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Huge mismatch between profits of $20 billion and investment of $400 billion for AI in 2025 and $1.5 trillion in spending to 2028 that is crowding out investments in repairing America's crumbling infrastructure, manufacturing, renewable energy, housing, health, education
11/16/2025
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The shutdown is over, but the nation’s aviation problems are not.
The Washington Post 11/16/2025
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yale Insights 11/15/2025
Simple maths says the AI investment boom ends badly
Firstlinks 11/15/2025
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press 11/15/2025
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
The Wall Street Journal 11/12/2025
Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees
The Wall Street Journal 11/14/2025
Analysis of the 2010 US midterm election
11/21/2010
The divide between those without a college degree and the highly educated, between the densely populated areas and the less densely populated areas, the two coasts and the midwest.
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Political divide between coasts and Midwest deepening, midterm election analysis shows
Washington Post 11/21/2010
A Part-Time, Low-Wage Epidemic
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2012
Google's U.S. federal tax liability of 18%. GE's low tax rate.
10/28/2010
The US tax rate for corporations at 35%, but the $1.5 billion federal tax liability of Google comes to an effective 18% tax rate. GE's consolidated tax rate of 11.6% from 2005 to 2009. This is also true of other large American companies, raising questions of fairness at a time of budget cuts in education, Medicaid and Medicare. Many U.S. companies, such as Apple, also use offshore tax havens to protect profits from taxes.
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Apple Avoided Taxes on Overseas Billions, Senate Panel Finds
Wall Street Journal 05/21/2013
Appleâs Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds
New York Times 05/20/2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Lawmakers Square Off Over Taxes
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
Ireland Defends Tax Laws to Critics at Home and Abroad
New York Times 05/21/2013
The Corrosive Effect of Apple’s Tax Avoidance
New York Times 05/23/2013
U.S. public sentiment towards outsourcing manufacturing and trade issues.
10/02/2010
Big changes in public opinion as the U.S. economy struggles in 2010 to create enough jobs. Compared to ten years ago in 1999, highly educated Americans now have unfavorable opinions on how free trade is impacting the U.S. in the jobs area.
Grouped Articles
China's Export Pain May Be Mexico's Gain
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2012
Why Manufacturing Still Counts in the U.S. Economy
Wall Street Journal 01/14/2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership Puts Harvard Law School Rivals on Opposite Sides, Again
New York Times 04/27/2015
Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.
New York Times 06/03/2015
After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade
New York Times 03/09/2016
Free Trade Loses Political Favor
Wall Street Journal 03/10/2016
Consumer Reports continues to educate a new generation of consumers in the 21st century.
07/22/2010
With 7 millon subscribers Consumer Reports, published by nonprofit advocacy group Consumer's Union, and based in Yonkers, New York, continues to provide completely independent opinion on products to consumers. Lexus 460 and the Apple Iphone have come under scrutiny in recent months. A new generation of younger subscribers looks to Consumer Reports, as did a previous generation.
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BusinessWeek 07/22/2010
Asian Handset Makers May Find Room to Shine
Wall Street Journal 10/05/2011
Studies cited by Nicholas Carr show flood of information on Internet and the distraction reduce learning.
05/27/2010
Studies show Internet use can actually reduce learning and make people dumber, encourage shallow thinking. Nicholas Carr has written a book on this subject titled, "The Shallows." Carr has done some serious research on the subject and the book has received favorable reviews.
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For Yahoo, a Chase to the Bottom
Wall Street Journal 05/27/2010
Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
Wall Street Journal 06/05/2010
Wall Street Journal 06/04/2010
'The Shallows': Is the Net Fostering Stupidity?
BusinessWeek 06/03/2010
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
New York Times 11/21/2010
New York Times 12/29/2011
Britain's new 2010 Budget marks a big change from the past.
05/13/2010
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, put forward a budget with a 25% spending cut by 2015 in all departments except health and international aid. This marks a huge departure in years of spending by the Labor governments. The new Conservative-Liberal coalition government is determined to take austerity measures to reduce the national debt.
