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PUBLIC RADIO'S MARKETPLACE COMMENTARIES:
"One Regulator to Rule Financial System
" June 3, 2009
"No Reason for Public Involvement in GM
" June 1, 2009
"A Fair Plan to Make College Affordable
" May 22, 2009
"Proposed Health Care Plans Miss Mark
" May 20, 2009
"Go after Tax Havens to help Health Care
" May 6, 2009
"Health Holds Priority Over Economy
" April 29, 2009
"President Obama's Overall Grade: C+
" April 22, 2009
"Demand is the Problem, not Lending
" April 15, 2009
"Hold CEOs of Big Banks Accountable
" April 8, 2009
"Money Will Make Wall Street Honest
" April 1, 2009
"Wall Street Rescue Plan Needs Rescuing
" March 18, 2009
"Time to enact Employee Free Choice Act
" March 11, 2009
"Introducing the era of Obamanomics
" March 4, 2009
"Reducing Ratio of Debt is the Real Issue
" February 25, 2009
"Americans Make Autos, Not Big Three
" February 18, 2009
"The Best Way to Move the Economy
" February 4, 2009
"Ban Lobbying from Bailed Out Firms
" January 28, 2009
"Smaller Stimulus for a Unified Congress
" January 21, 2009
"Focus on the Core Problems First
" January 7, 2009
"Have a Peaceful, Prosperous New Year
" December 31, 2008
"Still Reluctant to Change after Fallout
" December 24, 2008
"In Financial Crisis, It’s Still a Democracy
" December 17, 2008
"Three Rules for Obama’s Stimulus Plan
" December 10, 2008
"Where’s the Bailout for Human Capital?
" December 3, 2008
"We Need More Government Spending
" November 26, 2008
"General Motors Should Get Bailout, Too
" November 26, 2008
"Congress Needs to take Bailout Back
" November 19, 2008
"Obama Can't Change Washington Alone
" November 5, 2008
"Put Focus Back on the Unemployed
" October 29, 2008
"No Company Should Be Too Big To Fail
" October 22, 2008
"How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
" October 8, 2008
"MESSAGE TO CONGRESS AND WALL STREET: MAIN STREET'S BAD DEBTS ARE MOUNTING
" September 24, 2008
"Hurricanes, Global Warming, and the Boomers: Who Will Pay?
" September 10, 2008
"Corporations and the Conventions
" September 4, 2008
"Why Are Traffic Fatalities Dropping?
" August 20, 2008
"My First Job: A Reminiscence on Labor Day
" August 19, 2008
"The Real Competition Behind the Olympic Games
" August 8, 2008
"The End of the Great Moderation
" July 15, 2008
"The Disgrace of Our Shredded Unemployment Insurance System
" July 9, 2008
"The Wage Gap is being Fueled by the Gas Gap
" June 30, 2008
"The Great Pendulum of Economic Outrage Is About to Swing Again
" June 25, 2008
"With Gas at $4 a Gallon, We Need Public Transportation, But Why We Can't
Get It
" June 3, 2008
"Why the Democrats' Cap-and-Trade is Far Better than McCain's
" May 27, 2008
"The Best Thing Not to Have Happened During the Bush Administration
" April 29, 2008
"Figuring Out Your Taxes and Wall Street's Windfall
" March 31, 2008
"Moral Hazard
" March 24, 2008
"The American Recession and the World's Emerging Economies
" March 10, 2008
"American Banks: From Deregulation to Nationalization
" February 29, 2008
"The Battle of the Century
" February 13, 2008
"The Two Big Holes in the Unemployment Insurance
" February 6, 2008
"Thank You for Your Lousy Service
" January 2, 2008
"America's Biggest Divide
" December 24, 2007
"Drowning in Mortgage Debt: The Way Out?
" December 18, 2007
"It's the Economy, Stupid -- but Not Just the Current Slowdown.
