Ownership Society versus New Deal
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Bush's push to reform Social Security and other programs frames a deeper clash between individualism and safety net.
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President Bush will confront formidable hurdles in Congress as he pursues an overhaul of Social Security, the New Deal program known as the untouchable, third rail of politics. Add soaring budget deficits to the debate, and his effort becomes even more difficult.
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To some stock-market watchers, Wharton finance professor Jeremy J. Siegel was godfather to the '90s boom. His 1994 best seller, ``Stocks for the Long Run," persuasively argued that stocks offer far better returns than bonds or cash -- so long as investors stay the course during the downturns.
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Comment is free: Conor Gearty: If the left rejects every challenge to individual freedom, it will miss its chance to regain the influence lost under Blair.
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The problem isn't just silos and walled gardens &#151; our names for choiceless dependency on one company's goods and services. The problem is the defaulted belief system that gives us silos and walled gardens in the first place.  In that system suppliers believe that the best customers and users are captive ones. Customers and users believe that a free market naturally restricts choices to silos. It's a value sytem in which VCs like to ask &quot;What's your lock-in?&quot;. Even in 2007, long after the Net has become established as an everyday necessity, we still take for granted the assumption that living in a &quot;free market&quot; is to choose among jail cells. May the best prison win.
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A chicken in every pot. More open space and more affordable housing. The benefits of free trade without outsourcing. More manna from Washington, to be financed by that other guy behind the tree.
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USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but donÂ´t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.
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As lenders tighten their standards more Americans chose to rent, not own. That's good news for landlords.
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President Bush is poised to pursue an aggressive &quot;ownership society&quot; agenda of Social Security privatization, new tax breaks for savings and investment and additional incentives
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Our business is the American Dream. That&#39;s the slogan of Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest backer of home mortgages. The institution was chartered in 1938 to expand home ownership, but its leadership today
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer  When the government's attempt to relax media ownership rules was defeated in court two years ago, some hailed it as a victory against putting too much power in the hands of too few media lords.
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The government struggles to adapt its old methods of social control to the challenge of maintaining authority over a society seeking greater freedoms.
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By JERRY KRONENBERG  Two new parties interested in potentially countering Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for The Wall Street Journal's parent have emerged.  Cambridge's Ownership Associates, which the union representing Journal parent Dow Jones & Co.
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Turmoil at Fannie Mae calls for a stronger, more exacting regulatory hand, but the zeal for reform should not eclipse the financial institution&#39;s singular mission: providing low- and moderate-income Americans with entree into home ownership.
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Bankers have a beef when it comes to competition. Actually, they have a few. This is not a new theme. Bankers have long complained about doing business with strings attached or baggage to carry against competitors unencumbered by the same laws, regulations, or taxes. Don't mention mortgage companies to them at a cocktail party, unless you already have a drink ...
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The Economist is currently reporting the results of a survey of professional economists. When asked the majority seemed to feel that the economy was safer in Kerry's hands than in Bush's. The Bush tax cuts seem to have gone down particularly poorly with this group.     On the more positive side for Bush, a significant number of the economists say they don't think the problems of the US economy are entirely his fault.
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WASHINGTON - Amid signs that the economy is cooling, President Bush is showcasing initiatives for a second term under the banner of an "ownership society" in hopes of bolstering his economic stewardship credentials.    His platform includes initiatives to help people buy homes, start businesses, hone job skills and set up tax-free retirement and health care accounts - plus a still unspecified tax-code overhaul...