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Obama's Thrifty Claims Prove False

2012-05-26T10:50:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpaye...

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Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: The Leader Of The Future Comes From The Past

2012-05-26T09:04:39Z

f we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. We need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

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Romney Argues Big Spending Cuts Would Cause 'Depression,' Contrary To Tea Party Activists

2012-05-25T13:24:02Z

Republican House Speaker John Boehner and GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney have, in the course of the past week, pushed starkly different approach...

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Tim Roemer: America's Emerging Economic Reincarnation

2012-05-25T11:41:13Z

Four global forces, as they are leveraged and exploited by American business and political leaders, will help the United States recreate itself and revive into a 21st century economic powerhouse by 2025.

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William K. Black: Romney Messes Up, Tells the Truth About Austerity

2012-05-25T10:00:00Z

Mitt Romney has periodic breakdowns when asked questions about the economy because he sometimes forgets the need to lie, as happened recently in an interview with Time magazine.

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Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

2012-05-25T08:36:24Z

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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Synchronized Sinking

2012-05-25T05:51:13Z

Thing One: Synchronized Sinking: Sometimes togetherness is not such a good thing.

A bunch of downbeat economic data on Thursday all at once caused ...

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Richard Barrington: Testing the Fed's Predictions

2012-05-22T18:39:42Z

How good is the Federal Reserve at its job?
That can be a difficult question to answer. Monetary policy is subjective, and it can take years before t...

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Jeffrey P. Colin: Media, Poverty and a Lack of Concern

2012-05-24T10:34:09Z

As far back as 2008, members of the progressive advocacy community who focus on poverty were decrying a lack of coverage of rising poverty levels by the media. Since that point, the problem has gotten much worse.

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Steve Dubb: Why Building Community Wealth Is a Key Challenge to Corporate Power

2012-05-24T09:42:07Z

As resistance has grown to America's widening gulf between the "1 percent" and the rest of the population, something new has exploded in America's communities; "community wealth building" is an explicit strategy to democratize the ownership of wealth from the ground up.

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Lloyd Chapman: NAACP Silent as Federal Contracts to Minority-Owned Small Businesses Drop

2012-05-24T09:27:28Z

I'm surprised that the NAACP has been silent on an issue that strikes at the heart of the organization's mission. That is, federal contracting with small businesses owned by minorities has dropped significantly in the last year.

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Rana Florida: Your Start-up Life: Best Business Books to Groom Your Team

2012-05-24T08:46:35Z

Insights about business can be gleaned from almost any good book -- whether it's a memoir by a professional athlete or a page-turning account of the ups and downs of a frenetic political campaign.

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Robert Scheer: Do the Bain Hustle

2012-05-24T04:12:59Z

Obviously Barack Obama was right in criticizing Mitt Romney's stewardship of Bain Capital. How else to evaluate the business experience that Romney has made a central tenet of his campaign?

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Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

2012-05-23T20:32:48Z

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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Jared Bernstein: Looking Over the Cliff

2012-05-23T12:13:42Z

Let's talk about the fiscal cliff -- you know, the one everyone's all wound up about? Well, the Congressional Budget Office just released their analysis of its potential impact on the economy and it ain't pretty. Add up all the stuff that's scheduled to turn into fiscal pumpkins at midnight on December 31, and you could get a serious impact on the economy. Unemployment would reverse course and start rising if that fiscal scenario remained in place -- but that's a big, important "if." All of the estimates assume we go off the cliff and don't climb back. But if, as Gail Collins imagines it, there's a bungee jump instead of a cliff dive, we can avoid the worst of this. One hopes that Congress can hammer the kind of compromise that has eluded them thus far -- the one that adds tax revenues to any agreement -- before the end of the year, or early next.

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Mike Green: 3 Ways to Save America's Black Boys, Pt. 2 of 3

2012-05-23T10:00:05Z

Waiting on government for a solution is like waiting on Superman; neither will rescue our Black boys. That's our job.

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David Leopold: The Startup Act 2.0 Offers Immigration Solutions That Will Create American Jobs

2012-05-22T22:00:41Z

The proposal recognizes that the best way to attract foreign born entrepreneurs is to create a business investment/job creation friendly path to citizenship.

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Irene Finel-Honigman: A Note of Caution

2012-05-22T15:16:28Z

There may be a momentary pride in the drachma as a symbol of Greece standing up to Europe and reasserting its independence, but sadly neither investors nor markets are likely to share the sentiment.

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Mike Lux: The Bain of our Existence

2012-05-22T13:57:32Z

This debate about Bain Capital is one we need to have. What kind of business activity, and what kind of government policy, is better for America? Republicans, you better batten down the hatches, because we are going to have this debate.

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Gar Alperovitz: The Rise of the New Economy Movement

2012-05-22T12:17:16Z

The "New Economy Movement" is a far-ranging coming together of organizations, projects, activists, theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up.

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Mark Axelrod: Not Feign Capital, Bain Capital; or, Job Re-Creation for Dummies

2012-05-22T11:09:36Z

I wanted to give Romney the benefit of the doubt, especially about Bain, since his relationship to Bain and to job creation has been such a focalizing issue of his "I can create jobs" presidential campaign.

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Katie Hawkes: Grad School: Worth the Price Tag?

2012-05-22T11:05:06Z

Maybe if we stopped viewing the value of education for the value of its price tag, we'd get a clearer picture of the pros and cons of grad school. Not everything can be properly evaluated with a financial measuring stick.

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Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Men in Pink

2012-05-22T10:40:11Z

I saw a piece in the NYT about men taking jobs in traditionally female-dominated fields. It features male dental assistants, nurses (paging Gaylord Focker!) and teachers. Which is cool. Mostly.

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José Fernando López: Civil Rights, Economy and Elections

2012-05-20T07:49:15Z

Independently of its importance and the fact that some analysts think otherwise, civil rights, in my opinion, won't be a central issue in the voters' decision. All points toward the economy will continue being the dominant issue among voters, Hispanics included.

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April Salchert: Facebook Rehab: Congratulations Mark, I'm Leaving

2012-05-20T16:34:20Z

As Mr. Zuckerberg enjoys his Wall Street campaign and wedding nuptials, I am disappearing into the social media shadows. As an activity, it dangerously toes a line of ridiculous social behavior.

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