" December 5, 2007
"Why the Telecoms Shouldn't Get Immunity
" November 28, 2007
"No Need for New Regulations to Avoid Another Sub-Prime Meltown: The Fed Already
Has the Authority" November 21, 2007
"The Daily Show and Chinese Pirates
" November 7, 2007
"Why Financial CEOs Earn So Much More Than Real-Economy CEOs
" October 31, 2007
"The Credit-Rating Mystery Solved
" October 24, 2007
"Corporations Won't Lead the Way on Solving Global Warming
" October 17, 2007
"Stop the Corporate Welfare for Agribusiness
" October 10, 2007
"The Nation Should Follow GM's Lead
" October 3, 2007
"Who Gets Bailed Out? You Guessed It.
" September 19, 2007
"How to Prevent a Recession? Use Fiscal Policy
" September 12, 2007
"The Real Economic Danger
" August 31, 2007
"What Happened to Labor Day?
" August 29, 2007
"Keeping Markets Honest
" August 22, 2007
"How to Tame the Financial Entrepreneurs
" August 15, 2007
"Financial Entrepreneurship Versus Product Entrepreneurship
" July 25, 2007
"The Many Children Still Left Behind Act
" July 18, 2007
"Hedges, Private Equity, and the Little Guy
" July 11, 2007
"The Best Way to Reduce Global Warming
" June 20, 2007
"A Better Class of Immigrants?
" June 6, 2007
"Stock Market Bull
" May 30, 2007
"What to Do About America's Rich Who Use Offshore Tax Havens
" May 23, 2007
"A Better Idea for College Loans
" May 16, 2007
"Private-Equity Baloney
" May 9, 2007
"The Supply-Side and the Record-Breaking Dow
" May 2, 2007
"Holding On
" April 25, 2007
"Guns, Anti-Depressants, and the Massacre in Virginia
" April 18, 2007
"The Real Scandal of Student Loans
" April 11, 2007
"Being Without Documents
" April 4, 2007
"How to Avoid a Killer Asteroid
" March 28, 2007
"Shareholders Won't Stop CEO Pay
" March 21, 2007
"Addressing Wall Street
" March 13, 2007
"China's Military Buildup and Its Economic Goals
" March 7, 2007
"Time to Join a Union (Or At Least Have the Right to)
" February 28, 2007
"A Labor Standard for Future Trade Deals
" February 21, 2007
"Balanced Budget Baloney
" February 14, 2007
"A Windfall Profits Tax on Oil to Finance Non-Fossil Fuels
"
February 7, 2007
"Home Wreckers"
January 31, 2007
"Bush’s Health Care Plan Deserves One Cheer, but One Cheer Only"
January 24, 2007
"Only Appearing to Clean House"
January 17, 2007
"Bad Medicine"
January 10, 2007
"Small Businesses Don’t Need a Minimum-Wage Tax Cut
"
January 3, 2007
"2006: The Year of Feeding at the Trough."
December 27, 2006
"When Charity Shouldn’t Begin at Home"
December 20, 2006
"Fixing What's Not Broken"
December 13, 2006
"Why The Public Can’t Do Anything About The Two Biggest Public Issues
"
December 6, 2006
"How Big Pharma Plans to Keep the Medicare Drug Money
"
November 29, 2006
"Paulson Has it Backwards"
November 22, 2006
"The Global Capitalist Menace"
November 15, 2006
"What the Democrats Should Do Now"
November 8, 2006
"The Hoped for Death of a Movie"
October 25, 2006
"How to Deal With a Madman with Nuclear Weapons"
October 11, 2006
"Democrats Should Talk About Inequality"
October 4, 2006
"A Few Hundred Super Novas"
September 27, 2006
"The Future of American Auto Making"
September 20, 2006
"House of Ill-Repute"
September 13, 2006
"To the Fed: Don't Raise Rates"
September 6, 2006
"How to Reduce Urban Poverty Without Really Trying"
August 30, 2006
"The Sixty-Four Thousand Dollar Question"
August 23, 2006
"Whose Competitive Edge?"
