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A Stimulus by Any Other Name
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It's been the same story for months: Unemployment is increasing, even if the rate at which it rises has been slowing. While 9.8 percent of the labor force is actually unemployed, some 17 percent... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Winning With the Economy -- or Without It
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No future candidates for president and few of their advisers will read Lynn Vavreck's new book -- her statistical methods and academic style guarantee that -- but they will miss it at their own peril.... More
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The Housing Hangover
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The Making Home Affordable program, announced last February and begun in earnest in April, consists of two primary components: The first involves helping borrowers in danger of losing their home... More
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Forgotten Corners of the Economy
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Another dead day on the street corner and Gonzalo Mejia is wondering how he will get by. He's been finding work just one or two days a week lately. Worse yet, a contractor recently stiffed him out of... More
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The Myth of Too Big to Fail
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Amid last fall's financial chaos, executives from Wachovia, at the time the fourth-largest commercial bank in the country, had bad news for their regulators: They were broke. Federal officials... More
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Return of the Bern'
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This morning, President Obama will announce his intent to renominate Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke to another four-year term in his position. I've already made the case for why Bernanke... More
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Financial product safety
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As our nation's economic crisis spreads and trillions of dollars are disbursed to keep the banks afloat, it's easy to forget that the catastrophe began with the peddling of a toxic retail-credit... More
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Obama's second biggest test: reforming Wall Street
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Citigroup -- the giant Wall Street bank still on life-support courtesy of $45 billion from American taxpayers -- wants to pay its 25 top executives an average of $10 million each this year, and award... More
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What to do with Ben Bernanke?
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Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's term expires early next year, and there's been much debate over whether President Obama should keep the head of the U.S. central bank around for another five years or replace... More
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New Abuses in Old Forms
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Big private-equity companies, which are largely unregulated, are hungry to take over failed banks.
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