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What Do We Mean by "Unions"?
(www.prospect.org)
Sebastian Mallaby takes advantage of the woes of the Detroit Three to take a shot at unions, saying "given the object lesson from the collapse of the Big Three carmakers, government should think... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Bailout Ballpark
(www.truthdig.com)
The New York Mets have announced that their new stadium will still be called Citi Field. According to news reports, Citigroup will pay the Mets a trifling $400 million over...
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Forget GM's Plan -- Where's The Government's Plan? (www.thenation.com)
When Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi sent the Detroit automakers away and told them to come up with a plan, it made me want to put my head through a wall. Not because the automakers didn't need one...
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Forget About TARP
(www.talkingpointsmemo.com)
The $700 billion bailout package passed by Congress is small potatoes compared to the $7.4 trillion that the Fed has pledged to throw at the credit crisis, Bloomberg reports:...
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
President Obama and the New Liberalism
(www.chelseagreen.com)
Barack Obama gained immense popularity and won the Democratic Party’s nomination by running as a post-partisan candidate—he understood Americans’ desire to move beyond the bitter divisiveness of... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
What We Need Out of a Second Stimulus Package
(www.prospect.org)
Central bankers usually don’t like to admit that their economies are in recession. But Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did just that earlier this week in testimony before Congress. He had... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
The Case for Plain Vanilla
(www.prospect.org)
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two Ways. Gradually, and then suddenly." --Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises I recently debated an economist from...
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
McCain warns against "erratic" politicians
(www.salon.com)
"Investors are always responsible for their investment decisions, but the hard earned savings of Americans should not be penalized by the...
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The federal government should go on a spending spree
(www.salon.com)
When the last presidential debate concluded — in what already seems like a different era — many observers complained that neither Barack Obama nor John McCain displayed the gravity and substance... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
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