In the ongoing debate over Gay Marriage, the argument is usually based in battle between “morality” and “equality.” Let’s add some economics to the equation.
The NY Times has a story in today’s edition that examines the high cost gay couples face compared with straight couples based on day to day living From the story:
“Our...
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Tags: Economics, Equality, Gay Marriage, morality, NY Times, Prop 8
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Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Princeton professor and NY Times columnist gets to the bottom of of the Right Wing’s claim that we can’t afford to fight Global Warming.
From Krugman’s piece in the NY Times:
Some of them still claim that there’s no such thing as global warming, or at least that the evidence...
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Tags: Economists, Global Warming, Green, Nobel Prize, NY Times, Paul Krugman, Princeton
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Sunday’s New York Times features this terrific column by Nobel-prize winning economist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman who speculates on why Reaganism’s economic promise is a documented failure but still lives on in Conservative strongholds in Congress and State Legislatures.
From the column:
First of all, even before the current crisis Reaganomics had failed to deliver...
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Tags: George W. Bush, NY Times, OC Register, Paul Krugman, Reaagnism, Reaganism, Reaganomics, Red County
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The president of the United States wrote this stirring op ed in today’s New York Times. From the article:
“There are four main ways the reform we’re proposing will provide more stability and security to every American.
First, if you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of high-quality, affordable coverage for yourself and your...
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Tags: healthcare reform, NY Times, Obama
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Nobel prize winning economist, Princeton University professor and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman has a column in the New York Times that says while things are still pretty tough out there for the economy, the Obama aministration’s big government policies may have averted the nation (and the world) from falling into a financial abyss...
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Tags: big government, Economics, NY Times, Obama, OC Register, Paul Krugman, Republicans, Stimulus
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About 200+ marriage equality activists gathered in San Bernardino on Saturday for what was billed as a “LGBT Leadership Summit” to discuss how and when to repeal Proposition 8 which was passed by voters in 2008 removing the right to marry from same gender couples in California.
While there were a significant portion of those...
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Tags: Ballot Initiative, California Supreme Court, David Bohnett, Election 2010, Election 2012, LGBT Leadership Summit, Marriage Equality, NY Times, Prepare to Prevail, Proposition 8, Repeal Prop 8
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I slept in this morning as I fight off a head cold (always on a Holiday weekend) so I had a later start to my day; Paul Krugman’s column in today’s NY Times is must reading. Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner in economics and a Princeton professor, offers a far more credible analysis of...
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Tags: California, NY Times, OC Register, Paul Krugman, Reaganomics, Republicans, supply-side economics
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