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Diane Tucker: Can't Get A Job? Better Get Used To It

2010-03-05T16:27:51Z

WASHINGTON D.C. -- "Joblessness is here to stay. One current assessment rates the chances a laid-off worker will ever regain his or her income level a...

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Peter Henne: Recklessness Cloaked in Righteousness

2009-05-27T10:53:40Z

Obama's policies are the best chance for ensuring that the United States of America remains the greatest country in the world.

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Sheldon Filger: Why Barack Obama Cannot Prevent America's Next Great Depression

2009-05-19T14:40:02Z

President Obama may be fated to travel the same path as Gorbachev, and like him, end up as a valiant failure.

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Robert Kuttner: Reviving Pecora's Ghost

2009-05-03T21:15:36Z

With Summers, Geithner, and Bernanke working closely with major investment bankers to restart the system of securitization, there will be a titanic struggle over what kind of regulatory system to have going forward.

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Howard Winant: A Response to My Mom on Obama and the Economy

2009-04-06T16:36:33Z

The greatest was Lincoln; the next best was Roosevelt. I think Obama has the potential to be a president on their level.

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Rupert Russell: The Left isn't Leaving Obama -- Yet

2009-04-01T16:55:14Z

Pundits have criticized last week's announcements on the new bank bailout and Afghanistan. Yet, a crack up of the Democratic coalition or fracturing of the progressive movement it is not.

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Robert Kuttner: White House Confidential

2009-03-08T23:07:39Z

From: Barack Obama To: Rahm Emanuel
Dear Rahm, I'm concerned that I'm getting only one viewpoint on how to solve the banking crisis.

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Howard Schweber: What the Hell is Paulson Thinking???

2008-11-12T17:01:39Z

Paulson now says that the administration will not, after all, use any of the $700 billion to purchase asset-based securities. At this point it seems salient to ask, what the hell is going on?

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Today's Obama Press Conference (VIDEO)

2008-11-25T11:42:33Z

President Barack Obama said Tuesday night his attempts to lead the nation out of economic turmoil are beginning to yield results, and toned down his c...

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Teryn Norris: Obama Needs an Economic Philosophy

2009-02-19T18:04:30Z

Obama and his advisors made a critical miscalculation by allowing the political goal of bipartisanship to trump urgent economic necessity and the need for a new economic philosophy.

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Jeffrey Klein: President Obama Fails his First Hard Choice

2009-01-21T10:25:33Z

Obama is failing his first hard choice as President by pushing for Geithner despite his serial cheating on his taxes and his utter failure in his previous job as head of the New York Fed.

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Stimulus Plan Could Give Obama Down Payment On Big Campaign Promises

2009-01-19T00:15:26Z

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is well on his way to finding the silver lining in the economic storm he is inheriting.

The two-year, $82...

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Obama Would Spend Bailout Funds On Housing Crisis

2009-01-14T22:48:34Z

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama would spend the remaining $350 billion of a financial bailout fund on expanded lending and reduced for...

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Charlie Cray: Obama's Wall St. Reforms: Timid at Best

2009-01-13T16:06:38Z

We should be automatically suspicious of any proposals coming out of Washington, starting with Obama's recent request that the Treasury release the second $350 billion.

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Kerry: Obama Within Hours Of Decision On Bailout Funds

2009-01-11T18:04:32Z

President-elect Barack Obama vowed to restructure a financial rescue plan to save more U.S. families from home foreclosures, as he considered on Sunda...

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Obama Plans To Keep Estate Tax

2009-01-11T22:19:39Z

President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, suggesting the levy might ...

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Obama Team Offers Concessions On Stimulus In Talks With Senate Dems

2009-01-11T19:57:57Z

President-elect Barack Obama tried Sunday to shore up support in Congress for his ambitious economic policies, with his top advisers offering concessi...

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Diane Francis: Obama-Nomics Coming

2009-01-06T11:45:44Z

Obama-nomics won't merely be the New Deal Part Two. It will have to be executed along with policies hammered out in partnership with the best minds and most enlightened leaders in the world.

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Mark Weisbrot: Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now

2009-01-05T17:21:03Z

Even if we take into account the rest of our red ink, and we actually hit the dreaded "trillion-dollar deficit" in 2009, how extreme would this be?

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Sheila Tendy: No You Can't -- Why Wall Street Management Refused to Question Good Results

2009-01-04T09:40:35Z

Every financial institution sucked into the vortex of the economic crisis walked precisely the same road -- they put unchecked and unadulterated greed ahead the interests of stability.

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Steve Clemons: Bill Richardson Withdraws Commerce Bid -- Time to Call Leo Hindery

2009-01-04T14:19:47Z

Leo Hindery, who was an economic advisor to the Obama campaign and authored the interesting book It Takes a CEO, is a real stand out who the Obama team should consider for Commerce.

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Dan Solin: Mary Schapiro Will Protect Investors the Same Way Willie Sutton Protected Banks

2009-01-04T15:24:17Z

"Real change" would be to put an investor advocate, and not an industry shill, in charge of the SEC.

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Obama's Speedy Transition "On Pace To Break All Records"

2008-12-21T23:02:21Z

President-elect Barack Obama this weekend virtually completed the naming of his government's top officials, setting transition records for speed but p...

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Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary: Housekeept Problem? Latest News, Video

2008-10-27T16:58:45Z

UPDATE 1/13: The AP reports that Timothy Geithner failed to pay personal taxes and check the immigration status of a housekeeper.

WALL STREET SURGED ...

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Steve Hildebrand: A Message to Obama's Progressive Critics

2008-12-07T14:20:12Z

This is not a time for the left wing of our Party to draw conclusions about the Cabinet and White House appointments that President-Elect Obama is making.

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