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 Thursday, 16 October 2008
Amidst the turmoil in the financial markets, important policy issues have fallen by the wayside: can the US economy support a $16,000,000,000,000 ($16 trillion) deficit—or is this ‘tilt'?
Tommy, hero of the 1975 movie of the same name, “always got the replay, never tilts at all.” While the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Congress play one ball after the other, we're watching those buzzers, bells, and flashing lights for a score.
The Feds have put a lot of motion into their game. FRB Chairman Bernanke had estimated that the central bank had plowed $800 billion into the financial system as of several weeks ago. That excludes $200 billion for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the $250 billion bank investment, and the $700 billion the Treasury expects to spend purchasing soured mortgages... |
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 Friday, 14 March 2008
While PT's servers never approached meltdown, a number of our readers sent in their choices for our “Top 10” policy issues. We have our own ideas, but wanted to know yours. Throughout the comments – those posted on the site and received by e–mail – there was a similar undercurrent: that as a nation, we have been ill served by the lack of intelligent debate on issues that concern us most.
But, here you go—the sealed envelope, please. Let's start with the easy ones: (1) Education and (2) Healthcare. Writes Lisa Buhler, “I would like to see a discussion on the healthcare system – national healthcare has not worked for other countries – why would... |
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 The ideas sound wonderful, but without the political machinery to make them happen, are they any more than make-believe?
Americans like a good fight, and the presidential primaries have certainly prov... |
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 Missing in Iowa: a dose of Midwestern common sense? In Meredith Wilson's 1957 Broadway hit, The Music Man, Professor Harold Hill arrives in Iowa to sell the citizens of River City a boys' band. Fifty years later,... |
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“Our Partnership”: New Regs for REAL ID His views on “our Federalism” aside, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff' might have stepped out of a vintage World War II movie with Janua... |
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In the coming issues, PT will cover people and policies in the following areas. Let us know whether they're on your “Top 10” list. And, if not, what are your “Top 10”? Top 10 Policy ... |
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Lawmakers across the country struggle daily to b...
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- Friday, 15 September 2006
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- However sacred it may be, the Second Amendment is ...
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- PT talks to Professor Franklin Zimring, William G....
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- PT talks to Carolyn McCarthy, U.S. Congresswoman f...
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- “Our Partnership”: New Regs for REAL I...
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- Wednesday, 05 September 2007
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- If state legislators want to reclaim their place i...
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- Wednesday, 05 September 2007
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- Constitutional ConsiderationsLegal experts add the...
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