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Showing posts with label AIG bonuses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIG bonuses. Show all posts
Monday, April 27, 2009

Wall Street's Welfare Queens

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As the furor over AIG bonuses fades, Paul Krugman today points to a real outrage: "pay at investment banks, after dipping last year, i...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Guilty Prosecutors?

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This has been a dizzying week for deciding who is above the law or below it, with figures from Ted Stevens and Rod Blagojevich to the AIG bo...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Price of Congress' Crazy Rage

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This has been a bad week for American leadership, and next week could be worse. In trying to calm the country, Barack Obama made one joke to...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

The Accessible Obamas

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The First Couple is out in the real world this week, the President sympathizing with people who have lost their jobs in California and sche...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

A Marshall Plan for AIG

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With each passing day, the insurance giant is looking more like Western Europe after World War II--devastated, bankrupt and occupied by the ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

AIG Lynch Mob

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Of all people, Barack Obama is the unlikeliest to be stirring up a lynch mob, but there is no other way to describe his stoking of public an...
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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