Recently added articles from The American (Washington, DC):
From the editor.(financial crises)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Dear Reader: The turmoil that has forever changed American financial markets has triggered an avalanche of Monday morning quarterbacking about what went wrong and why. But as Thomas Healey and Matthew Scogin show us in their article on page 28, many of the problems with which we ...
Healthy choice: allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines would help expand coverage.(THE AMERICAN SCENE)
Nov 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We went to press before Election Day, so we don't know whether to congratulate President-elect McCain or President-elect Obama. But we do know that the next administration, Republican or Democratic, will seek to reduce the number of Americans without ...
The global middle gets bigger: despite all the gloomy economic news, the world's middle class is expanding rapidly and global inequality is falling.(THE AMERICAN SCENE)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Amid severe financial turmoil and fears of a global recession, it is easy to lose sight of the more encouraging international economic trends, such as a rapidly expanding middle class and falling inequality. As a Goldman Sachs study points out, "we are in the middle of an unprecedented ...
Closing the happiness gap: are Americans happier today than they were in the 1970s and 1980s?(THE AMERICAN SCENE)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Since the early 1970s, the General Social Survey has offered an annual update on America's gross national happiness. In a new paper, Wharton economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers note some interesting trends. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "We find that, on average, ...
Jumping on the 'change' bandwagon: slashing corporate taxes is one type of change that has proved remarkably popular across the world. When will the United States start catching up?(THE AMERICAN SCENE)
Nov 01, 2008 ... A few months ago, we noted that countries around the world were slashing corporate income taxes at a furious pace. Since then, the turmoil on Wall Street has worsened--which makes the case for cutting U.S. business taxes even stronger. In its latest "Corporate and Indirect Tax ...