Word: digging
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...deficit, Obama limits his ability to react to future crises. Obama’s economic policy, especially the stimulus package passed, shows a belief in the principles of Keynesian economics. Maynard Keynes himself once suggested that, to battle the Great Depression, we bury money underground and hire workers to dig it out. Hopefully, Obama’s policies to rejuvenate the economy are more useful than this, but his message should be closer to Keynes’s than to Hoover’s. Malcolm-Wiley T. Floyd ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Weld Hall...
...Consider a thought experiment proposed by Greg Mankiw. The government could send each person in the country a check with which he could pay his neighbor to dig holes in his backyard. Unemployment would fall, but so would welfare. Consumers could buy more useful goods if government allowed them to keep their money. Unfortunately, Japan casts such a long shadow that Obama and his advisers think the economy will tank by the time consumers spend or businesses reinvest...
...seconds: Noruwa Agho is at the line for two, with the chance to take the lead. He misses the first, drains the second. The Crimson need to dig deep and find its offense. HARVARD 57, COLUMBIA...
...former Pennsylvania resident got his first taste of Boston politics while working with the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) in 2002, helping restore a parcel of land to Chinatown that had been claimed by the city and bulldozed 40 years earlier to pave a highway for the Big Dig. Yoon said that the scale of the campaign that ACDC mounted to reclaim the land led him to realize a fight for social change needed political backing in order to be truly efficacious. Boston’s Chinatown was founded in 1890, and it remains the only historically Asian neighborhood...
Save the newspaper, save the world. First, though, get in one good dig against what is arguably the last truly national newspaper. Almost anyone with a pulse who doesn't DVR everything has been bombarded by television ads from the New York Times. The spot implores people to "Start their weekend early!" with a subscription to one of the weekend newspaper packages. (Just so you know, there's the Weekend and then there's the Weekender.) Not a bad marketing move. Who doesn't want a longer weekend? Since the 2006 debut of the first commercial (there...