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Allan Powell: Are corporations really like a person?
What kind of person do we have? This question is raised when someone is asking another person to seriously judge the conduct of an acquaintance who has stepped over the line of propriety or failed to carry out a duty. The delinquent is assumed to...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Syracuse University, The Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve, HJ Heinz Company
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Letters to the Editor - Dec. 31
Christmas season a community effort in Chambersburg To the editor: One of my favorite Christmas thrills is coming around the bend on Philadelphia Avenue and seeing the length of Main Street blanketed with snow and ablaze with lights. To me, downtown...Tags: Barack Obama, Holidays, The Washington Post, Elections, Christmas
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Allan Powell: Ayn Rand's dream is a nightmare
The “Age of Greed” authored by Jeff Madrick, an economic columnist for The New York Times, might be considered by some as just another treatise on our latest economic collapse. This would not be a fair assessment of this fine book because it...Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Philosophy, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Federal Reserve, Mark Twain
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Allan Powell: Mindless statements can be innocent - or not
We are all aware of the human capacity to make verbal or written blunders. Some are merely humorous, while others have serious consequences. There have only been snickers at Calvin Coolidge’s statement that, “The unemployed are out of work.&...Tags: Elections, Philosophy, Politics, Todd Akin, Agriculture
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Allan Powell: 'Boomerang' a story of self delusion
Little is more depressing than reporting about how four countries populated with bright, energetic people became victims of their own short-sighted and self interested behavior. In his very well-written book, “Boomerang,” Michael Lewis gives a...Tags: Financial Markets, Foods and Beverages, Greece, Mutual Funds, Iceland
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Tom Firey: The loss of a friend you didn't know
Americans lost one of their few true friends in Washington this fall when economist William Niskanen shuffled off this mortal coil at age 78. You probably don’t recognize his name, and that’s unfortunate; he worked hard to get Washington to...Tags: George W. Bush, Human Interest, Walter Mondale, Bill Clinton, The Pentagon
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