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The Invisible Hand Is Invisible Because It Isn t There

Elena Callahan, New Deal 2.0: ''[Economist Joseph] Stiglitz says that 'most Americans don t realize that we are no longer the country of opportunity that we think of ourselves, that America today has less equality of opportunity than any of the other advanced industrial countries ... if you are going to be judging how well an economy is doing, clearly I think the key metric that one wants to focus on is what is happening to the living standards of most citizens.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8404-the-invisible-hand-is-invisible-because-it-isnt-there



The ''Suicidal State'' and the War on Youth

Henry A Giroux, Truthout: ''The United States is one of the few countries in the world that puts children in supermax prisons, tries them as adults, incarcerates them for exceptionally long periods of time, defines them as super predators, pepper sprays them for engaging in peaceful protests and in an echo of the discourse of the war on terror describes them as 'teenage time bombs.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8421-the-suicidal-state-and-the-war-on-youth



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=living+standard
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=incarcerat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=pepper+spray
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stiglitz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Elena+Callahan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Henry+A.+Giroux
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