SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Unrest Grows as Economy Booms By TOM ORLIK Beijing China’s massive economic-stimulus program has supported near double-digit growth, but also stoked inflation, piled up debt and fueled another unwelcome development: social unrest. In 2010, China was rocked by 180,000 protests, riots and other mass incidents—more than four times the tally from a […]
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Health insurance remains closely tied to employment. Don’t expect a turnaround until the jobs picture improves. By SALLY C. PIPESMs. Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. Her latest book is “The Truth About Obamacare” (Regnery 2010). The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest estimates
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Why send jobs overseas by creating more rules for American business? By SUSAN COLLINS Ms. Collins is a Republican senator from Maine. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: America’s overregulation problem is only getting worse. Right now, federal agencies are at work on more than 4,200 rules, 845 of which affect small businesses, the
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Pivot Point: Investors Lose Faith in Stocks By TOM LAURICELLA European nations, flirting with recession, can’t agree on how to climb out from under their pile of debt. The U.S. is careening toward a budget fight that threatens to shut down the government. China’s mammoth economy may be downshifting. Getty ImagesEconomic fragility
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 From Phoenecia to Hayek to the ‘Cloud’ Human progress has always depended on spontaneous collaboration to harness dispersed knowledge. By MATT RIDLEY The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all.
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 Public employees in three Texas counties have benefited from an ‘Alternate Plan’ for 30 years. By MERRILL MATTHEWS Dallas To highlight the problems facing Social Security, Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is pointing to three Texas counties that decades ago opted out of Social Security by creating personal retirement
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 Palestinian Statehood and the Lessons of Oslo The U.N. deliberations are theater. There can be no avoiding direct negotiations. By FOUAD AJAMI ‘U.N. 194″ is the slogan of the campaign to grant the Palestinians a seat at the United Nations, to recognize their authority as the 194th nation in that world body.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, 10:12 A.M. ET The Fed ‘Twist’ That Won’t Dance Bond-buying creates an obvious conflict of interest because the Fed’s portfolio loses value if it raises interest rates. By DAVID MALPASS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Fed will get attaboys from markets if it buys more bonds. The bond market loves a whale,
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 There’s a reason that hatred of Israel played well on the Arab street. By JOSEF JOFFE I wasn’t alone, but the mea culpa is all mine. Like many, I thought that dawn was finally breaking over the Arab world when those nice, middle-class crowds thronged Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanting “freedom” and “democracy”
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 The president’s own economic words are coming back to haunt him.By STEPHEN MOORE Barack Obama now faces perhaps his most politically crippling deficit of all: a credibility deficit. That observation is reflected in the latest Bloomberg poll, which finds that on the heels of his big jobs speech last Thursday night, more
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