A non-profit Catholic group is fund-raising for what it says is a $10 million voter mobilization plan for the 2010 congressional elections with a direct mail piece that accuses President Obama of...
The New York Times Company-owned Worcester Telegram & Gazette has been taking a tough stance against illegal immigration in editorials such as this one, while the Times company's flagship has bee...
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/sulzberger-vs-sulzberger
From a direct-mail piece from "Hon. Donald L. Evans, chairman, George W. Bush Foundation," soliciting contributions to fund the "interactive exhibits and educational programs" of the Bush Preside...
Michael Hudson, chief economist of the Reform Task Force Latvia think-tank, has an intriguing op-ed in the Financial Times suggesting cutting taxes on wages while raising them on property: "Lower...
Carlyle and TPG are considering following in the footsteps of Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR and going public, the Financial Times reports. If they do, it's going to be interesting to see how it all...
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/public-equity-or-private-equity
The architect Norman Foster is quitting the British House of Lords ahead of a new rule requiring all peers to pay British taxes on their worldwide earnings, the New York Times reports in a cultur...
Another example of what I call "conspicuous abstention": The New York Times has an article today about a beverage company, Honest Tea, whose products prominently feature the claim, "no high-fruct...
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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett gives an "exclusive interview" to Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post in which he proclaims, "This economy is coming back." Asked about Nobel lauraete New Yo...
Amity Shlaes has a new column up on Bloomberg about parallels between now and the 1930s: "an unsustainable monetary construct," trade barriers, increasing taxes, and government-ordered higher wag...
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/amity-shlaes-on-depression-parallels
The Jerusalem Post (and Jeffrey Goldberg) catch CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs, Octavia Nasr, tweeting, "sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezb...
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/cnn-editor-hails-hezbollah-figure
From a new AllianceBernstein report on China by Anthony Chan: the important change has to be for Chinese households to increase their propensity to consume, but without excessive borrowing. This ...
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/alliancebernsteins-advice-for-china
Three environmentalists were arrested in Maine protesting a wind farm, reports the FutureOfCapitalism bureau in Brunswick. The story: Maine Earth First spokeswoman Emily Posner says one woman who...
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/another-anti-wind-campaign
Lloyd Grove has quite the dispatch from the Aspen Ideas Festival, notices Michael Barone, who is also there.
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/the-elite-turn-against-obama
The anti-windmill forces had a full page ad in the Vineyard Gazette over July 4 weekend. It's pretty well done and worth a look for anyone under the impression that, post-BP-spill, wind farms are...
David Frum's post on child poverty and income inequality has attracted some favorable attention from the Washington Examiner's E.D. Kain, who calls the Frum item "excellent and thought provoking....
http://localhost/capitalism/2010/07/david-frum-on-child-poverty