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Rick Perry's Failed Campaign Dissolves In Snipes At Ex-Bush Aide And Massive Bar Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Campaign 2012, Video, Karl Rove, Dave Carney, Rob Johnson, Rick Perry 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential Primary, Karen Hughes, Joe Allbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Most unsuccessful political campaigns involve some measure of finger-pointing after they end. In Rick Perry's case, the back-stabbing be...

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Money Is a Concept: Pain, Hip-Hop, and Economic Soul-Sickness

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Jared Bernstein, Kanye West, Chuck D, Representative Currency, History of Money, Otis Redding, John Lennon, Rob Johnson, William Jennings Bryan, Stock Market, Buddhism, Terrance Mcnally, Drew Dellinger, Rebecca Solnit, Horse Racing, Jay-Z, Third World America, Business News

These are disastrous times for millions of people, and our zero-sum money system can only enrich the few by bringing pain to the many. Can we build an economic policy out of our shared crisis and find a common purpose in its solution?

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Obama's Presidency: A Tale to Date of Missed Domestic Opportunities

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Timothy Geithner, Unemployment, Paul Volcker, Rob Johnson, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Obama was dazzling in his decision-making to send U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six to get Osama bin Laden. It's now time for him to adopt this same laser-like focus on creating jobs.

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New Economic Thinking Conference To Shatter Illusion of Control

Steve Clemons | Posted 06.07.2011

As INET Executive Director Rob Johnson said, "last year's conference punctured the mystique of market stability (not to mention real events). This year, the conference will shatter the illusion of control."

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Restoring the Balance

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street, Economics, Tim Geithner, Rob Johnson, Leo Hindery, Jobs, Larry Summers, National Economic Council, Macroeconomics, Politics News

Picking a new head for the National Economic Council is an important moment for the president's rapidly realigning White House staff. It is an opportu...

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Restoring the Balance

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economics, Wall Street, Rob Johnson, Tim Geithner, Leo Hindery, Larry Summers, Jobs, National Economic Council, Macroeconomics, Politics News

Picking a new head for the National Economic Council is an important moment for the president's rapidly realigning staff. The old economic models are broken, and a little entrepreneurial populism is exactly what is needed.

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Weekly Audit: Save Affordable Housing, Help Revive America's Middle Class

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Over the past decade, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transformed themselves into some of the worst-run companies ...

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IMF Protesters Try to Disrupt Cambridge University Address by Strauss-Kahn

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Auerback, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Robert Kuttner, George Soros, Yves Smith, Joseph Stiglitz, Adair Turner, James Galbraith, Rob Johnson, John Shattuck, Kings College, Imf, Simon Johnson, Lawrence Mishel, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Politics News

IMF Executive Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is "cool under fire", as Central European University President John Shattuck said when introducing him, and didn't break his stride during his presentation at Kings College, University of Cambridge.

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Move Your Money Campaign Directors Detail The Grassroots Movement (AUDIO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dennis Santiago, Bailout Bandits, Move Your Money, Audio, Banks, Rob Johnson, Business News

Dennis Santiago, one of the directors of the Move Your Money campaign, sat down for interview with Damien Hoffman to offer some details on how the mov...

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MSNBC Panel: Banks Cannot Be Allowed To Write Their Own Reform (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msnbc, Video, Economy, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Banks, Rob Johnson, Dylan Ratigan, Business News

Josh Rosner and Rob Johnson joined Dylan Ratigan on his MSNBC show this afternoon to discuss the dangers facing the economy if significant financial r...

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Fresh Ideas From Leading Thinkers For True Financial Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Soros, Jim Chanos, Elizabeth Warren, Financial Reform, Cfpa, Financial Regulation, Roosevelt Institute, Tbtf, Rob Johnson, Erica Payne, Financial Crisis, Andrew Rich, Too Big to Fail, Make Markets Be Markets, Consumer Financal Protection Agency, Video, Business News

What will it take to fix the nation's broken financial system? If anyone really knows for sure, it's the great minds gathering in New York for a confe...

