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Bushonomics: Krugman v. Shlaes

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Monday, January 03, 2005

President Bush begins his second term with a bold economic agenda: to partially privatize social security and to radically simplify the tax code. Columnist Amity Shlaes likes the way he is thinking, but Bush critic Paul Krugman does not.

Cracking the nest egg

Paul Krugman New York Times Columnist on the problems of social security
» New York Times
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Amity Shlaes Syndicated Columnist, Financial Times
» Finanical Times

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Passings

Congressman Major Owens, D-11th District (Brooklyn), discusses the legacy of former New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
» Congressman Major Owens
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Shola Lynch, documentary filmmaker, director of "Chisholm '72 -- Unbought & Unbossed", on the life of politics of Shirley Chisholm
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Great Relief

David Sogge, Fellow of the Trans-national Institute, a think-tank based in Amsterdam
» David Sogge

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Development Assistance

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, on emergency relief and development assistance
» The Earth Institute

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Lakoff Effect

George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, author, Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (Chelsea Green, 2004) says the key to Republicans' success is in their use of language
» George Lakoff

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How much Aid is the right amount?

It's a question Colin Powell had to address on Meet the Press yesterday. Why had the American contribution to tsunami relief started at just $15 million and then leapt up to $350 million? Was the US really "stingy", a word the UN's Jan Egeland had used to ...

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