Thursday Jolt: Amazon gets praise. Arena, not so much.
The day's winners and losers.
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The day's winners and losers.
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There's only one good reason to consider a new NBA basketball-NHL hockey arena in Seattle. It's the passion, stupid.
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The hedge fund manager who wants to bring the NBA and NHL to Seattle could have a real winner. We take a look at the possible millions.
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City partners, beware! Such pro-sports deals are full of arcane opportunities for making money, including the art of hedging income.
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In Seattle and nationally, our political discourse is frustrating and circular, wrapping us in irrelevant talking points. How about discussing the ways we make a better future?
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Holland's government falls and France sends the president into a runoff. Will new voices emerge? Welcome back to the Euro Crisis.
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Is public transit all about getting there quickly and conveniently, or about having fun and looking cool? The new First Hill Streetcar line will give us one, but we could have had both.
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How did We the People dwindle into We the Taxpayers? Author Marilynne Robinson is making waves nationally with her new book about American society and our democratic faith in the potential of every person.
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A remote rainy corner of the country emerged as one of the recognized centers of international commerce and innovation. More than blind luck was at play.
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With 10,000 baby boomers a day turning 65, that large cohort will have an impact on unemployment rates this fall, when it could matter in the election race, and for years to come. Update: New employment figures show little gain in overall jobs.
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Trade opportunities beckon for Washington state businesses, but Congress must repeal a measure associated with one of this state's most beloved politicians.
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A forum at the Episcopal cathedral in Seattle will look at the role of cooperatives in building a better future.
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Peter Orser of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate sees the local market near bottom and a steady but very slow return to stronger prices. Banks and developers are finding new ways to cope.
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After five years of good food on direct flights to Paris, Air France bids adieu to Seattle. Delta will take over the nonstop route.
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The City of Seattle and the UW join to provide a voice for the unemployed - a force 23 million strong nationally - at "Unemployed Nation" hearings next week.
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
The reckless betting of billions in a bank that has already received taxpayers' help is a good reminder of why we need the kind of strong financial regulation that Mitt Romney opposes and Barack Obama might not give us, either.
The famed economist writes: "Postponing the exit until after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the same failed policies (recessionary austerity and structural reforms) will not restore growth and competitiveness."
Maureen Dowd writes: "The shining industry agitator against some of the tougher regulations on banks has suddenly become the shining example of why still tougher regulations may be needed."
The Justice Department has launched a criminal probe into JPMorgan's more than $2 billion in losses.
Brad Plumer writes, "the losses could have broader implications for the financial industry. The bank's head, Jamie Dimon, was Wall Street's most prominent chief executive and one of the most effective opponents against strict financial reforms in Washington. Now his credibility is at stake."
Jamie Dimon, a Wall Street darling who took hot issue with the idea of increased bank regulation, has now seen his bank lose $2 billion and counting in just the kind of risky move that stronger controls could prevent.
Brooks writes, "The country is divided when different people take different sides in a debate. The country is really divided when different people are having entirely different debates. That’s what’s happening on economic policy."
Krugman writes, "What’s wrong with the prescription of spending cuts as the remedy for Europe’s ills? One answer is that the confidence fairy doesn’t exist — that is, claims that slashing government spending would somehow encourage consumers and businesses to spend more have been overwhelmingly refuted by the experience of the past two years."
King writes, "What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny."