The question that forms the title of this article has been posed by economists for decades.
Earlier this week, the Post pushed the debate over secret government surveillance programs into uncharted waters as it revealed a top-secret memo detailing thousands of improprieties and outright unlawful acts carried out by the NSA’s army of digital spies.
The past month and a half has seen the rising tide of civil war growing within Egypt, following the ouster of democratically elected Islamist Mohammed Morsi.
This revelation is yet another step in the Obama administration’s walk-back from Obamacare, which it knows all too well will prove to be nothing but a death-knell for small businesses and any recovery in the job market.
Greece could be headed for yet another multi-billion dollar bailout, according to secret documents uncovered by Der Spiegel, a German-language newspaper. According to Reuters, which reported on the findings this weekend, a secret panel within the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, concluded that a new bailout for Greece is highly likely, and could be unveiled sometime early next year.
Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs changed the cyber community nearly overnight, but not for the better in some cases. According to the Washington Post, an encrypted email website known as Lavabit – which Snowden is known to have used in the past – has suspended its operations pending federal litigation.
Eminent domain is a controversial administrative tactic, and the policy has a colored history associated with oppressive governments. Because it involves seizing private property – in this case, a home loan liability – for public use, there is often pushback from all affected parties.
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President Barack Obama took the housing recovery into uncharted waters today by endorsing a bipartisan Senate blueprint for winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage securers that formed the nucleus of the 2007-2009 financial panic.
President Barack Obama has made a lot of promises since first taking office in 2008, from proposing steps to help improve the environment to attempts at strengthening the middle class through government intervention in the housing markets.