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• Rising executive pay behind income inequality 20 Jun 2011
• Germany: austerity, social unrest, protectionism, gold bunkers and other links 13 Jun 2010
• Public anger at Wall Street begins to boil over 10 Feb 2009

• The European Sovereign Debt Crisis is a solvency crisis 15 Aug 2011

• Pension execs connect pension problems to hiring 29 Dec 2009
• Lehman pension shortfall is a foreshadowing 23 Sep 2008
• Divorcing and re-marrying to collect a pension 20 Oct 2009

• The divergence of US worker and corporate interests 28 Jul 2008
• Rising economic nationalism 12 Apr 2011
• How to Regulate Mortgage Lending, Part 3 25 Jan 2011

• More free money from Google for site scrapers 26 Apr 2011
• Site Scrapers Find Free Money on the Web 3 Dec 2010

• Thoughts on LinkedIn 24 May 2011
• How weak is the U.S. employment market? 23 Apr 2009
• Ten Reasons Why This Has Been A Weak Recovery 17 Jun 2010

• Corporatism masquerading as Liberty 10 Feb 2011
• Ron Paul has Barack Obama’s number 10 Apr 2010
• Video: Ron Paul on Bernanke as Person of the Year 17 Dec 2009

• Make Markets Be Markets: The Report 5 Mar 2010
• Let Goldman fail next time 22 Oct 2009
• The Obama-Geithner Plan will fail 12 Feb 2009

• When the Facts Change 7 Apr 2010
• Economics Are Behind Brown Massachusetts Senate Win; Does It Matter For November? 14 Apr 2010

• Where’s the Land of Opportunity These Days? 20 May 2010
• Jeremy Grantham has ‘already started to sell’ 11 Nov 2010
• Grantham: Night of The Living Fed 26 Oct 2010

• Economic nationalism and GM’s decision to keep Opel and Vauxhall 5 Nov 2009
• The politicization of economic problems 18 Mar 2010
• Obama’s economic agenda for re-election 8 Nov 2010

• Fiscal policy limited in the UK and the US 5 Aug 2008
• A quick note on corporate bankruptcy and bailouts 2 Jan 2009
• Obama in his own words on the proposed tax cut deal 8 Dec 2010

• The Future is Streaming Content to Any Device, Anywhere and at Any Time 21 Dec 2010

From today's Breakfast with Dave research note at Gluskin Sheff (highlighting added):

1. An energy policy that truly removes U.S. dependence on foreign oil (shale case, coal, nuclear).
2. A complete rewrite of the tax code that promotes savings, investment, and a revamp of the capital stock. Cut tax rates, eliminate loopholes and costly tax breaks. Tax consumption, promote savings and investment. That is crucial. But it will take political courage (ask Brian Mulroney).
3. A credible plan that reverses the runup in the debt to GDP ratio. This includes not just on-balance sheet items but new rules governing entitlements too. We need delineation of the future of Fannie and Freddie if there is any … they became wards of the government nearly three years ago and there is still no clarification on this file (slightly more important than these periodic consumer spending gimmicks that have surfaced over the past few years). We need a complete rewrite of social contracts and a reversal in sacred cows that have been created over the years that are completely unaffordable. Plus, people are not going to learn to live within their means if our politicians continue to set a bad example. The act of dipping into Social Security, incentivizing companies who are already cash-rich to spend more on new equipment and extending a Bush tax cut that always had a 10-year expiry date at the expense of the already severely strained public purse was political expediency at its worst.

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