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Poll shows young voters skeptical of Social Security
Young Americans would rather entrust their money to the Tooth Fairy than the federal government. In a recent poll, 66 percent of voters ages 18 to 29 said they believed their Social Security money is safer “under their pillow” than with the federal government.
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Column: Drowning in debt
The economic news this summer has been disastrous. Growth has stalled, unemployment has risen and the possibility of a double-dip recession has increased. America’s GDP per person today is roughly the same as it was in 2005. By that measure, we are already six years into our lost decade.
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Boehner talks business during campus visit
Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, the man who is two seats away from being president of the United States, spoke about jobs, small business and unemployment at U. Cincinnati Monday.
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Column: Obama’s class warfare rhetoric is troubling
In an April 2008 presidential debate between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, moderator Charlie Gibson pointed out that both times the capital gains tax had been cut in the past two decades, revenue had increased, and that it had gone down when the tax was raised in the 1980s.
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Credit Suisse CEO expresses optimism on economy
Credit Suisse CEO Brady W. Dougan struck a mostly optimistic tone about the state of the global economy at a discussion aimed at recruiting Harvard students at the Faculty Club Monday afternoon.
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Column: Taxation for our representation, or else
Warren Buffet recently published an op-ed criticizing what he calls a "billionaire-friendly Congress.
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Column: Entertaining the VAT – Should America make the jump?
America is broken. Regardless of partisanship, something needs to be done in order to fix the grave problems that face this once great country. The deficit continues to swell, unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the U.S.
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Column: We need Wall Street
On Saturday, thousands of protestors flooded the streets of New York City's financial district to voice opposition to what they described as rampant corporate greed.
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Column: Deliver snail mail from certain death
In many ways, I feel like saying, "ha ha" to the United States Postal Service. Take that! Take that, for bringing me all those bills in my mail. I say this because USPS can't even pay its own bills. Personally, I never knew that the Post Office falls under a special umbrella of the U.S.