August 16, 2006
"Congress’s Punt on Pensions"
August 9, 2006
"Abolish the Sales Tax"
August 2, 2006
"Back-Dating the SEC" (Update)
July 20, 2006
"Paul Atkins’ Wonderful World of Stock Options"
July 19, 2006
"Not Raining on the President’s Parade"
July 12, 2006
"The Minimum Wage, Immigration, and Election-Year Politics"
July 5, 2006
"The End of the Housing Bubble"
June 28, 2006
"The Specter of Deflation"
June 20, 2006
"The Truth about Detroit"
June 14, 2006
"Estate Tax Outrage"
June 7, 2006
"Henry Paulson’s Challenge"
May 31, 2006
"Go After Crooked Executives, Not Entire Companies"
May 31, 2006
"The President is Right, at least on Pensions"
May 29, 2006
"Irresponsible and Obscene"
May 15, 2006
"The War of Internet Democracy"
May 10, 2006
"Google Politics"
May 3, 2006
"You Can Bank on Wal-Mart"
April 26, 2006
"Of Job Buy-backs and Integrity Buy-backs"
April 19, 2006
"Two Cheers for Massachusetts"
April 12, 2006
"Why American Nest Eggs are Shrinking"
April 5, 2006
"How to Control Illegal Immigration"
March 29, 2006
"The Fallacy of Chinese Containment"
March 22, 2006
"Raising Debt the Wrong Way"
March 15, 2006
"Better Management, not Better Organization Charts"
March 8, 2006
"Dubai and Our Ports: Who’s Taking Over What?"
March 1, 2006
"Logging Off on China"
February 22, 2006
"Chickens and Eggs in New Orleans"
February 15, 2006
"Bad Planning"
February 8, 2006
"To Ben Bernanke"
February 1, 2006
"Two Cheers for Alan"
January 25, 2006
"The Float"
January 18, 2006
"The Chinese Express"
January 11, 2006
"China: Capitalism Doesn't Require Democracy "
January 4, 2006
"Our Worrisome MDP "
December 28, 2005
"Business And The Rule Of Law"
December 21, 2005.
"Medicaid And The Middle Class"
December 14, 2005.
"The Budget Deficit And Class Politics"
December 7, 2005.
"'Tis The Season To Be Broke"
November 30, 2005.
"The End Of The War"
November 23, 2005.
"Why We Should De-Couple Health Care from Employment"
November 16, 2005.
"The Lesson About Trade"
November 9, 2005.
"A Point Of Light"
November 2, 2005.
"A Bankruptcy Plan For New Orleans And The Gulf"
October 19, 2005.
"Will Greenspan Be Replaced By A Crony?"
October 12, 2005.
"Miers And The Economy"
October 5, 2005.
"Shared Sacrifice?"
September 28, 2005.
"Uncle Sam Goes To Market"
September 21, 2005.
"Chop Pork"
September 14, 2005.
"The Immediate Goal"
September 7, 2005.
"Soaring Fuel Prices: What Congress Should Do When It Returns "
August 31, 2005.
"Does American Business Still Care About The Nation’s Schools?"
August 24, 2005.
"Guns At Work"
August 17, 2005.
"Roberts And Federalism"
August 10, 2005.
"How China Will Burst America’s Housing Bubble"
August 3, 2005.
"A Reasonable Compromise On The Estate Tax"
July 27, 2005.
"The China Dilemma"
July 20, 2005.
"Balance Sheets Still Unbalanced "
July 13, 2005.
"What Africa Really Needs"
July 6, 2005.
"Americans Still Deserve A Raise"
June 29, 2005.
"From Unemployment Insurance To Re-Employment Insurance"
June 21, 2005.
"Frill America"
June 15, 2005.
"Good For The Street?"
June 8, 2005.
"Pricking The Housing Bubble"
June 1, 2005.
"Which Path To Energy Independence?"
May 25, 2005.
"What's Afta NAFTA? Hopefully, A Better CAFTA."
May 18, 2005.
