37, 38. A throwback to the robber barons of a century earlier, they sold the remade system to the people as a nostalgic return to traditional American values. 281 In 2010 the Obamacare provision most Stuart Butler, Assuring Affordable Healthcare for All Americans (Washington D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1989). 224 “the sorest winners ever recorded” Jack Shafer, “Robert L. Bartley (1937-2003),” Slate, December 12, 2003. 144 By the way after the 1980s “graph ‘ethical drugs, ethical pharmaceuticals’,” Google Books Ngram Viewer. 288 They received two-thirds of the benefits Howard Gleckman, “TaxVox: Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms,” May 29, 2019. 364 Before the oil age starting “Homesteading by the Numbers,” National Park Service. 208 When I graduated high school “History of Undergraduate Per Credit Hour Tuition and Average Academic Year Cost with Fees,” Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 169 In early 1998 I wrote Kurt Andersen, “The Digital Bubble,” The New Yorker, January 12, 1998. 51 “acknowledging the industry’s responsibility for polluting” Lily Rothman, “This Book Has Kept American Drivers Safe for 50 Years,” Time, November 30, 2015. --Dave Levinthal, “Tobacco Giant Funded Conservative Nonprofits,” The Center for Public Integrity, May 30, 2013. 298 Another recent paper by three finance Grullon, et al, “US Industries Becoming More Concentrated.”. 120 Employees’ share of the national Stiglitz, “Inequality.”. 165 Then I noticed that each David Dayen, “Will the Tax Act Set Back Private Equity?”The American Prospect, July 2, 2018. Faltering innovation confronts the six headwinds.”, “World Growth from the Antiquity (growth rate per period),”, “A History of the Standard of Living in the United States,”, “History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry,”, “It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs,”, “Cotton in a Global Economy: Mississippi (1800-1860),”, “The Business of America: Eli Whitney’s Other Talent,”. --“Number of active PE firms up 143% since 2000: A global breakdown,” PitchBook, June 10, 2015.
265 From the first census in 1790 “QuickFacts: United States,” U.S. Census Bureau, July 1, 2019. 205 “back on to workers” Jacob S. Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. --Dana Sarnak, David Squires, and Shawn Bishop, “Paying for Prescription Drugs Around the World: Why Is the U.S. an Outlier?” The Commonwealth Fund, October 5, 2017. -- Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (New York: Doubleday, 2016), pp. 139 The Justice Department issued “1982 Merger Guidelines,” The United States Department of Justice Archives. 371 “it’s going to disappear one day” Christian Paz, “All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus,” The Atlantic, May 27, 2020.
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