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John R. Talbott: A Bold Plan to Get Americans Working Again

2012-05-29T08:33:46Z

What if the Treasury borrowed $2 trillion dollars in a series of 100 year bond offerings at say 4.5%? Rather than have the government waste the money on unneeded projects or squander it on more bank bailouts, the $2 trillion of proceeds could be distributed to the American people.

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It Ain't Over: They Ditched Their Jobs In The Stock Market For Pickles

2012-05-29T07:12:00Z

One of the reasons I started my website, is that I wanted a place for women to come together and dream. Women should know that they don't have to hang...

Read more: Reinvention, Marlo Thomas, Women, Small Business, It Ain't Over, Stock Market, Women in Business, Business, Slideexpand, Recession, Small Business America, Fifty News

Mitch Feierstein: A Hundred Billion Here, a Hundred Billion There

2012-05-28T14:37:43Z

Last week the Financial Times ran a piece which opened thus: "Greece's banking system is being propped up by an estimated €100 billion provided by the country's central bank -- approved secretly by the European Central Bank." The news barely made it into the U.S. press.

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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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Government Report Contradicts GOP On Dire Situation

2012-05-22T21:10:00Z

A new government report said spending cuts scheduled to go into effect in 2013, coupled with the simultaneous expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, will sh...

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Government Squabbling Could Push The U.S. Into Recession, CBO Says

2012-05-23T09:08:00Z

* Fiscal restraint in 2013 could lead to contraction-CBO * No restraint over long run not sustainable-CBO By Lucia Mutik...

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Edward Wyckoff Williams: The Romney Hypocrisy: Bain, Job Creation Fallacies and the Working-Class White Vote

2012-05-18T17:04:40Z

Perhaps Mitt Romney insists on making the 2012 campaign a referendum on President Obama's record, in an effort to ignore his own. The stark contrast between Barack's legacy and Mitt's lies could not be more apparent.

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Drew Madsen: How Big Business Can Help Small Nonprofits Survive Tough Times

2012-05-16T17:47:18Z

Seven-in-eight nonprofits report they face increased demand for services this year, but 57 percent say they only have enough cash at one time to sustain their own operations for three months or less.

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Alan Grayson: Unemployment: Why

2012-05-16T08:36:16Z

Why is this recession different from all other recessions? There is a simple answer: the austerity fetish. The bizarre notion that cutting is healing.

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Charles Peralo: What The Bitcoin Experiment Started

2012-05-16T08:27:28Z

Bitcoin created a decentralized currency that cannot be counterfeited, will not create inflation and is free for everyone to use. Now the challenge is building confidence in alternative currency.

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WATCH: Alan Simpson Levels 'Hysteria' Criticism At Paul Krugman

2012-05-16T12:27:06Z

Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator from Wyoming who co-chaired President Barack Obama's debt commission in 2010, took a swipe at one of his m...

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Meryl Ain, Ed.D.: It's Scholarship Season -- Helping Graduates and Preserving Memories

2012-05-15T15:38:20Z

In these difficult economic times where discretionary funds are diminishing, a scholarship, no matter how small, can enhance the life of a young person. It also carries on the living memory of a loved one.

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Eurozone's Economy 'Not Likely To Recover Any Time Soon'

2012-05-15T05:00:00Z

* Euro zone GDP stable at 0.0 pct change in Q1 from Q4 2011 * Germany surprises with 0.5 percent growth in Q1 * French g...

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Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam: Renew America: It's the Econometrics, Stupid!

2012-05-14T17:05:01Z

We need to realize that it's the econometrics, stupid. If we do not, we will continue to develop, promote and implement policies, plans and programs that are mediocre at best and counter-productive at best.

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Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Krugman's Macroeconomic Rants

2012-05-14T09:25:23Z

Let's coordinate a mass rehiring of workers on a voluntary basis by asking all large and medium-sized employers to increase their employment by 5 percent.

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David Woolner: FDR's New Deal Shattered the Austerity Myth

2012-05-07T17:51:10Z

Much like the 1930s, our slow climb out of the Great Recession has been made all the more difficult thanks to the unwillingness of austerity hawks in Congress to pass the president's jobs bill and other pieces of stimulus legislation.

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Deepak Chopra: America's Future, a Choice in Black and White

2012-05-07T17:27:30Z

For 40 years, ever since Nixon's law-and-order agenda gave the impetus, the trend in social policy has been skewed to eliminate compassion and focus entirely on rule breaking.

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Jane White: This Time It's Different -- Old Remedies Won't Fix Our Flat-World Economy

2012-05-06T20:11:35Z

President Obama wants to remove tax incentives for companies who takes jobs abroad and reward those who bring them back home. But will a different tax tactic do the trick?

Read more: Outsourcing, Tax Cuts, Mitt Romney, Ben Bernanke, China, Recession, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Overseas-Jobs, Politics News

Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Making More Jobs in Our Economy -- The Secret Sauce

2012-05-05T13:10:58Z

The invisible hand that Adam Smith said would guide competitive economies to socially desirable outcomes seems to have lost several fingers.

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Sheldon Filger: U.S. Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall as Discouraged Workers 'Disappear'

2012-05-04T20:58:23Z

The real meaning of the April jobs number is that the participation of age-eligible Americans in the labor force -- both working and unemployed -- is at a 30 year low. How is that synonymous with an economic recovery?

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Jeremy White: Generational Warfare

2012-05-04T13:32:39Z

The true problem we are experiencing today is not a case of the pleebs versus the aristocracy but is in fact a form of generational warfare.

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Oregon Reforms Health Care For Poor Residents

2012-05-03T18:32:00Z

Oregon may have found a way to improve the health care it provides poor residents while saving money. The federal government has agreed to give the st...

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The Surprising Reason Productivity Is Falling

2012-05-03T10:25:36Z

WASHINGTON — U.S. worker productivity fell from January through March by the most in a year. Stronger hiring at the start of the year was partly...

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We Could Still Be In A Recession If Not For The Stimulus, Report Finds

2012-05-02T15:15:02Z

The recovery's been weak these last few years. But if the federal government hadn't reacted to the financial crisis the way it did, things would have ...

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Nedda Alammar: The Job Market: Stand Out or Put Out

2012-05-01T09:04:17Z

There is no excuse for feeling like a failure at life in your thirties as opposed to your twenties when you're supposed to be a failure. We know so much more now.

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