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After Downgrade, Americans Must Drive Tea Party From Power

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 10.08.2011

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Fernando Espuelas

The world's most powerful country was brought to the edge of financial chaos by Mrs. Bachmann and her Tea Party cohorts. Americans should never forget the damage that they have caused the whole nation.

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1937, 2011: Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Stimulus Wanes, Unemployment Increases

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Direct Hiring, Koch, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Pragmatism, Government Spending, Josef Stalin, Soviet Union, 1937, 2011, Stimulus, Scientific Economic Data, Ideology, Fdr, Politics News
Paul Abrams

One of the reasons the U.S. economy did so well in the last half of the 20th century is that we ignored ideology in favor of pragmatism. That is no longer true. Ideology has again become fashionable. And, we are paying for it, dearly.

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Riding White Water Economics Without Paddles and Rudder

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.20.2011

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Steve Clemons

What would it take for Pleasantville to become modern-day Greece -- where people are losing all that they have built and the social stress is undermining the solvency of the state?

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Ryan Grim

1937 Haunts Democrats During Spending Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Depression, Smoot-Hawley, Deficit Spending, 1937, Recession, Politics News

When President Obama ventured to Capitol Hill to meet with House Republicans shortly after Inauguration, he was met by a barrage of questions about th...

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