Obamanomics

Will Hickenlooper Really Be Pro-Business, or Ritter Redux?

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sean Paige

How Hickenlooper will manage to be "pro-business," while also serving a core party constituency that is hostile to free markets and free enterprise, is a contradiction he'll have to work through.

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GOP Rep: Obama Creating An Ayn Rand Dystopia

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," told me today that the response to Preside...

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Which Obamanomics?

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.

What economic doctrine will "Obamanomics" be based on? Will it be Rubinomics with its focus on fiscal discipline and reigning in spending? Neo-Keynesianism? Or will it be Innovation Economics?

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The End of the Republican Majority: Three Things You Need to Watch

Martin Carnoy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martin Carnoy

The historic 2008 presidential election is over and the main casualty is the Republican Party.

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Democrats Jockey To Shape Obama Agenda

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats inside Sen. Barack Obama's circle of advisers and on Capitol Hill are jockeying even before Election Day to shape an Obama administration's ...

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Outsourcing: How America Is Losing the Trade War

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Fritz Hollings

Globalization is nothing more than a trade war -- with the United States AWOL. We refuse to fight; we refuse to compete in globalization; we refuse to protect our economy and standard of living like the plague.

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