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Owning The Economy (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

Mark Blumenthal has a good write up on the recent small but clear downward trend in President Obama's approval ratings. The chief culprit: a recent spate of bad economic news. For better or worse, six... More

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

When Will The Recovery Begin? Never. | Robert Reich's Blog (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

The so-called "green shoots" of recovery are turning brown in the scorching summer sun. In fact, the whole debate about when and how a recovery will begin is wrongly framed. On one side are the... More

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

They've GOT To Be Kidding ... | TPM (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

From Bloomberg (thanks to TPM Reader PJ for the catch): Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation backed by leveraged loans into new securities with AAA... More

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Takes Your Breath Away (www.politicsdaily.com) TMC

Melinda Henneberger has a nice blow by blow run-down of the various, overlapping, often contradictory and mainly just painful explanations from WaPo executives about their abortive... More

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

House GOP Going For Broke | TPM (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

The George W. Bush-not-conservative-enough meme is finding traction in an internal GOP memo that blames "The Great Bush-Obama Economic Intervention" for making the financial crisis worse.

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Sounds Like A Deal Was Cut? (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

AP says GM CEO Rick Wagoner is stepping down immediately.

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Submitted 11 months ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

The Other View (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

I wanted to flag for everyone that Brad DeLong is not nearly so down on the new Geithner plan as some others are.

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Submitted 12 months ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

Where He Kept the Money (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

Could Chase be on the line (financially, not criminally) for some of Madoff's fraud?

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Submitted about 1 year ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

Just Gets Worse (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

The first reports said either $100 million or $170 million in bonus payments. But there was a lot of unclarity about what kind of bonuses they were and how many were going to the folks at AIG... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

Consequences (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

As I noted last night, there is a growing body of evidence that February's Stimulus Bill was too small and an increasing likelihood that a second Stimulus Bill will be needed -- perhaps sooner than we... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

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