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Project Syndicate
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Internet Name-Calling
A new Web address system will confuse users and cost business, but Internet bureaucrats like it.
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What's French for "Totally Screwed"?
If France's economy is in trouble, then all of Europe is at risk.
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A Dim Bulb of an Idea
Banning incandescent light bulbs isn't the smartest way to tackle global warming.
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The Tea Party's Circular Logic
Its revolt undermines the private sector more than it reins in "big government."
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Is Capitalism Doomed?
Karl Marx was right that globalization, financial intermediation, and income redistribution could lead capitalism to self-destruct.
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Dumb Ideas From Both Sides of the Atlantic
European banks and American politicians are both making serious economic mistakes.
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Deluded About Debt
How one misleading statistic has made investors, and politicians, irrationally afraid of debt.
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How To Save Europe
Helping Greece avert default will also help save the euro and the Eurozone.
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What if the Government Defaults?
Economic chaos: Massive unemployment, no credit, depleted savings, long lines at ATMs.
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Unholy Green Alliance
Beware of activists and businesses agreeing on solutions to climate change.
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The Great Recession, Part II
The world could be headed for another economic disaster if we continue to listen to free-market ideologues.
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A Capital Idea
European banks—and the European economy—would benefit from stricter capital requirements.
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Bigger, Safer, More Regulated
What the U.S. financial industry could learn from Chinese banks—and Chinese banking regulators.
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Go Ahead, Share My Data
How companies can turn privacy from threat to opportunity by giving sensitive consumer data to customers.
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That Stalling Feeling
Can anything prevent a double-dip recession? Governments are running out of tools to avert it.
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How To Fix the Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations' do-gooding plan doesn't help enough people. Here's the logical way to improve it.
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How To Choose the IMF's Next Leader
It's time to abandon the corrupt practices and secretive agreements that have steered the organization so wrong.
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Insuring Against Economic Collapse
How Japan and other nations can soften the blow when economic growth slows.
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Change-Is-Hard.com
The Internet can help foment revolutions, but the hard work of democracy takes place mostly offline.
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The Myth of "Energy Security"
It's become a synonym for lazy, expensive policies that don't cut oil imports or reduce climate change.
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A Limit to Their Insanity
Why Republicans will eventually vote to raise the debt ceiling.
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Can Europe Be Saved?
Time is running out to rescue the economies of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain.
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Listen to the IMF, America
Even the International Monetary Fund now admits that total deregulation of financial markets was a mistake. The U.S. should take heed.
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Proud of What?
Why the Federal Reserve and other central banks shouldn't brag about their response to the Great Recession.
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The Failure of "Too Big To Fail"
Why focus on the size of banks? Great Britain shows other ways to achieve financial reform.
