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Coming Boomer pension cuts

…be more losers than winners, with the repercussions for the youngest Boomers most severe: 26 percent of them would lose an average of $4,200 in retirement income, while 11 percent…

The Myth vs Numeric Reality: HR3200 v Medicare

…this point so hard? Are they really concerned about the specific tradeoffs represented by the above two charts (because wihin Medicare there are winners and losers)? I think not, instead…

Posing and posturing

rdan Daniel Kurtzman The posing and posturing hopefully will produce a partially reasonable plan for the overall benefit of US citizens. There will always be winners and losers, but let…

Final collapse of WTO Doha talks

…to the Drawing Board: No Basis for Concluding the Doha Round of Negotiations. Research and Information System for Developing Countries Issue Brief. No. 36, April 2008. [2] Sandra Polaski, Winners

Carbon cap and trade, good idea? Bad Idea?

…a grand scale — government picking winners and losers, all of whom will have powerful incentives to invest in lobbyists to influence government’s thousands of new wealth-allocating decisions. Lieberman’s legislation…

Water in the works in December 07

…since the first compact was drafted in 1922. And the manner in which it came about — no real winners or losers, but a cooperative regional effort to solve problems…