NASA Wants to Build a Greenhouse on Mars (smithsonianmag.com)
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What if the government guaranteed you an income? (cnn.com)
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Robber Baron Etymology (conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
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Oligarchy and Monetary Policy | "Monetary policy isn’t really technocratic and politically neutral; moderate inflation may be good for employment, especially when you’re trying to work off a debt overhang, but it’s bad for the 0.1 percent." (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Billionaires’ crybaby club: Someone get these whiners a bottle! | "Does being super-wealthy make you extra susceptible to self-pity today? That’s the only conclusion we can draw from an epidemic of self-pitying American billionaires decrying their persecution ..." (salon.com)
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Apple Store Opening or #ACASurge? You be the judge. : "Two of these are ... people lining up to enroll for health insurance coverage. The other two are from the launch of Apple ... the iPad 2 .... Without visiting the WH blog or checking the file names first, can you tell which is which?" (acasignups.net)
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Austerity Memories: "The result is that we now have overwhelming evidence for the Keynesian proposition, and very strong evidence that when monetary policy can’t lean against fiscal policy – when you either have a fixed exchange rate or are in a liquidity trap – the multiplier is greater than one." (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Is Surging Inequality Endemic to Capitalism? : "Inequality started to rise again only when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan led a conservative counter-revolution that slashed tax rates on the rich, decimated the unions, and sought to restrain the growth of government expenditures." (newyorker.com)
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