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There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Carrie Lukas - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Recent studies have shown that the wage gap shrinks—or even reverses—when relevant factors are taken into account and comparisons are made between men and women in similar circumstances. In a 2010 study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30, the research firm Reach Advisors found that women earned an average of 8% more than their male counterparts. Given that women are outpacing men in educational attainment, and that our economy is increasingly geared toward knowledge-based jobs, it makes sense that women's earnings are going up compared to men's.

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Fixes: A Scorecard for Companies With a Conscience

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tina Rosenberg - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - The law states that the duty of a business’s directors is to maximize profits for shareholders. Obviously, there are many ways to maximize profits; even costly socially responsible activities can do just that in the long term. But when a business is on the block, there is often no more long term for shareholders. The difference in the prices offered by Hot Fudge Partners and Unilever offered was too great. The directors of Ben and Jerry’s felt that if they had accepted the lower offer, they could have expected a lawsuit from shareholders — which they would likely have lost. The company was acquired by Unilever in April 2000. Ben and Jerry’s is far from alone. The typical pattern for a new, successful, triple-bottom-line company is that it quickly gets gobbled up by a major corporation

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Brazil: changing sides in currency war

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Jonathan Wheatley - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - Another day, another macro-prudential measure from Brazil. On Thursday night Guido Mantega, finance minister, announced a doubling in the tax due on personal loans, from 1.5 to 3 per cent a year.

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Pumped up?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By James Surowiecki - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - The U.S. economy has finally started to create jobs at a reasonable clip. Inflation is still low. Corporate profits are healthy, and surveys of business conditions suggest that the recovery is, as the Federal Reserve recently put it, “on a firmer footing.” So are happy days here again? Hardly.

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The News We Deserve

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Boulder Daily Camera - By Julian Friedland - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - I hear many people today, often rather educated as they tend to read the Times regularly, complaining about this new charge, saying that they will not pay it. This confounds and infuriates me. Since when does one expect to get something for nothing? The truth is that free online access to journalism is far from free. As a result, newspapers are crumbling because they cannot generate enough ad revenue to continue providing quality investigative journalism.

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Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - By Joseph E. Stiglitz - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.

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Where the Bailout Went Wrong

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Neil M. Barofsky - Mar. 30 (Opinion) - Treasury prevented a meltdown of the financial system, but failed to meet the legislative goal of protecting home values.

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