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See how and why Washington is not functioning.
Bob Woodward's freshly reported, thirty-five-page Afterword to his national bestseller, The Price of Politics, provides a detailed, often verbatim account of what happened in the dramatic "fiscal cliff" face-off at the end of 2012 between President Obama and the Republicans.
Now it's happening again. In fall 2013, Washington faces a new round of budget and fiscal wars that could derail the American...
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In The War on Normal People, Yang imagines a different future--one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. At this vision's core is Universal Basic Income, the concept of providing all citizens with a guaranteed income-and one that is rapidly gaining popularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. Yang proposes that UBI is an essential step toward a new, more durable kind of economy, one he...
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Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers, small-business owners, and maybe even a U.S. senator. That was the American Dream-our country's central promise to its people, if you work hard and play by the rules,...
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Donald Trump promised the American people a transformative change in economic policy after eight years of stagnation under Obama. But he didn't adopt a conventional left or right economic agenda. His is a new economic populism that combines some conventional Republican ideas–tax cuts, deregulation, more power to the states–with more traditional Democratic issues such as trade protectionism and infrastructure spending. It also mixes in important...
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America's greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. But the inevitable end of big government does not mean the end of America. It only means the end of one phase of American life. America is poised to enter a new era of freedom and prosperity. The cultural roots of...
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The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while...
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2015
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Donald Trump outlines how a crippled America could be restored to greatness. The book explores Trump's view on key issues including the economy, big CEO salaries and taxes, healthcare, education, national security, and social issues. Of particular interest is his vision for complete immigration reform, beginning with securing the borders and putting American workers first.
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"The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom"--
Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership-- these are the issues driving America's current political debates. Konczal believes they are all linked by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives? His answer is a resounding "no". With chapters on the history...
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In his blockbuster new book, businessman and entrepreneur Donald J. Trump argues that America is in serious trouble, and that our days as a superpower are numbered. "Our nation has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. It's time to get tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States," says Trump. "We need to get serious about the debt, we need to get serious about oil,
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Connecting the Dots Productions
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�2012
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Documentary traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of media, academia, pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized...
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Regnery Publishing
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c2013
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xvi, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
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Washington D.C. political reporter W. James Antle shares the inside story of how Americans exchanged the liberating vision of Ronald Reagan for Obama's promise of an ever-expanding welfare state--Adapted from Jacket.
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W.W. Norton & Co
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[2013]
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First Norton paperback ed.
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xxiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Krugman pursues the questions of how bad the "Great Recession" really is, how we got stuck in what can now be called a depression and, above all, how we can free ourselves.
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Simon & Schuster
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2016.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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vii, 455 pages ; 24 cm
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"A spirited examination of why what's good for American business elites and what's good for Americans have become misaligned"--Front jacket flap.
In the past, government and business were as much partners as rivals, resulting in broad-based growth and healthy social development. But advocates of anti-government market fundamentalism are intent on scrapping the instrument of nearly a century of unprecedented economic and social progress. Hacker and...
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PublicAffairs
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[2017]
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First edition.
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xxii, 232 pages ; 25 cm
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"The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick--hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The World Is Curved--argues that the experts are wrong. In recent decades, a Corporate Capitalism of top down mismanagement and backroom deal-making has smothered...
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Disruption Books
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[2020]
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First edition.
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"The unemployment rate has neared record lows and the stock market neared record highs in 2019. Yet the gap between low- and moderate-income Americans and their wealthier counterparts is greater than ever. In 2019, founder and CEO of Promontory FinancialGroup Gene Ludwig gathered a bipartisan group of the nation's foremost economic thinkers - academics and politicians, CEOs and former presidential advisors - to break with convention and candidly discuss...
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Macmillan Audio
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[2018]
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Unabridged.
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7 audio discs (8.5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two leading conservative economists present a defense of Trump's populist approaches to trade, taxes, employment, and infrastructure, offering insight into what further steps they recommend to return jobs to the American heartland.
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