"Non Attention To Non-Proliferation"
May 11, 2005.
"Changing The Subject"
May 4, 2005.
"The Democrats And The China Card"
April 27, 2005.
"The Two Faces Of Bankruptcy"
April 20, 2005.
"The Real Crisis"
April 13, 2005.
"Who's Drafted To Fight The Fed’s Preemptive War Against Inflation"
April 6, 2005.
"Who Should Get Scholarships?"
March 30, 2005.
"Merger Mania Redux"
March 23, 2005.
"Who's Gaining As We Go Deeper Into Hock?"
March 16, 2005.
"Another Solution To The Wrong Problem"
March 9, 2005.
"Want Good Schools? Start By Paying For Them."
March 2, 2005.
"The China Card"
February 23, 2005.
"The End of the “I Didn’t Know” Defense?"
February 16, 2005.
"The Boomers, The Budget, And The So-Called Bust"
February 9, 2005.
"The Revenge Of The Bond Traders"
February 2, 2005.
"The Bush Debt"
January 26, 2005.
"Cheers for the President's Ownership Society"
January 19, 2005.
"Saving Nothing"
January 12, 2005.
"Disaster Relief: Not Made in America"
January 5, 2005.
"The Holiday Week"
December 29, 2004.
"Toothless Tigers and "Tort Reform""
December 22, 2004.
"The Topic Should Be China"
December 15, 2004.
"Afta NAFTA comes CAFTA"
December 8, 2004.
"Who’s Responsible for the Trash? "
December 1, 2004.
"A Gift of Gold"
November 24, 2004.
"Why Privatizing Social Security is a Really Dumb Idea"
November 17, 2004.
"Bush’s Republican Problem"
November 10, 2004.
"The Moral Agenda"
November 3, 2004.
"The Trickle-Down Tax Revolt"
October 27, 2004.
"Government And The Flu"
October 20, 2004.
"Free Advice To The Candidates: The Real Economic Issue"
October 13, 2004.
"Real Intelligence"
October 6, 2004.
"Getting Tough With Fannie"
September 29, 2004.
"The Real Battle In The Battle Ground"
September 22, 2004.
"Bankruptcy: The Real Story"
September 15, 2004.
"The Truth About The Job Numbers"
September 8, 2004.
"What Ownership Society?"
September 1, 2004.
"Who Really Picks the Next President"
August 26, 2004.
"Who Pays And How"
August 18, 2004.
"Government As Insurer"
August 11, 2004.
"The Jobs Number"
August 4, 2004.
"The Massachusetts Liberal?"
July 28, 2004.
"Greenspan's Pre-Emptive Strike"
July 21, 2004.
"Re-Slicing The Economic Pie"
July 14, 2004.
"The Confidence Game"
July 7, 2004.
"No Option, No Brainer"
June 30, 2004.
"Iraq And The Fed"
June 23, 2004.
"Buying Drugs In Bulk"
June 16, 2004.
"The End Of The Grand Bargain"
June 9, 2004.
"Trickle-Up Economics"
June 2, 2004.
"Why Oil Prices are Rising"
May 26, 2004.
"Ending the "Working Poor""
May 19, 2004.
"The End Of Easy Money"
May 12, 2004.
"The Next S&L Crisis"
May 5, 2004.
"The College Cut-Off"
April 28, 2004.
"Wal-Mart is Too Big"
April 21, 2004.
"The Incredible Shrinking Corporate Tax Bill"
April 14, 2004.
"A Failure of Intelligence and Economics"
April 7, 2004.
"Why Are We Still Bailing Out the Airlines?"
March 31, 2004.
"Outsourcing And America’s High-Tech Future"
March 23, 2004.
"Greenspan Redux"
March 17, 2004.
"The Town Drunk"
March 10, 2004.
"Pumping And Dumping"
March 3, 2004.
"No Free Lunch"
February 25, 2004.
"To: Greg Mankiw, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors."
February 18, 2004.
"Democratic Economics"
February 11, 2004.
