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Column: Wall Street protesters must make though-provoking demands
You may have heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests happening in New York, in which several hundred activists have taken over Zuccotti Park near Wall Street since Sept. 17 — and this past Saturday more than a thousand more joined.
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Column: Public underestimates severity of income gap
Last week, President Obama announced a new plan to reduce the federal deficit by roughly $3.6 trillion over the next decade. He intends to raise $1.
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Column: The Eurozone – A central banker’s nightmare
When the Euro was introduced, many analysts predicted that centralizing monetary policy over such an economically diverse area would make the common currency unsustainable and prone to financial collapse. Why they were right, why they’re being ignored, and what must be done about it.
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Column: Preventing the next jobs crisis
It’s become customary in American politics to respond to a crisis with a set of big measures intended to never let it happen again. Sometimes these measures are overreactions. Sept.
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Column: Does anyone think this is a good idea?
President Obama wants to end discrimination against the unemployed, by making it an unlawful employment practice to not hire someone because they’re unemployed. My question, and this is only partially rhetorical: does anyone think this is a good idea?
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Column: The myth of the marginal income tax rate
Nobody ever said economists were perfect. Economics necessarily smoothes away the complicated marginalia of actual economic life, in order to produce models that will work simply and fairly accurately. Generally this does not pose too much of a problem.
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Editorial: Wall Street protestors must unify leadership for success
An organization known as Occupy Wall Street has attracted a multitude of diverse individuals united by their frustrations and discontent with "corporatocracy." Since the protests began on Sept.
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Student protestors ‘Occupy Wall Street’
On Sept. 17, more than 20 Wesleyan U. students joined “Occupy Wall Street,” a leaderless community currently camping out in the Wall Street area to protest inequalities in wealth distribution and corruption in corporate America.
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Column: America could use a wealth tax
Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock since the Reagan administration knows that America is in a hefty amount of debt. For the Patrick Stars among us, you can view a live stream of the debt increase at usdebtclock.