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Is America Ready for More Old Men? - Room for Debate
The life span gap between men and women is narrowing. What will society be like with more men living longer?I doubt it will be much different.We will find out. -
Gina Pera
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In Defense of Antidepressants
“In Defense of Antidepressants - Peter Kramer sets the naysayers straight (including grandstanding Marcia Angell) http://nyti.ms/pbLjVU”Get the literature right the first time.
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Bachmann's Bridge: Worth Building? - Room for Debate
Michele Bachmann is pushing an expensive bridge for her district. Democrats support it too. Should it be built?A bridge is called for . Is it this bridge?Build the bridge which the law allows. -
Reform China's Private Sector - Room for Debate
The supply of Chinese college graduates is only “excessive” relative to the underdevelopment of its private sector.China has become a technocracy.Education now means trade school in China.They have no place for scholars. -
Moving Out in Madrid - Room for Debate
In many European cities, the population on the periphery has boomed.Get newer statistics.Renting credit is far more profitable than renting rooms. -
If You Save, You Have to Take Risks - Room for Debate
What do low interest rates and rising consumer prices mean for the frugal American who is terrified of the word 'portfolio'?A bank has a small advantage over a mattress. It is harder to steal a bank account and a bank account is not lumpy like a wad of cash.Banks are businesses. They will pay no more for deposits than they must. They will charge as much for credit as they can.Small savers save to sequester cash against future need.The food budget and the rent is safe from the drunk. -
mhoser
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‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
If, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan posited half a century ago, the culture of poverty had its roots in and replicated itself through a lack of family structure and single motherhood, it will be interesting (and probably heartbreaking) to see the future outcomes experienced in this country as 40% of all children in this country are now borne out of wedlock. It is also interesting as recent studies indicate that marriage rates are now higher and divorce rates lower for the college educated as opposed to their less-advantaged brethren. Given this, should we really be surprised that rising numbers of children are in poverty, or that we have growing income inequality, or that social mobility out of poverty in the United States is now less than in much of Europe? It should be clear by now that the deterioration of social mores in the sixties has been an unqualified disaster, especially for the lower social classes. As social acceptance of the unacceptable became commonplace as the chattering classes rejected the staid family based morality of the Eisenhower years, we have only spread the desolation of poverty and deepened the chasm between our poor and the elites at the top of the heap. Frankly, were one to wish to perpetuate poverty and permanently abuse poor segments of the population for the benefit of the wealthier segments of our society, one could not have done better than the mess our Hollywood and societal elites have inflicted lo these last fifty years or so. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might be temporary indulgences for the children of our elites, but they are terrible prescriptions for our poor.
I wonder which bridge this troll lives under.
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Mike Colicchio
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Rep. Christopher Lee of New York Resigns Over Shirtless Photo#comments
Just another example of how nothing good ever happens on craigslist...eewGawker said the woman, a government employee who asked not to be identified, eventually stopped contacting Mr. Lee after she searched for his name online and discovered that he was lying about his profession and his age. The woman then sent the e-mails to Gawker. Hunting.
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Is America Ready for More Old Men? - Room for Debate
Not a question.
Here they are. Preparation won't change the facts.
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Rep. Christopher Lee of New York Resigns Over Shirtless Photo#comments
Just another example of how nothing good ever happens on craigslist...eewChild pornography?
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Building a More Resilient Male - Room for Debate
Men have been gaining skills and values that make them more capable of caring for themselves and for others.True. This has little to do with population dynamics. -
Manufacturers Are Coming Back to the U.S. - Room for Debate
Corporations large and small are moving production of off-shored products back to the U.S. at lower overall cost and better quality.I wish this were so. As far as I can figure it is not so. -
ZekeDigitalGroup
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Lynsey Addario: 'It's What I Do' — Why She Will Cover War Again
Lynsey Addario was freed from captivity in Libya on March 21, along with Tyler Hicks, Stephen Farrell and Anthony Shadid. Nine days later, in New York, she sat down with James Estrin, Kerri MacDonald and David Furst to share her thoughts on the ex...OK.Social manipulation is what you do. It is a necessary thing.Our world is better for it.
