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Immigration by the numbers

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After many false starts, a convergence of public sentiment and political will has sped the country to the brink of comprehensive immigration reform. In purely economic terms, it's a no-brainer — one of those rare instances where a moral imperative neatly aligns with our national self-interest.  
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  May 16, 2013

Trampled by A Bull Market

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The tailwinds behind the rally are largely illusory. Wall Street owes its bullish run to systematically pillaging our retirement funds.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  March 20, 2013

Bottom feeders

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Last month, federal regulators pulled the plug on a wide-ranging review of wrongful foreclosures by 10 mortgage lenders at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  February 20, 2013

Card-carrying Congress

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This year is just barely out of the crate, and already it's shaping up to be depressingly like last year.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  January 23, 2013

The Great Debt Deception

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As the country hurtles, Thelma and Louise -style, toward the fiscal cliff, there's been a steady drumbeat of calls for the two parties to join hands in the name of "shared sacrifice."
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  December 26, 2012

Cause for jubilation?

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Occupy Wall Street seems to have become a movement equally well-known for what it hasn't accomplished (much of anything, going by the establishment's churlish appraisal) as for what it has. But that may be about to change.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  November 28, 2012

Cliffhanger

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Amid the white noise of the election, sometimes the most pressing — but least headline-grabbing — issues fade into the hubbub. One such issue: the "fiscal cliff," the standoff over which says as much about the poisonous state of politics as it does about the US's ongoing economic frailty.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  October 31, 2012

You, me, + QE3

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After two previous rounds of qualitative easing, the floodgates have opened for yet another.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  October 03, 2012

Rewarding inefficiency

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As Obama barnstorms swing-state college campuses, he's making affordability of higher education the centerpiece of efforts to cast himself as wonkish hipster against Mitt Romney's rich, out-of-touch white guy.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  September 05, 2012

A lament for Libor

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Ladies and gentlemen, London's burning. Not with the flames of the Olympic torch or the torments of a hellish heat wave.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  August 08, 2012

Billions gone

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Full disclosure: I'm pretty dumb. I never made it past Algebra II.
By: MARC MEWSHAW  |  July 11, 2012
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