The Washington Post Last year I woke up to discover that I’m now working part-time for a German company named Bartelsmann AG. You see, when I wasn’t looking, Bartelsmann scooped up Random House, which has published several of my books and still occasionally sends me exceedingly small royalty checks. Bartelsmann is now the largest publisher […]
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich, a co-founder of The American Prospect, is a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, one of the books featured in the Prospect’s High School Essay Contest.
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Why You’re Spending More Time in Airports
Broadcast June 8, 2001 Have you ever got to an airport to discover your flight’s been delayed an hour or two, or more? Or its been cancelled altogether? Or after your plane leaves the gate, you spend the next hour on the runway waiting for it to take off? And as a result, you miss […]
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Don’t Democrats Believe in Democracy?
The Wall Street Journal If I had my way there would be laws restricting cigarettes and handguns. But Congress won’t even pass halfway measures. Cigarette companies have admitted they produce death sticks, yet Congress won’t lift a finger to stub them out. Teenage boys continue to shoot up high schools, yet Congress won’t pass stricter […]
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A Shareholder, and a Citizen
The New York Times Soon, possibly tonight, a federal judge will rule on the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Microsoft. But whatever the decision, it’s only the first round in this and related litigation. That’s why I’ve been spending my money lobbying Congress to cut the budget of the Justice Department’s antitrust division. I’ve also […]
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No Easy Answers To Easy Credit Fallout
USA Today This week I got three letters from credit companies, all wanting me to sign up. One of them congratulated me on having been “selected” for a credit line of up to $5,000. Another commended me for being one of its most “valued” patrons and offered me a “low introductory” interest rate plus a […]
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Microsoft Case – The Transformation Of Government From Regulator Of TheOld Economy To Definer Of The New
The Washington Post At first glance, the Microsoft breakup order last week looks like a throwback to an earlier era. At a time when big telecommunications, finance, entertainment and other new-economy industries are consolidating into a handful of post-industrial global giants–and when government is deregulating and privatizing almost everything in sight–here’s Washington imposing the heaviest […]
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The Coming Bush Recession
P resident of the United States Economy Alan Greenspan is frustrated. George W., the mere president-elect, won’t deal. Worse, Greenspan can’t punish W. for not dealing. He can’t even credibly threaten punishment, because punishment is just what W. wants. Don’t throw me into that briar patch, Br’er Greenspan! The last two presidents have been willing […]
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Gen. Greenspan’s Timid March
We’re not in a war economy yet. We’re in an economy that’s just plainsinking. What to do? Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has told Congress to”wait and see” what happens before enacting a stimulus package lest it createinflationary fantasies among traders of long-term bonds. In an extraordinary showof newly bipartisan gutlessness, our representatives in Washington […]
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We Are All Third Wayers Now
The Third Way doesn’t have to be market conservatism in centrist clothing.
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The New Power
It seemed appropriate to begin my series of modest screeds with a short pre- snake person analysis of where power is moving to in America. Here’s who’s losing it: Giant corporations and their CEOs. They’ve made money in the current expansion, but they’re losing clout. Vast industrial- age bureaucracies can’t move fast enough. All are […]
