nytimes.com - 12/27/2008
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I’ve got a new year’s resolution and a new slogan for the country. The resolution may be difficult, but it’s essential. Americans must resolve to be smarter going forward than we have been for the past several years. Look around you. We have behaved in ways that were incredibly, astonishingly ...
nytimes.com - 1/2/2009
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Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect,
to make itself the party of racial backlash. And...
everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Bigger Than Bush
nytimes.com - 12/22/2008
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It may take a lot longer than many
people think before the United States economy is ready...
to live without bubbles. And until then, the economy is going to need a lot of government help. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Life Without Bubbles
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Saturday between the holidays. Life is slow, and the weather is erratic. But there's still a pundit or two out there. Bob Herbert: Smart is back. Stupid is out. Greed isn't good. You can't get something for nothing. We should have known better. It didn’t require a genius (or even an economics degree) to understand a crucial point that popped up some years ago in a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal: "Markets are a great way to organize economic activity, but they need adult supervision." Did Alan ...
Dear Bob Herbert,
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As a public service, I thought you should be made aware of a tiny flaw in your normally-reliable column. Hardly worth mentioning, really. See if you can spot it. "Stop Being Stupid" I’ve got a new year’s resolution and a new slogan for the country. The resolution may be difficult, but it’s essential. Americans must resolve to be smarter... We have behaved in ways that were incredibly, astonishingly and. embarrassingly stupid for much too long. ... We’ve wrecked the economy and ...
On watching train-wrecks
The Sideshow —
... Bob Herbert says he has a slogan for the new year, but I think the title of his column about it makes a better one: "Stop Being Stupid." Because all that deregulation, all those tax policies that actually reverse the direction of previous policies meant to protect America's real wealth, all the attacks on unions and conglomeration of corporations and squeezing of the middle class - that has been stupid, pure and simple. Allowing conglomeration of the media into the hands of a small number of greedy and vicious conservatives has been the stupidest thing of all, allowing ...
You Say You Want a Regulation?
Firedoglake —
As if the economic news weren't bad enough at the moment, with analysis of the near future looking grim and unemployment numbers rising as consumer spending tanks, you'd think a little common sense might kick in somewhere. And maybe we'd get better regulation ...
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