May 17, 2008
Think Progress | April 8, 2008 04:56 PM
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted March 28, 2008 | Business
I have an idea to stimulate the economy. This weekend, let's all go out and spend some money.
Yes, I know a lot of us don't have as much to spread around as we used to. But usually, we have something. Ten bucks. Twenty. Those who are more fortunate should...
CNN/Money | Ben Rooney | March 24, 2008 04:08 PM
Jared Bernstein and Nancy Cleeland | Posted March 7, 2008 | Business
One thing to keep in mind as we live through the pain of this deepening recession: It didn't have to happen.
Sure, recessions are part of the natural economic order, implicit in the yin and yang of the business cycle. But often they're brought on by some external shock, like...
Howard Shanker | Posted February 14, 2008 | Business
The bi-partisan stimulus package that President Bush signed with much fanfare yesterday says more about what is wrong with our political process than what it is wrong with our economy. The $168 billion package is a triumph of political expediency over economic basics and common sense.
We are faced with...
Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted February 14, 2008 | Business
Last week, the Congress approved an economic stimulus package that should send approximately $1,500 dollars to my family. Wow, what to do with it? My first thought was to sock it away, but I read that saving the money won't help stimulate the economy and I want to do my...
Mort Gerberg | Posted February 14, 2008 | Business
MarketWatch | Rex Nutting | February 14, 2008 08:45 AM
Linda Seger | Posted February 12, 2008 | Politics
George W. is going to give us back some money in May -- perhaps as much as $300 or $600 or $1200. He thinks that this will make up for his failed economic policies. But isn't this similar to a giving a band-aid to a child who needs a $30,000...
CNN's Political Ticker | Ted Barrett | February 6, 2008 08:36 AM
Nancy Cleeland and Ross Eisenbrey | Posted February 5, 2008 | Business
Giving the jobless an extra three months of checks makes more economic sense than rebates, but the White House says 'No.' It's up to the Senate now.
About 1.4 million Americans have been officially unemployed for more than six months, the magic cutoff point when government...
Political Radar | Byron Wolf | January 31, 2008 12:20 PM
Linda Keenan | Posted January 30, 2008 | Politics
I'm giving my tax rebate away (assuming we ever get one). I'm not doing this because I want your admiration. I want to make a statement about the sacrifice that has never been asked of me during a time of war. I've been reminded this week of President Kennedy's call...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted January 28, 2008 | Business
As the Senate moves to consider the wholly inadequate stimulus package passed by the House -- zip for the jobless, no increase in food stamps, squat for the nation's crumbling infrastructure -- it's useful to consider how the country has come to find itself in the current economic mess.
...Rahm Emanuel | Posted January 28, 2008 | Politics
Across the country families are struggling and Democrats have responded with a plan to provide relief to middle class and working families. The deal announced by Speaker Pelosi is progressive and a sharp departure from the policies of George W. Bush. Rep. Barney Frank called it the most progressive tax...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | January 26, 2008
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted January 25, 2008 | Politics
I hope House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't pose for the cameras with President George W. Bush in a signing ceremony of this misguided and regressive "economic stimulus package." An ill-conceived photo-op will come back to haunt the Democrats when the "package" proves to be a miserable failure and will only...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted January 25, 2008 | Politics
Barbara Ehrenreich memorably called the talk about the stimulus "clitoral economics." And that was before we got screwed.
The stimulus deal just announced is being praised more for its existence than its content. Much lamented partisan bickering was overcome; bipartisan cooperation that got it done. WIth Wall Street bankers...
Nancy Cleeland and Lawrence Mishel | Posted January 24, 2008 | Politics
In their haste to make a deal on a stimulus package, Congressional Democrats are apparently willing to throw good economic sense out the window.
The package outlined in news reports this morning gets it half-right by ensuring that lump sum payments go to the lowest income earners, who need them...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Washington Post | Michelle Singletary | April 10, 2008 08:22 AM