Economic Fundamentals

Jason Linkins

Fox News Misleads Viewers With Biden Splice (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics


ThinkProgress made an excellent catch today, of the sort that I'm frankly surprised are still available to make, given the increased capacity that the...

Even In An Election Year, "Most Productive" Isn't "Hardest Working"

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business


Philip N. Cohen

American politicians are unanimous in their patriotic zeal, but please don't confuse rhetoric with reality.

Stiglitz: The Fall of Wall Street Is to Market Fundamentalism What the Fall of the Berlin Wall Was to Communism

Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business


Nathan Gardels

"Obama's diagnosis that our financial sector is in desperate shape is correct. And if it is in desperate shape, that means our economy is in desperate shape."

The Fundamentals of the Economy are Not Strong

Jeff Madrick | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business


Jeff Madrick

Of course, Americans workers are energetic and skilled. But this does not mean the fundamentals are nearly in place for rapid economic growth in the new global environment.

Lipstick on a Bourgeois Pig

Michael Seitzman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics


Michael Seitzman

Notice that the minute there is a disaster of any sort, Old Man Winter responds in two ways - the disaster is either not actually happening and you're just whining, or, he's going to make sure it never happens again.

Jason Linkins

Chris Matthews Battles Nancy Pfotenhauer Over Economic Fundamentals (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media


The whole tete-a-tete might have ended up being scored a draw were it not for Pfotenhauer's bizarre decision to debate middle-class economics while dressed in the aristocratic weeds of the Baroness Dierdre Von Goldencollar.

Seth Colter Walls

McCain's Economic "Fundamentals" Definition Ripped By Obama Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


John McCain quickly got hammered by Barack Obama on Monday when he declared that the "fundamentals of our economy are still strong" at an event in Jac...