Grouped Articles
Britain's accidental revolution
Economist 05/13/2010
U-Turn in the U.K.: Big Spending Cuts
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2010
Britain Details Radical Spending Cuts, Citing Debt
New York Times 10/20/2010
U.K. Plans New Taxes on Banks, Multinationals
Wall Street Journal 12/04/2014
Tough Slog to Balancing U.K.’s Budget
Wall Street Journal 12/04/2014
Overheard: Digging for Answers on Coal
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2015
Medicare.
06/14/2009
Medicare, funding and government deficits. Quality of care, education and lifestyle choices.
Grouped Articles
Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
New York Times 06/14/2009
Doctors Chafe As Medicare Cuts Loom
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
Bullish Medicare Projection Doubted
Wall Street Journal 08/06/2010
Toward a Different Fiscal Future
Wall Street Journal 02/08/2010
Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2010
Medicare Plan to Link Cost to Performance Rankles Hospitals
New York Times 05/30/2011
U.S. educational system.
10/30/2008
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U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/2013
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
New York Times 01/18/2014
Arne Duncan: Better education starts with honesty about achievement gaps - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/24/2014
Obama Outlines Plan for Education Overhaul
New York Times 03/11/2009
China's difficult political-economic choices in the post 2010 period.
01/06/2008
The difficult choices in the new environment- transition to a new leadership, how to change the export model without serious disruptions, how to deal with western demands for balanced global growth, dealing with the inequality and corruption generated in the kind of growth China experienced (by the fiat of the State), opening up freedom of expression to curb corruption and to provide representation for hitherto blocked out voices, transition to freedom of expression and democratic processes without serious disruption to thegrowth needed for employment and improvements in the standard of living across all parts of society and regions, reducing or channelling to constructive ends prevailing nationalistic, anti-western or anti-Japanese sentiment. The new leadership of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang is expected to be more outward looking than than of Hu Jintao and Wen Biao and comes at atime when China needs to make some difficult choices about future direction.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2013
The Slowing of Two Economic Giants
New York Times 07/14/2013
Wall Street Journal 07/15/2013
How China Lost Its Mojo: One Town's Story
Wall Street Journal 09/16/2013
Chinaâs Economy, Back on Track
New York Times 10/04/2013
Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2013
Unemployment in Germany 2009-2013
01/04/2008
The role of "kurzarbeit" programs, work sharing, the changes from the Hartz reforms, and wage restraint in reducing German unemployment.
Grouped Articles
'Minijobs' Lift Employment But Mask German Weakness
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2013
The Next First (and Only) 100 Days
New York Times 12/10/2011
German elections pit Merkel, challenger over poverty problems - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/17/2013
German Minimum Wage Plan Gains Backing From Businesses
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2014
Germany Regains Jobs Lost in Recession
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2010
The Price of Saving Jobs in Germany
BusinessWeek 07/29/2010
Steve Jobs Tim Cook and shipping out of America' industrial base and with it America's leadership of the Free World
05/26/2025
America's industrial strength, it's industrial base, is one of the four pillars of America's leadership of the Free World. Without it the Free World will fall apart. The other pillars are it's education and it's health care. Underfunding of education with declining enrolment of men in college and lack of factory jobs comes with loss of the industrial base for taxes, taxes avoided by Apple and other companies. All these problems are becoming clear in 2025 as DJT calls for reindustrializing the Nation.
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Trump, Apple relationship devolves with threats
The Hill 05/26/25
Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
NYTimes.com 05/26/25
Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse
WSJ 05/24/25
UK Education spending after 2010
11/11/2010
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Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/13
Paying for higher education: The cap fits
Economist 11/11/10
New York Needs Its Best Teachers in the Classroom
Wall Street Journal 03/11/11
Education spending crisis in the U.S. state of New Jersey in 2010.
10/22/2010
Grouped Articles
Governor Christie's Ultimate Test
Wall Street Journal 10/22/10
Chris Christie: The conservative crush
Economist 01/08/11
Public Workers in Wisconsin Protest Plan to Cut Benefits
New York Times 02/16/11
In Wisconsin and Washington, budget battles reshape political landscape
Washington Post 02/19/11
Bill Gates - How teacher development could revolutionize our schools
Washington Post 02/28/11
Wisconsin Budget Would Slash School and Municipal Aid
New York Times 03/01/11
Education in Brazil.
09/04/2010
Brazil faces severe challenges in education and skill development.
