What CEOs and corporations are getting in comparison to what workers are getting: Jim Webb: This ever-widening divide is too often ignor...

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France embraced it long ago, and it’s paying big dividends… Because nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases, France has the cleanest air in the ...

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One of the brains behind the economic theory has harsh words for the current crop of fiscal conservatives. From the NY Times: AS one who was present at the creation of “supply-side economics” back in the 1970s, I think it is long past time tha...

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Steve Forbes gives Rudy his backing…which doesn’t mean all that much. What’s interesting is that Rudy seems to be flirting with F...

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Romney’s new either/or proposition on taxes is just the politics of division, plain and simple. As if you only have the choices of a European tax system or adopt the Reagan t...

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Somehow, I don’t think this is what Bush meant… WASHINGTON - People once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pu...

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The minimum wage bill saw a lot of action in the Senate but few actual results. As promised, Harry Reid let the Republicans propose a line-i...

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A few days ago I slammed Democrats for hypocritically exempting American Samoa from the new minimum wage law. In passing, I noted that one of the be...

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Ben Stein (yes, that one) recently sat down with one of the richest men in the world and discussed wealth, the rich and the war on the wo...

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I’ve come up with a couple of out-there ideas — one on the minimum wage, the other on campaign contributions. I don’t pretend th...

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