"The Balloon Clause"
February 4, 2004.
"Who Owns New Knowledge?"
January 28, 2004.
"How to Respond to America’s Needs"
January 21, 2004.
"It’s Still Jobs, Stupid"
January 14, 2004.
"Republican Pork"
December 24, 2003.
"Iraq’s Debt"
December 17, 2003.
"The Incredible Shrinking Dollar"
December 10, 2003.
"Steelyard Blues"
December 3, 2003.
"Seniors Up, Juniors Still Down"
November 26, 2003.
"Watching Over Fannie And Freddie"
November 18, 2003.
"Low On Energy"
November 12, 2003.
"Why Factory Jobs Are Disappearing -- All Over"
November 5, 2003.
"Drug Money"
October 29, 2003.
"The Ethical Collapse Continues"
October 22, 2003.
"Dollar Diplomacy"
October 15, 2003.
"California Hangover"
October 8, 2003.
"The Ongoing Scandal On The Street"
October 1, 2003.
"A War Tax On The Very Wealthy"
September 24, 2003.
"Bringing Back Manufacturing"
September 17, 2003.
"Poor Nations Need To Trade"
September 10, 2003.
"School Daze"
September 3, 2003.
"A Dirty Air Act"
August 27, 2003.
"Media Ownership Redux"
August 20, 2003.
"A National Minimum Vacation"
August 13, 2003.
"Verizon"
August 6, 2003.
"Have Corporate Earnings Really Turned Around?"
July 30, 2003.
"The Recession’s Over! Or Is It?"
July 23, 2003.
"Baseball’s Favorite Game"
July 15, 2003.
"Housing Trouble"
July 9, 2003.
"Jobs Are Everything"
July 2, 2003.
"The New Drug Benefit: A Squandered Opportunity For Reform"
June 25, 2003.
"Human Capital Is Our Greatest Asset, And We’re Squandering It"
June 11, 2003.
"Sheltering Everything Except America"
June 4, 2003.
"Globalization Isn't To Blame For Our Job Losses"
May 28, 2003.
"New College Grads Don’t Need Another Degree"
May 21, 2003.
"Going It Alone On The Dollar"
May 14, 2003.
"The Real Economic Choice Ahead"
May 7, 2003.
"Pulling Together?"
Apr 30, 2003.
"Whose Oil?"
Apr 23, 2003.
"The Home as Nest Egg"
Apr 16, 2003.
"Now That the War is Over, It's the Economy, Stupid"
Apr 9, 2003.
"Rebuilding Iraq"
Apr 2, 2003.
"Wall Street and the War"
Mar 26, 2003.
"America Goes It Alone"
Mar 19, 2003.
"Good Corporate Governance Isn't Always Good Corporate Citizenship"
Mar 12, 2003.
"Oil and Deflation"
Mar 5, 2003.
"Betting the Ranch"
Feb 26, 2003.
"Pork in a Time of Terrorism"
Feb 19, 2003.
"How Long Will This Bear Last?"
Feb 12, 2003.
"The President's Deficits"
Feb 5, 2003.
"The President's New Interest In Domestic Policy"
Jan 29, 2003.
"What's Happening To Our Schools"
Jan 22, 2003.
"This Jobless Recovery Is Worse Than The Last"
Jan 16, 2003.
"How Not to Stimulate the Economy"
Jan 8, 2003.
"The Holiday That Won’T Stop"
Jan 1, 2003.
"Tooth Fairies And Economic Plans"
Dec. 18, 2002.
"The End Of The Christmas Bonus"
Dec. 11, 2002.
"Extend Unemployment Benefits!"
Dec. 4, 2002.
"The New Era of Big Government"
November 27, 2002.
"It's Already Christmas in Washington"
November 19, 2002.
"Cut the Payroll Tax"
November 13, 2002.
"Bush Isn't Happy This Morning"
November 6, 2002.
"The States in the Hole"
October 30, 2002.
"Wall Street Can’t Afford to Backtrack on Reform"
October 23, 2002.
