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Thinking Analytically: March 2009
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Thinking about critical public issues. Friday, March 20, 2009. Let’s Get Moving! 8220;Mobility is part of the American dream,” proclaims an article in. But Americans’ ability to deal with economic shocks in their traditional fashion of picking up and moving on is being seriously threatened by two things. First, a 27 percent decline in housing prices since 2006 that has left countless homeowners “upside down” and unable to sell their homes. We continually hear that life won’t get better until our ec...
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Thinking Analytically: February 2009
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Thinking about critical public issues. Thursday, February 26, 2009. The Economy and a Tough Moral Question. The New York Times. Reported this week on a trend underway in some states to abolish the death penalty to save costs. If you live in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Montana, Maryland or New Mexico you’ve probably been living with this news for a while before the New York Times reported it. The latter three states are viewed as most likely to take the legislative action. The New York Times.
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Thinking Analytically: The Pall of Global Warming
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Thinking about critical public issues. Thursday, March 12, 2009. The Pall of Global Warming. We’ve been in the recession since December 2007. But we’ve been in the gloom and doom of global warming for a lot longer than that. But, let’s be clear. “Green Fatigue,” as some commentators are dubbing American weariness with the global warming hoopla, does not mean Americans have stopped caring about the environment. It means. Americans are tired of global warming. In fact, the Gallup Poll presented eight envir...
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Thinking Analytically: From Depression to Enlightenment
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Thinking about critical public issues. Wednesday, March 4, 2009. From Depression to Enlightenment. In search of a little sunshine in their lives, many Americans may try to stay out of the deluge of dreary economic news raining down everywhere by just looking the other way. Does it really make that much difference how erratically the Dow Jones Index performs today? Opinion piece by Harvard University Economics Professor Robert Barro, posted on. Barro, a fellow at. The US. macro-economy has been so tam...
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Thinking Analytically: Turning a Page
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Thinking about critical public issues. Monday, March 16, 2009. On a day earlier this month when the New York Times. Was asking whether there could soon be a major U.S. city without a daily newspaper, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Was releasing a survey that found only 33 percent of respondents said they would miss their local paper a lot if it disappeared. Spend a Saturday listening to a parade of youth who are no one’s idea of a representative sample of teenagers, but an intere...
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Thinking Analytically: January 2009
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Thinking about critical public issues. Saturday, January 31, 2009. Solar Energy: Hype vs. Reality. In the wake of growing concern about coping with global climate change, the State of California and some local government agencies are attempting to reduce their dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy through solar energy. . An article . In Los Angeles Daily News today by reporter Rick Orlov, Staff Writer provides some interesting perspectives that provides important analysis of a big solar initiative.
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Thinking Analytically: Reason to Believe
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Thinking about critical public issues. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. The shopper walked into a local drugstore to retrieve a prescription. No stranger to the impulse buy, she succumbed to the retailer’s lure of a colorful end-cap of hair-care products near the entrance. There, on the cardboard shelf talker were the words she digested and then audibly reinterpreted in a whisper of wonder, “Wow! They are giving things away now.”. The Consumer Confidence Index. The index of consumer expectations for business cond...
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Thinking Analytically: Let’s Get Moving!
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Thinking about critical public issues. Friday, March 20, 2009. Let’s Get Moving! 8220;Mobility is part of the American dream,” proclaims an article in. But Americans’ ability to deal with economic shocks in their traditional fashion of picking up and moving on is being seriously threatened by two things. First, a 27 percent decline in housing prices since 2006 that has left countless homeowners “upside down” and unable to sell their homes. We continually hear that life won’t get better until our ec...
