Tag: Washington
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success. The world’s happiest countries share surprising characteristics – a small gap between rich and poor; work-life balance; urban design favoring community over cars; high degrees of interpersonal trust; a strong social safety net, and the…
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Blinding Trust and the Elected Aristocracy
What can it mean for doing business in Washington, DC, that the “blind trusts” of elected officials favor the corporations that receive the most benefits from doing business with and receiving aid from the largest public purse in the world? The Center for Responsive Politics tells us that for the…
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Meet the Pacific Rim’s new environmental superpower – Quartz
Together, the west coast of the US and Canada boasts a population of 53 million and would form the world’s fifth-largest economy, a Pacific Rim center of technological innovation with a gross domestic product of $2.8 trillion… think of the climate change pact as another move to create transnational carbon…
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Corporate sell-outs exploit a secret new gimmick – Salon.com
With more and more operations of the executive and judiciary branches happening behind closed doors and out of public view, the legislative branch was bound to join Washington’s secrecy-fest at some point. That point apparently is now. As The Hill reports, the U.S. Senate’s “top tax writers have promised their…
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The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington | TIME.com
Interesting op/ed at Time.com from the Curious Capitalist. Corporate finance is global. Politics remains local. Situating ourselves within the dialectic betwixt economics & policy is very much an important affair in facing up to the Society of Control & its encoding of the Book of Life. Washington exists on a…
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