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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Wall Street Journal: Steve Malanga: How Harrisburg Borrowed Itself Into Bankruptcy


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October 29, 2011 -- 5:00 a.m. EDT


See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal.



STEVEN MALANGA
Steve Malanga: How Harrisburg Borrowed Itself Into Bankruptcy


Can the capital of Pennsylvania stiff creditors when a credible payment plan is available?



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MARY KISSEL 
Barry Silbert: So Who Needs Wall Street?

Barry Silbert of SecondMarket is innovating around America's broken public capital markets.



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STEVEN E. LANDSBURG 
Steven E. Landsburg: How the Death Tax Hurts the Poor

It encourages the rich to pick extra fruit, leaving the trees a little barer for the rest of us.

REVIEW &  OUTLOOK


The Other Jobs Crisis
The immigration crackdown has created labor shortages.

 
Asmaa Sakharov?

Europe rewards the wrong Arab revolutionary.

 
Less Popular All the Time

'ObamaCare' has become the great unmentionable.


TODAY'S COLUMNIST
PEGGY NOONAN
Noonan: The Divider vs. the Thinker

While Obama readies an ugly campaign, Paul Ryan gives a serious account of what ails America.

 

JAMES TARANTO
Best of the Web Today: Crowd Displeaser

Three years later, will Obama's victory site become an Obamaville?

COMMENTARY


HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.
Jenkins: Great, Good and Guilty?

Will Rajaratnam now testify against Rajat Gupta in return for a shorter sentence?



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Notable & Quotable
Actor Michael Caine on his brief youthful flirtation with communism.



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Notable & Quotable
Tim Carney on Obama's lobbyist supporters.



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Multiple Personality Deception
"Sybil Exposed" argues that the famous patient who inspired a 1970s panic was more the victim of her psychiatrist than of mental illness. Carol Tavris reviews.



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BRENDAN SIMMS
Birth of the Modern World

Niall's Ferguson's "Civilization" tells of how the West—and not, as the book's subtitle has it, "the rest"—came to be a source of economic dynamism and political stability.



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JACQUES BARZUN
The Years With Trilling

Jacques Barzun reviews "Why Trilling Matters" and recounts his own intellectual partnership with the literary critic.

See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal.

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