Archive for the ‘Financial Crisis’ Category
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The Budget
Posted on May 14, 2010
In 1921, the Congress first started thinking about doing a budget. It passed the Budget and Accounting Act legislation that first directed the President to submit a budget. It also...
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Greece: Beginning and Ends
Posted on May 11, 2010
A little more than 2300 years ago, Alexander the Great rampaged out of Greece into Asia Minor, and Greek civilization reached its largest sphere of influence. A few centuries later,...
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Rising to the Challenge?
Posted on April 30, 2010
In 1893, Chicago hosted the World’s Fair, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in America. Designed by Daniel Burnham, the man who said, “Make no little plans,...
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Careful What You Write
Posted on April 28, 2010
Martin Michael Lomasney, a Boston politician from the 19th Century, once said: “”Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink.”...
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Work Longer, Retire Later
Posted on April 24, 2010
My wife’s boss, George LeMieux, the junior Senator from Florida, gave me a startling statistic the other day. He said that he got it from Erskine Bowles, President Clinton’s former...
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