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Weekly Audit: Why the Current Stimulus Plan Isn't Enough
(open.salon.com)
The U.S. economy just keeps getting worse. Given the absolute pummeling the job market has taken over the past five months, we're going to need some much stronger medicine than policymakers are... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
AIG's Scandalous Payments
(www.jimhightower.com)
AIG has now entered the Hall Of Corporate Infamy. The global insurance behemoth gained entry the old-fashioned way: It earned it. Even as the company was pocketing $200 billion in taxpayer bailout... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
The Nobelists vs. Obama and Geithner
(www.truthdig.com)
The great mystery of the Obama administration’s economic agenda is whether its signature marriage of boldness and caution will prove to be a Goldilocks recipe that gets things just right, or a... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Cars, Banks and Confusion
(www.truthdig.com)
Through a series of logical decisions, the Obama administration has maneuvered itself into an illogical and uncomfortable place. The president is telling Detroit to shape up or die while at the same... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Bank Execs Good, Auto Execs Baaad (www.seeingtheforest.com)
Eisenhower brought auto execs into his cabinet. They knew autos and manufacturing - and invested in the interstate highway system that has paid off in its return to our economy. Obama brought in... More
Submitted 11 months ago by DaveJ | 1 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Stop Subsidizing Wall Street Economy NewsLadder
(tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner rolled out his new Wall Street bailout plan on Monday and the progressive verdict is already in: This bailout doesn't look much better than the last one. In fact,... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Bailout Blues: Why Bank Nationalization Makes Sense
(progressive.org)
In one of the many historic excerpts from the forthcoming 100th anniversary issue of The Progressive magazine, Socialist Norman Thomas scoffs at Republican accusations that FDR is a "socialist." No... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Bailout for Bankers? Indictments From Inmates
(www.thenation.com)
My economic advisers do not have PhDs; a number of them, however, do have GEDs.
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
SOME BANKERS YOU MIGHT LIKE
(www.jimhightower.com)
Hip, hip, hooray! Let’s hear it for bankers! No, not those bankers – not Citigroup, Bank of America, and the other greedheaded giants that’ve taken billions of dollars each from us taxpayers... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Finally, Some Bailout for Homeowners
(www.thenation.com)
More than four months after the federal government claimed it was moving to address a mortgage crisis that threatened to take away the homes of millions of American families, steps are being taken to... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
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