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Kurt
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‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
If, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan posited half a century ago, the culture of poverty had its roots in and replicated itself through a lack of family structure and single motherhood, it will be interesting (and probably heartbreaking) to see the future outcomes experienced in this country as 40% of all children in this country are now borne out of wedlock. It is also interesting as recent studies indicate that marriage rates are now higher and divorce rates lower for the college educated as opposed to their less-advantaged brethren. Given this, should we really be surprised that rising numbers of children are in poverty, or that we have growing income inequality, or that social mobility out of poverty in the United States is now less than in much of Europe? It should be clear by now that the deterioration of social mores in the sixties has been an unqualified disaster, especially for the lower social classes. As social acceptance of the unacceptable became commonplace as the chattering classes rejected the staid family based morality of the Eisenhower years, we have only spread the desolation of poverty and deepened the chasm between our poor and the elites at the top of the heap. Frankly, were one to wish to perpetuate poverty and permanently abuse poor segments of the population for the benefit of the wealthier segments of our society, one could not have done better than the mess our Hollywood and societal elites have inflicted lo these last fifty years or so. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might be temporary indulgences for the children of our elites, but they are terrible prescriptions for our poor.Kurt is a troll. He objects to secular social manipulation.
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Tyson Evans
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Lynsey Addario: 'It's What I Do' — Why She Will Cover War Again
Lynsey Addario was freed from captivity in Libya on March 21, along with Tyler Hicks, Stephen Farrell and Anthony Shadid. Nine days later, in New York, she sat down with James Estrin, Kerri MacDonald and David Furst to share her thoughts on the ex...It is her right. I will buy her product.You are doing good things.I worry that our government in trying to do good thingsis doing the wrong things.
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Leah
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More on the debt records of Hoover and FDR.
Dr. Krugman refuses to answer his critics on this point, forcing the conclusion that he has no answer. First, PK keeps insisting that FDR's policies, setting aside the Constitution, civil liberties, and the rule of law, establishing a central command-and-control DC bureaucracy to interrupt terms of trade, raising marginal tax rates by a factor of three, and setting up various Federal employment programs "helped", and would have helped more had he only done more of it. His ideology is impervious to facts, such as those documented by Amity Schlaes in her book ("The Forgotten Man") with thousands of footnotes. The Great Depression was created by Hoover and FDR because of these mistaken policies. The excuse that both great men can use is that we did not understand in 1932 how destructive these policies are. Neither Dr. Krugman nor President Obama have this excuse. Further, Krugman's impervious ideology disregards the contemporaneous example of successful government policy: Doing nothing. This is what the government did in response to the great 1920 slump (except, of course, cut taxes). The 1920 recession was NOT converted into a depression by government inaction. Recovery was rapid, robust, and prolonged, at least until the bursting of the next bubble caused by the Fed. http://mises.org/daily/3788 If the United States is to survive the current calamity, policy makers must begin by learning the histories taught to us by the Great Depression. Not by ignoring the historical facts because their ideology cannot accept the fact that no problem is so big that Government cannot make it bigger.Sean is a troll. This comment is a red herring. Ignore it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_economicshttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/dismal-thoughts/
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New York's Distinctive Approach to Tech Start-Ups - Room for Debate
A breakout success will probably look very different from Apple and Facebook.The powers in New York have decided that manufacturing will not be done in their city. -
Why Buying American Can Save the U.S. Economy - Room for Debate
More U.S. manufacturing jobs not only reduce the unemployment rate, but also expand the tax base to pay for benefits.". And that is just getting us to a trade balance, so we can quickly dismiss accusations of protectionism." How?In order to buy at all there must be some income.Demand drives. Supply without demand is bankruptcy.Demand without supply is enforced saving.Manufacturing multiplies wealth.It does not generate it from nothing.
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