Review of "The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It." By Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. Princeton University Press. 279 pp. $24.95
Compromise, George.. Huffington Post 9 minutes ago
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 Tuesday follows a relatively slow day of data and earnings in the U.S., with announcements focused in the retail sector. Markets will be looking to Unemployment and consumer confidence readings in.. Business Insider 54 minutes ago
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Economic forecasters expect conditions to improve slowly this year but a bit faster next year. Unemployment should fall to 7.5 percent by then. Miami Herald 1 hour ago
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The following is a guest post by Malcolm Gissen, co-manager of The Encompass Fund. Politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as most Americans, want to see the U.S. become energy self-sufficient... Forbes.com 2 hours ago
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Videos for Unemployment  |  | The road to recovery is looking a bit brighter tonight. New unemployment numbers for Nevada show better days ahead. News 3's Mackenzie Warren is breaking it all down for us. Nevada's unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level in three years. Statewi Source: KSNV Las Vegas - 3 days ago |  |  | Alabama's April unemployment rate is now 7.2%, down from March's rate of 7.4%. Source: WPMI NBC 15 Mobile - 3 days ago |  |  | Laura Hart from the RI Department of Labor and Training joins Eyewitness News to discuss the latest unemployment numbers released in RI. Source: WNAC FOX 64 Providence - 3 days ago |
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Art Bailly of San Mateo, Calif., figured he had another couple months worth of Unemployment insurance. He was super upset to discover two weeks ago that his benefits would be stopping short.
"I.. Huffington Post 3 hours ago
|  THE financial press went ape this week over the highly anticipated IPO of one Facebook, the Harvard social network turned $100 billion phenomenon.
Facebook's soaring valuation has focused attention.. Business Insider 3 hours ago
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (better known as NATO) is in the news once again thanks to a NATO Summit meeting in Chicago over the weekend of May 19-20 and to large public demonstrations in.. Huffington Post 4 hours ago
| Like any Woody Allen fan, I've been waiting my entire adult life to re-enact the Marshall McLuhan scene from "Annie Hall."
Today, Mitt Romney and Jonathan Chait finally gave me my.. The New Republic 4 hours ago
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It was a weekend of fear and mourning in Italy.
Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna: at least six killed (ceramic workers and a 100-year-old), and big material damage in the.. Huffington Post 4 hours ago
| The standard Keynesian narrative that "Households and countries are not spending because they can’t borrow the funds to do so, and the best way to revive growth, the argument goes, is to find ways to.. Zero Hedge 5 hours ago
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