Deflation debate as markets weigh future prices and policy
An editorial weighs signs of deflation versus inflation in the United States. It cites gold price declines, Greenspan warnings, and economists such as Jude Wanniski and Mark Wilson to classify deflation as good bad or ugly. It notes ongoing money creation, tech price drops, and Asian currency effects shaping prices.
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United States
America
Jude Wanniski
Reagan
Wanniski
Federal Reserve Board
Alan Greenspan
Mark Wilson
Heritage Foundation
Federal Reserve
Wilson
Fed
Clinton plans and the looming budget myth
Thomas Lowell argues that public budgets cannot sustain promised entitlements amid surpluses not yet realized. He criticizes Clinton’s Medicare extension as a pay-for-itself idea, questions federal cost efficiency versus private insurance, and warns of a coming Social Security and Medicare funding crisis driven by past political promises and pyramid-scheme accounting.
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Washington
Clinton
Bill Clinton
State of the Union
Congress
Sen
Phil Gramm
Santa Claus
Lowell
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Limits of tolerance tested by firing over gay rights ballot
Steve Whiting, after 20 years at Douglas Whiting Denham and Rogers in Portland, says he was fired for aiding backers of a repeal initiative targeting Maine's gay rights law. He notes religious and political pressure, while supporters and opponents wage a high-stakes fight with limited polling and funding.
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Steve Whiting
Portland, Maine
Douglas, Whiting, Denham and Rogers
Whiting
Maine
Christian Civic League of
Christian Coalition of Maine
James Fortin
Christian Civic League and
Christian Coalition
The
Freedom Riders
Martin Luther King Jr
Civic League
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