Grouped Articles
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/13
As Demand for Education Rises in Brazil, For Profit Colleges Fill the Gap
New York Times 06/19/14
Educational Gaps Limit Brazil's Reach
New York Times 09/04/10
Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy
Economist 10/02/10
Education in Brazil: No longer bottom of the class
Economist 12/11/10
Wall Street Journal 06/27/11
The Internet and Education.
06/03/2010
The role of the Internet in learning.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/27/13
'The Shallows': Is the Net Fostering Stupidity?
BusinessWeek 06/03/10
Revolution Hits the Universities
New York Times 01/26/13
Davos Considers Learningâs Next Wave
New York Times 01/27/13
The approach to banking and financial regulation of the new Cameron coalition government in Britain.
05/13/2010
Both Liberals and Conservatives in the U.K. agree on a levy on the banks to raise 1 billion pounds. Liberal's Cable is the new Business Secretary and he favors shrinking the large banks and reducing systemic risk, and a separation of retail and investment banking activities. The Financial Services Authority will continue to operate and examine banks, the Bank of England will oversee systemic risk and regulation of banks.
Grouped Articles
British Treasury Targets Banks to Increase Tax Revenue
New York Times 12/04/14
David Cameron Leads a Call to Thwart Financial Corruption
New York Times 05/12/16
Economist 05/13/10
A Crisis of Faith in Mervyn King, Britain's Central Banker
New York Times 02/06/11
British banks: Vickers in a twist
Economist 01/29/11
British Bank Proposal Expected to Include Stiff Rules
New York Times 04/07/11
India's Caste based quotas in Education, Government and other spheres
05/01/2010
The controversial nature of these quotas 60 years after independence of India.
Grouped Articles
The Country That Stopped Reading
New York Times 03/05/13
Wall Street Journal 05/01/10
India Graduates Millions, but Too Few Are Fit to Hire
Wall Street Journal 04/05/11
Mexico’s failing schools spell defeat for ruling party - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/09/12
Fragility of social cohesion in the U.S. with unemployment concentrated in the lower middle and working classes.
03/11/2009
Figures from the Center of Labor Market Studies of Northeastern University in Boston showing unemployment of 9% in the $40,000 to $50,000 annual household income group and going up to 31% at the lowest income group. Higher inequality as differences in education between lower income and higher income Americans grows. The problem of the long term unemployed is a serious one.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/14/11
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/13
New York Times 06/22/13
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/11
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/13
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/13
Education in the U.S. in 2010-2015
10/30/2008
Grouped Articles
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/13
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/13
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/13
New York Times 01/18/14
Arne Duncan: Better education starts with honesty about achievement gaps - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/24/14
Obama Outlines Plan for Education Overhaul
New York Times 03/11/09
China wage increases and government policy to promote domestic consumption.
01/05/2008
Wage increases of 20% at Hon Hai and upto 100% at Honda factories in China from wages that were kept low for the export market, are now the trend in China. The government policy is shifting to encourage such wage increases to promote domestic consumption and reduce an overreliance on export markets for growth. This is happening just as trade tensions are increasing with the USA.
Grouped Articles
Beijing Signals a Shift on Economic Policy
New York Times 05/24/13
Honda's Long-Haul Dilemma in China
Wall Street Journal 06/24/10
Interview With Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada
Wall Street Journal 09/02/10
Yuan's Rise Hurts China's Exporters
Wall Street Journal 01/20/14
China Will Keep Growing. Just Ask the Soviets.
New York Times 10/24/14
Adidos and Hotwind? In China, Brands Evoke Foreign Names, Even if They’re Gibberish
New York Times 12/26/14
Shift to fuel efficient engines will reduce oil demand in China.
04/12/2006
The gradual phasing out of polluting and inefficient one cylinder engines called "inkfish" used by poorer people. About 36 million of these types of low tech engines are currently sold.
Grouped Articles
China Has Big Eyes, Little Stomach for Oil
Wall Street Journal 08/27/15
China's Thirst for Oil Could Come Up Short
Wall Street Journal 06/01/10
Wall Street Journal 07/18/10
Obama administration set to raise fuel efficiency standards, but by how much? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/13/11
As the Price of Gasoline Takes Off, Oil and Auto Firms Trade Barbs
Wall Street Journal 04/12/06
New Mileage Rules Debated by Carmakers and White House
New York Times 07/03/11
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