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BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Robert J. Barro	Mysteries Of The Gaping Current-Account Gap The budget deficit isn't to blame, but spending discipline won't hurt.
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Reason June 2003 Jesse Walker	Trading Places In matters economic, Democrats are supposed to be the party of big government, Republicans the faction of fiscal and regulatory restraint. But when it comes to the executive branch, the sides seem to have reversed.
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Glenn Hubbard	The Social Security And Medicare Morass Entitlement reform in the U.S. -- and encouraging more private saving -- are essential.
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National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Anthony Downs	A Recipe Sure to End the Real Estate Boom Slower growth, higher interest rates, and higher taxes are not a recipe for prosperity. So, real estate will be part of the broader economic suffering required by the adjustments our economy must make.
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CFO September 1, 2004 Ronald Fink	It's the Deficit,... Neither Bush nor Kerry would close the federal budget gap. But that's where the policy resemblance ends. While 86 percent of CFOs are concerned about the size of the deficit, so far neither Bush nor Kerry has demonstrated much real interest in it.
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BusinessWeek September 2, 2010 Caroline Baum	Commentary: The Good Old Bad Days It's easy to be nostalgic for the 1990-91 recession that gave way to the Clinton boom. What will it take to ignite that kind of growth today?
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