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Daily Archives: April 3rd, 2009

Friday Night Music for Hard Times

Friday, April 3, 2009

This week, rather than searching for a song by a specific artist, I decided to search for the best version(s) of a song. I first heard this song on an album of Stephen Foster’s music sung by Thomas Hampson, a classical music singer. The album is called American Dreamer, and if you think Stephen Foster […]

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Unintended consequences

Friday, April 3, 2009

Chris Hayes of the Nation, who many of us know from his frequent appearances on Countdown, has uncovered a truly marvelous example of corporate perversion of the tax laws: Thanks to an obscure tax provision, the United States government stands to pay out as much as $8 billion this year to the ten largest paper […]

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Courtney does good, Himes not so much

Friday, April 3, 2009

You would think that Congress would be wary of sanctioning more bonuses at bailed out institutions, particularly at AIG, but of course you’d only be partly right. Congress is more than happy to help those bankers, so long as it can do so in a way that, at least at the moment, is totally opaque […]

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