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Dan Froomkin

Hey Corporate America: Looking For A Solution To The Jobs Crisis? You're Sitting On It

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Political Economy Research Institute, Hoarding Cash, Unemployment, Excess Reserves, Robert Pollin, Job Creation, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Corporate America is sitting right on top of the solution to the nation's employment crisis, according to a new report from a group of U...

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After the Deficit Committee, A New Propaganda Push From the War Profiteers

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Aerospace Industries Association, Political Economy Research Institute, Robert Pollin, Pentagon, Debt, Peri, Buck Mckeon, Leon Panetta, Bill Hartung, Supercommittee, Second to None, Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation, Deficit, Military, Lloyd Dumas, War Costs, Marion Blakey, Derrick Crowe, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

We've got to push back with the truth: military spending costs jobs compared to other ways of spending the money.

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Dan Froomkin

Job Creation Idea No. 9: Encourage Banks To Lend -- Or Else

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Pollin, America Needs Jobs, Bob Pollin, 20 Jobs Ideas, Banks, Excess Reserves, Business News

(No. 9 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.) This jobless "recovery" we are in right now is no accident. That's because corporate fat cat...

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Federal Reserve: Same Old Sheriff on Wall St.

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Robert Pollin, Barack Obama, Politics News
The Real News

The Fed already was tasked with bank oversight, but allowed the excess and recklessness to continue due to lack of transparency and accountability.

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Talking Full Employment... Now?

Dave Belden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Pollin, Green Economy, Economic Stimulus, Paul Krugman, Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Employment, Green News
Dave Belden

Co-economics is the dream being hatched now, but what else -- apart from full employment -- must it include?

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The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Bob Marley, The Next President, Robert Reich, Bretton Woods, Karl Marx, Obama Administration, The Great Recession, Robert Pollin, Capitalism, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ken Mehlman, Communism, Congressional Bailout, Secretary of Labor Reich, Ben Bernanke, Jeb Hensarling, Socialism, Keynesians, Bank Bailout, Business News
Larry Abrams

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

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