A Fool's Enterprise
Author : Opal Bennefield Clark
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philanthropists
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Author : Opal Bennefield Clark
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philanthropists
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Author : Howard Green
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 149172515X
Republicans have proven adept at getting middle-class voters to vote against their own pocketbooks. George W. Bush and his advisors promised economic growth, jobs and an ownership society--but delivered a housing finance bubble, Wall Street profits fueled by fraud, a recession, budget deficits, low economic growth, massive job losses and upward transfers of middle-class wealth. In Fools and Knaves, author Howard Green explores both the short-term and long-term effects of Republican-controlled government on the nation. When the Republicans left town, they handed the tab for clean-up to taxpayers and then obstructed every effort to repair the economy that they broke. What's more, they now favor cuts to government programs for the poor, government shutdowns, and threats of credit default. The financial crisis of 2007 was no accident; it flowed from GOP policies that were intended to benefit the 1 percent as well as themselves. Republicans succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and today the wealthiest among us pocket virtually all the gains associated with the rebuilding of our economy. Meanwhile, the middle-class suffers home foreclosures, job losses, and reductions in real income. Fools and Knaves makes it clear that while appealing largely to social conservatives and older, white, blue-collar voters, Republicans make promises to the middle class but actually deliver results only to the wealthy. Everyone else--especially those who are younger, better educated, female, and from minority households--is now getting the message: Republicans have nothing to offer them.
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1891
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Libraries
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Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 1694 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1998-07
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ISBN : 0788173928
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Page : 972 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Finance
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Author : William Marsden
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307398250
From the National Business Book Award-winning author of Stupid to the Last Drop, a captivating polemic on the global failure to deal with climate change. Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have become despite mounting scientific evidence that immediate action is essential to curb the effects of climate change. International climate change summits are now widely monitored events, attended by state leaders and crowded with journalists; yet somehow they have never been less productive. Treaties and action plans are smothered by economic self-interest, diplomatic errors and every nation's hungry scramble for its share of the remaining atmospheric space. Marsden takes us from inside the bungled negotiations at Copenhagen to the melting glaciers and untapped oil reserves of the Arctic; he shows us the paralyzing effect oil and gas companies have on green legal initiatives in the United States, and therefore on any international climate change treaty; and, with wit and penetrating insight, he asks the toughest question--will we be able to change before it's too late?
Author : John C. Shaw
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Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Diana Johnstone
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 158367084X
A discussion of the political illusion created by the humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 that tests popular beliefs
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Paper industry
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