HELENA, Mont. — Federal stimulus money to be spent on new tennis courts in Bozeman drew the ire of Montana's governor Tuesday – and sparke...
Edward Harrison | Posted 12.24.2009 | Business
Does fiscal or monetary stimulus work?
Perry Garfinkel | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living
Inconspicuous consumption is not about spending less or wearing a fake mustache when you run to the mall. It's about spending wisely, for the right reasons and to feed your soul.
James Adler | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles
The experience of the New Deal is instructive. Using stimulus money, LA County has designed a program to create 10,000 new jobs paying $10 per hour for 40 hours per week.
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
There is obviously a lot more Obama could have done, and perhaps should have done, but Jacob Weisberg is right that he has actually accomplished a great deal.
Edward Harrison | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
This post originally appeared at Credit Writedowns. In this post: A few thoughts about the limitations of government Our founding fathers How ...
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers ...
John K. Delaney | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration should charter 100 new special "Business Banking Charters," to aggressively participate in lending to small- to mid-sized companies.
Alan Singer | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Governor Paterson's proposal proposed budget cuts (and similar proposals in the other 49 states) are a recipe for an even worse economic disaster than we have had during the past year.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
A year from now voters and the media will take stock of President Obama's mid-term performance. When they do four things will leap out as major Oba...
Ellen Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
If Democrats have deeply-held convictions on how to act to bolster the economy and stem the downward trend in unemployment, they ought to act on them and put some real leadership behind the effort.
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Recession ending? Don't bet on it.
New York Times | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
The consensus among economists is that the recession is over, and, technically, the herd is probably right. Corporate profitability has been boosted b...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Rather than do what is right, Republicans did what was politically convenient, twice blocking the unemployment extension last week in an effort to derail other economic recovery programs.
Diane Francis | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Dr. Bhagwati fleshes out his prescriptions for the world economy and also provides his take on what he calls the "Wall Street Treasury Complex," the cause of the latest economic catastrophe.
David A. Love | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...
Paul A. London | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
History-blind conservatives scare the country by saying that creating more money is a slippery slope to runaway inflation. This is not so. The real danger is the opposite.
Yahoo! News | Sven Egenter | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
GENEVA (Reuters) �" Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world's most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking ...
Dean Baker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Members of Congress would be foolish to ignore the projections provided by the CBO, however they would be irresponsible if they treated this analysis as the final word.
New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York
Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
To the extent that the Clunkers program gave Americans a reason to believe that things can return to normal and to that the government has a handle on recovery, it was a pretty good investment.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion – more than the sum of all pre...
Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
If enough Boomers left the job market, it would flip the current dynamic of too-many-people-chasing-too-few-jobs upside down, and create a tight labor markets.
AP | KEN THOMAS and DAN STRUMPF | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood assured car dealers Wednesday that they will be reimbursed for sales made under the Cash for Cl...
AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 12.30.2009 | Business