Obama Economics

Economists: Obama's Economic Policies Are 'Fair' Or 'Poor'

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN and DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 12.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama gets mediocre marks for his handling of the economy and Mitt Romney easily outpolls his Republican rivals in an A...

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An Imagined Speech, Yearned for by Many

Frank A. Weil | Posted 01.11.2012

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I would be willing to sacrifice a second term, if I believed that my successor could and would do the things necessary to get your bacon out of the fire.

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Obama, Democrats Plot Out Follow-Through On Jobs Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of Friday's dismal employment report, which reported no net change in the number of U.S. jobs, Top officials in the Democrat...

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David Axelrod Downplays Bad Jobs News, Says Austan Goolsbee To Play Big Reelection Role

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Lost in this week's announcement that Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, would be leaving the White Hous...

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Paul Volcker: Unemployment Has No Short-Term Solution

Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJNG (AP) -- A top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday he sees no short-term way to reduce high U.S. unemployment and expects sl...

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Obama Pick For Top Economic Post Hailed By Business For Pragmatism, Deal-Making

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gene Sperling, the Treasury official widely expected to take over as President Obama's chief economic adviser, is the sort of figure who has been arou...

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Robert Reich Predicts A 'Revolt Against Wealthy'

Bloomberg | James Pressley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bargain broke down when middle-class America buckled under global competition and labor-replacing technology. Reich blames what happened next on t...

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Obama Economic Team Weighing New Wave Of Tax Cuts, Infrastructure Spending: WSJ

Wall Street Journal | DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure progr...

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Change, Not Recovery

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tuesday's elections show Americans are still looking for change. They are casting protest votes in both parties. But the real battle about direction has only just begun.

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Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the U.S. increases exports, mercantilist nations like China, Germany and Japan will have to save less and spend more, import more and export less.

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Why Barack Obama Cannot Prevent America's Next Great Depression

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama may be fated to travel the same path as Gorbachev, and like him, end up as a valiant failure.

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Cheney Hits Obama Again: 'Devastating' Economic Policies

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's expansion of the federal government into the financial sector is likely to have "devastating" effects in the long term, forme...

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Larry Summers: Brilliant Mind, Toxic Ideas

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was on Summers' watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched. It would be hard to make assumptions that turned out to be more wrong than his were.

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Obama Adviser: Stimulus Won't Be Sexist, Not Just Help For "Burly Men"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama transition team put out a video on Sunday detailing the job creation components of their proposed stimulus legislation. Putting aside, for ...

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Obama Defends Stimulus Against Critics

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama said today that he never expected the process of crafting a stimulus package to be easy and that he welcomed any idea, regardless of auth...

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How Bad Could It Get?

Lawrence Mishel and John Irons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama is calling on Congress to pass a stimulus package that will cost $700B or more over two years. That could create 2.5M jobs in the first year and a total of 5M jobs in the first two years.

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State Money: Obama Set To Battle GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Following a series of meetings with lawmakers on Monday, President-elect Barack Obama has seemingly bolstered even further his chance of passing a mas...

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Rosa DeLauro Unlikely To Be Labor Secretary

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Several sources have chimed in to say that DeLauro is not likely to get the nod for Labor Secretary. No explanations were offered, but the sou...

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Obama's Economic Ambition: Stimulus By Jan. 20

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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CBS News reports on President-elect Barack Obama's economic plans, which have rapidly expanded as the crisis has worsened: With the stock market wo...

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Obanomics

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama fundamentally trusts markets, but believes that they make grievous errors (I'll say!), and that those errors must at times be aggressively corrected. Is that a new idea? If so, then no wonder we're screwed.

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President-Elect Obama's First Big Mistake

Mark Cuban | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's economic advisory team looks more like a semester's worth of guest speakers for an MBA class than a team that can truly help him. Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess. Talk to them.

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It Was About Stupid, Stupid

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

Many McCain apologists have suggested that the meltdown in the stock market over the last month doomed his campaign. That assessment seems far too friendly.

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Obama's Economic Plan

Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Posted 05.25.2011

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Regrettably, the road kill of Obama's reckless rhetoric and policies is not the rich taxpayer, but the entire American economy.

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Senator McCain, Regulated Capitalism is Not Socialism

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Using the pejorative word "socialism" to describe an honorable progressive income tax is shameful in these difficult times -- and it is also just plain wrong.

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Barack Obama's America

Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Posted 05.25.2011

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What Obama offers, in substance and in spirit, is a radical departure from the principles of the American Dream that has defined our nation over the last two centuries.

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