Archive for the ‘Financial Crisis’ Category
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The Declining Art of Negotiation
Posted on July 5, 2011
Otto Habsburg, the last heir to the throne of the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire and oldest member of the Habsburg family, died yesterday at the age of 98. The Habsburg family...
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Fireworks and Freedom
Posted on July 5, 2011
I am writing this blog post as I watch the Capitol Fourth on public television. When I worked on the Hill, I used to have access to the Capitol building,...
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Taking Himself Out
Posted on June 30, 2011
The President took himself out of the negotiation game yesterday with his hissy fit of a press conference where he castigated the Congress for not getting its work done when...
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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Debt and Taxes
Posted on June 27, 2011
Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes. These days, the same could probably be said for debt and...
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