"Why The Economy Isn’t Being Talked About, Although It’s On Everyone’s Mind"
October 9, 2002.
"Back To Normal?"
December 14, 2001.
"Learning a Hard Lesson about Company Stock Plans"
December 6, 2001.
"What's Happening at the Grass Roots"
November 16, 2001.
"Why Bush's Trade
Agenda Is Going Nowhere"
November 8, 2001.
"Will Terrorism
Stall Globalization?"
November 2, 2001.
"The House Stimulus
Package Is An Outrage"
October 25, 2001.
"Underlying Strengths?"
October 19, 2001.
"Sacrifice Or Spend?"
October 11, 2001.
"The Fiscal Response Is Too Tepid"
October 5, 2001.
"Circuit Breakers For Layoffs"
September 28, 2001.
"A Stimulus Right Now, Aimed at Lower-Wage Workers"
September 27, 2001.
"American Optimism and Consumer Confidence"
September 18, 2001.
"Finding our Enemy"
September 13, 2001.
"Security and Privacy"
September 12, 2001.
"The Blame Game Over The Stock Bubble"
September 9, 2001.
"The Butcher Is Back"
August 24, 2001.
"Prescription Drugs and More"
August 16, 2001.
"The New Post-Industrial Struggle"
August 10, 2001.
"American Vacations"
July 20, 2001.
"An Unemployment Recession?"
July 5, 2001.
"What Happened to Marriage,"
June 21, 2001.
"Why You're Spending More Time in Airports
,"
June 8, 2001.
"Cutting Taxes?"
June 7, 2001.
"A "C" To Success,"
May 24, 2001.
"Russian Capitalism,"
April 26, 2001.
"The Real Economic Drag,"
April 12, 2001.
"No Escape,"
February 2, 2001.
"American Sweatshops,"
January 18, 2001.
"Look Who's
Missing From The President-Elect's Economic Summit,"
January 4, 2001.
"Scrooge is
Alive and Well and Living in America,"
December 21, 2000.
"Giving Thanks,"
November 23, 2000.
"Who Won the
Presidency," November 9, 2000.
"What the Candidates Arenít
Telling You about Social Security," October 16, 2000.
"Ten-year Budgets Donít
Exit," October 12, 2000.
"When Government Buys and
Sells," September 28, 2000.
"Who's Setting the New
Rules?" September 14, 2000.
"Bad Actors,"
August 31, 2000.
"The Real
Convention," August 17, 2000.
"A Republican Convention in
The City of Brotherly Love," August 3, 2000.
"What They Won't Tell You
About Taxes," July 20, 2000.
"America the
Stingy," July 6, 2000.
"Prescription Drugs for the
Elderly, Politics, and My Birthday," June 22, 2000.
"When
the Fed Picks the Presidents," June 8, 2000.
"Coolidgeomics,"
May 25, 2000.
"Prison Labor,"
May 11, 2000.
"The Candidate's Non-Debate
about Social Security," April 27, 2000.
"The Real
Target," April 13, 2000.
"What Happened to
Loyalty?," March 30, 2000.
"A Plea to Alan
Greenspan," March 16, 2000.
"The Corporate Tax Shelter
Industry," March 2, 2000.
"The Marriage
Penalty," February 17, 2000.
"What Expansion?," February
3, 2000.
"The Free Trade President,"
January 20, 2000.
"Dump Dumping," January 6,
2000.
"Carded," December 24,
1999.
"What Seattle Means,"
December 9, 1999.
"A Thanksgiving Feast,"
November 24, 1999.
"Auditors Asleep," November
11, 1999.
"The New Careerism,"
October 28, 1999.
"What If China Devalues?,"
October 14, 1999.
"Love Affair Between Big Business
and Big Labor," September 30, 1999.
"What If The Bubble
Bursts?," September 16, 1999.
"Labor Day," September 2,
1999.
"Budget Surplus?," August
19, 1999.
"Immigration Law and High Tech
Jobs," August 5, 1999.
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