nytimes.com - 4/8/2009
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I am really encouraged by President Obama’s commitment to clean energy and combating climate change. I just have three worries: whether he has the right policies, the right politics and the right official to sell his program to the country. Other than that, things look great! Last week, House ...
nytimes.com - 4/10/2009
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Thirty-plus years ago, when I was a graduate
student in economics, only the least ambitious of my...
classmates sought careers in the financial world. Even then, investment banks paid more than teaching or public service but not that much more, and ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Making Banking Boring
nytimes.com - 4/13/2009
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This is a column about Republicans and
I’m not sure I should even be writing it....
Today’s G.O.P. is, after all, very much a minority party. It retains some limited ability to obstruct the Democrats, but has no ability to make or even significantly ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Tea Parties Forever
nytimes.com - 4/3/2009
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Back in the early stages of the financial
crisis, wags joked that our trade with China had...
turned out to be fair and balanced after all: They sold us poison toys and tainted seafood; we sold them fraudulent securities. But these days, both sides of ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - China’s Dollar Trap
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“Cap-and-Trade is a Tax"
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the Ball, by Thomas Friedman, Commentary, NY Times: ...Last week, House
Democrats, with administration support, introduced a 600-page draft bill on
energy and climate. At the center of it is a plan to reduce greenhouse-gas
emissions through a complicated cap-and-trade system. These people have the very
best of intentions, but I wish they would step back and ask again: Can
cap-and-trade pass? Will it really work? And is it the best strategy, with all
the bureaucracy it will require to monitor, auction emissions permits and manage
the trading? ...
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... Regarding the Obama Administration's "cap and trade" carbon emission reduction proposal, Tom Friedman of the Times writes... ...
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