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Fixing the Housing Crunch

Washington Post

Amid the cascade of worrisome economic news, nowhere has the data been more disturbing than in the housing arena.

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How the Levers Fell Off the Buyout Machine

Financial Times

Whither private equity, in the wake of its descent from a “golden age” to the dog house in a handful of months? Few businesses or individuals (save, perhaps, Bear Stearns or Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor) have fallen so far, so quickly.

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Fudging the Budget

New York Times

When President Bush sent his new budget to Congress yesterday, he trumpeted a continuing decline in the deficit and projected a swing back into the black by 2012.

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The New York Times: Biden’s Get-Tough-on-China Tariffs May Backfire

The tide of globalization is receding, at least from American shores. Two successive presidents have...

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“[a] surprisingly modest account…Rattner has a journalistic talent for the telling detail, resulting in a memorable tale of life in the middle of the economic meltdown...Rattner deftly draws portraits of the inhabitants of "the Oval" and the West Wing...Rattner has proved himself a gifted chronicler.”
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