marginalrevolution.com - 12/2/2008
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It's official. | Main | Changes in money wages The Next Crisis It's not just Social Security and Medicare which are underfunded. State governments have vastly underfunded public pensions. Here is the abstract to a new NBER paper, The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises by ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/25/2008
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
So we're having a crisis, reflecting the policy
failures of the past 8 years. But the usual...
suspects insist that the crisis is all the more reason to persist with those policies - indeed, make them permament. Thus, John Taylor - a very good economist, ...
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Conservative crisis desperation
mahablog.com - 12/8/2008
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mahablog.com —
The Chicago Tribune Company may file for bankruptcy,
and the New York Times Company plans to borrow...
against its new West Side corporate headquarters to meet a cash shortfall. (Full disclosure — as a writer for About.com I work on contract for ...
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Newspaper Crisis
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Stones Cry Out —
I wonder if the logic of “broken windows” also applies to improving standards of dress and manner, it seems likely it might. Is this a reason dispense with the T-shirt/jeans as default dress?
Well, it’s one of the main reasons I blog.
To what use, one wonders?
Yet Another Looming Crises … YALC? Let’s hope yalc doesn’t make it into the lexicon.
Ethics and science, yet if ethics and science are both pursuit of beauty … isn’t there a ...
401 Not O(k)?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The alternative, Ghilarducci's government-run pension plan, doesn't sound very promising. State governments have vastly underfunded the public pensions they are already responsible for. ...
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