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Bond Fund Goliath Pimco Hires Head Of Government's $700 Billion Tarp Program; Citizens Pick Up Your Slings!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasurry Department, Hank Paulson, Pimco, Bill Gross, Politics, Media, Wall St. Journal, Taxpayers, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Neel T. Kashkari, Rob Johnson, New York Times, Tarp, Financial Crisis, Fannie Mae, Business News

Pimco's hiring of Neel Kashkari is a slap in the face for a public who is sated with examples of government handouts to the undeserving and the revolving door coziness perpetuated at public expense and detriment.

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"A New Agenda for America": Eliot Spitzer, Elizabeth Warren And 13 Others Reflect On The 80-Year Anniversary Of The Stock Market Crash of 1929

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, William Black, Unemployment, New Deal 2.0, Rob Johnson, Bruce Judson, Financial Crisis, The Great Crash, Bill Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eliot Spitzer, Recession, 80-Year Anniversary of the Great Crash, Business News

"A New Agenda for America"- On the 80th Anniversary of Great Crash, What Have We Learned and What Lies Ahead? 80 years ago today, on October 29th...

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Move Your Money's Rob Johnson On Tech Ticker: 'The American People Are Energized By This'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Move Your Money, Yahoo Tech Ticker, Huffington Move Your Money, Rob Johnson, Video, Business News

Economist Rob Johnson spoke with Aaron Task and Henry Blodget on Yahoo's Tech Ticker today about Move Your Money, the project that encourages people t...

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Audit The Fed Effort Wins Support From An Unusual Coalition

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Max Bauchus, Watt Amendment, Frank, Barney Frank, Aig, Alan Grayson, Lobbyblog, Barney, Rob Johnson, Mel Watt, Audit the Fed, Dean Baker, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

An unusual coalition of progressive economists, labor leaders, and bloggers has decided to fight back against a congressional amendment that would all...

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Rob Johnson Explains Crony Capitalism (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rob Johnson, Financial Crisis, George Soros, Rob Johnson Economic, Crony Capitalism, Video, Business News

In a new series of videos featured on the Real News Network, HuffPost blogger Rob Johnson offers his critique of the government's response to the fina...

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Sen. Maria Cantwell Savages Derivative Reform Legislation: "The Treasury Department Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Cantwell Derivatives Reform, Financial Reform, Maria Cantwell, Rob Johnson, Cantwell Treasury Department, Derivatives Reform, Economic Crisis, Dylan Ratigan, Financial Regulation, Eat the Press, Business News

On today's Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan brought on Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to discuss the ongoing attempts to achieve a measure of financia...

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Move Your Money: Arianna And Rob Johnson Explain How Moving Your Money Can Change The System

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Schultz, Wall Street, Community Banks, Lobbying, Rob Johnson, Lobbyists, Too Big to Fail, Move Your Money, Banks, Arianna, The Ed Show, Business News

Arianna and Rob Johnson, director of the Economic Policy Initiative at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, urged Americans to move their mon...

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Bill Kurtis, Walter Jacobson Reuniting To Anchor CBS 2 News

CBS 2 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kurtis Jacobson CBS, Bill Kurtis, Wbbm Channel 2, Chicago TV News, Walter Jacobson, Rob Johnson, Chicago News

For one night only, the legendary CBS 2 news team of Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson will anchor the news this Friday at 10 p.m....

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AIG Autopsy: Eliot Spitzer Calls For Investigation Like Swiss UBS

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swiss Baking Federation, Economic Crisis, Aig, American International Group, Robert Johnson, Eliot Spitzer, Swiss National Bank, Ubs, Bailout, Rob Johnson, Spitzer, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Video, Business News

Inquiring minds want to know ... where's the inquiry? Three prominent former prosecutors are calling for the government to make AIG release interna...

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Taking on the Big Guys

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Rob Johnson, Financial Reform, Politics News

Even as we are fighting the insurance companies today, we have to get ready to fight the even more powerful Wall St lobby tomorrow, because otherwise our economy, and our very democracy, will be in mortal danger again.

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