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President Obama: Shareholders, Workers — Let Everyone Vote

Zelinsky responds to President Obama’s recent endorsement of the Employee Free Choice Act which would eliminate the legal requirement of a secret ballot vote before workers unionize. Zelinsky argues that Democrats and Republicans alike should simultaneously affirm Americans’ right as shareholders to vote on matters of corporate policy including managerial compensation and Americans’ right as workers to vote whether to belong to a union. At the most basic level, the secret ballot is the American way.

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Abolish the Minimum Required Distribution Rules

In this article, Professor Zelinsky discusses the controversy surrounding the effects of the minimum required distribution (MRD) rules after the Crash of 2008. He concludes that the MRD rules, suspended by President Bush and Congress for 2009, should be abolished permanently.

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Khurais, Saudi Arabia

Khurais: The largest exporter of oil with over 20 percent of the world’s reserves, Saudi Arabia occupies roughly three quarters of the peninsula of arid land between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. As of 2007, this desert kingdom was producing approximately 11 million barrels of petroleum daily.

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