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Daily Archives: June 6th, 2013

The least surprising news of the year

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Why am I not surprised that the NSA is monitoring our phone calls? Why am I not surprised that this intrusion into our private lives is the one issue in which the cherished goal of “bi-partisanship” has been reached, for Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike seem to think it’s great. The real question is: why […]

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Fresh from the Department of Redundancy Department

Thursday, June 6, 2013

David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times reporter on economic issues, analyzes a recent study of wealth among five nations among those with the richest economies and concludes: “In short, what the paper shows is this: Inequality is a product of government policy.” (via Widening Economic Inequality in United States Is […]

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