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Reich: Obama "Over-Learned" From Clinton (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clinton Lesson, Robert Reich, Clinton Years, Reich Labor Secretary, Obama Health Care, Health Care System, Labor Health Care, Politics News

In crafting health care legislation, the Obama White House may have "over-learned the lesson of the Clinton years," giving too much deference to Congr...

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The Simple Arithmetic of Federal Deficits, A Counterpoint to the New York Times Analysis

David Fiderer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Deficit, Karl Rove, Robert Reich, Greta Van Susteren, Federal Budget Deficit, Financial Meltdown, Budget, Economic Meltdown, Business News
David Fiderer

Robert Reich and the Times would have offered more cogent analyses had they let the numbers do the talking. The numbers show how we've been kidding ourselves for a long time.

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A Snow(e) Job for SURE!

Claudia Ricci | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Olympia Snowe, Robert Reich, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Claudia Ricci

Olympia Snowe you should be ashamed. You and th rest of your cronies. How would you feel if you had no health insurance? Huh?

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The National Debt: Another Finanical Crisis in Slow Motion?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Ben Bernanke, Robert Reich, National Debt, American Stock Exchange, Inflation, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

The so-called "rich" can't be taxed enough to mitigate the coming wave of inflation, nor will increasing taxes on them pay for everything that's currently on the table

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Random Observations on the Sotomayor Nomination

Paul Helmke | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Bill Clinton, US Supreme Court, Meet the Press, Robert Reich, Face the Nation, Greg Craig, David Gregory, Gun Control, Eric Holder, Guns, Heller Decision, Rahm Emanuel, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Bob Schieffer, Barack Obama, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Sotomayor's respect for precedent, as well as her real world experiences as a prosecutor, give me hope that she will understand the need for responsibilities when it comes to evaluating gun laws.

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Robert Reich Economist Interview: Reich Is Pessimistic On Recovery

The Economist | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Robert Reich Interview, Robert Reich, Economic Crisis, The Economist, Economy, Business News

IN OUR lead story this week we say that the worst thing for the world economy would be to assume the worst is over. In order to reinforce our gloom, D...

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With Friends Like These...Robert Reich's "Mistakes" on Employee Free Choice Act

Art Levine | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Robert Reich, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Art Levine

EFCA backers were no doubt thrilled to hear the only liberal on CNBC mimic conservative falsehoods on employee free choice.

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Sam Stein

"Fire Ken Lewis": Robert Reich Backs Push (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

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Former Labor Secretary and occasional adviser to the president Robert Reich, alongside a coalition of progressive organizations, has launched a new pu...

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A Short Citizen's Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day

Robert Reich | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Day, Teabag, Tax Day Tea Party, Teabagging, Robert Reich, Tea Party, Politics News
Robert Reich

Tax day typically attracts a range of right-wing kooks, all of whom tell us how awful we have it. Here's a citizen's guide responding to the predictable charges.

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A Plea to President Obama: Don't Bankrupt America

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, George Soros, William Black, Wall Street Bailout, A New Way Forward, Jeffrey Sachs, Robert Reich, David Korten, Economy, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, Larry Summers, Barack Obama, Chris Hedges, William Greider, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Banking Crisis, Bailout Backlash, Timothy Geithner, YES! Magazine, Bill Moyers, Bill Grieder, Politics News
Sarah van Gelder

Dear President Obama, I'm getting a sinking feeling. Watching your appointees' latest bank bailout makes me wonder if all your administration's good ...

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The Left isn't Leaving Obama -- Yet

Rupert Russell | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Think Tanks, Left Wing, Robert Reich, Conservatives, Interest-Groups, Rachel Maddow, Michael Moore, Card-Check, Paul Krugman, Intellectual, Unions, Labor Unions, Barack Obama, Arianna Huffington, David Frum, Obama's Economic Team, Politics News
Rupert Russell

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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How Geithner Can Bow Out Gracefully

Larry Arnstein | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prostitution Ring, Timothy Geithner, Robert Reich, Sex Scandal, Sex, Secretary of the Treasury, Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, President Obama, Politics News
Larry Arnstein

Finding a ring of high class hookers in Washington is like going outside and throwing a rock, in pretty much any direction.

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America Does Not Trust Geithner, Summers to Regulate Wall Street

Jane Hamsher | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larrey Summers, Joseph-Cassano, Aig, Timothy Geithner, Credit Default Swaps, Robert Reich, Firedoglake, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

American taxpayers now own 80% of AIG. They'll be paying back the government, and paying off the bonuses, with our money. There is no reason to be tiptoeing around these people.

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Friday Talking Points [64] -- Populist Rage!

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Truth be told, it's actually been kind of a "talking points week" for me this week. On Monday, I wrote about how the Democrats need to frame the stim...

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"It's the Psychology, Stupid!"

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 02.01.2009 | Living

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Thus my Sunday morning sentiment: we need a Psychologist General. I can't tell you how many times I found this professionally self-centered idea in my mouth.

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"Words and Ideas Have Real-World Consequences"

Kety Esquivel | Posted 01.30.2009 | Home

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Kety Esquivel

For more than a year now, we at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) have been chronicling hate on the nation's airwaves, mostly surrounding the imm...

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Sam Stein

Krugman, Reich, Take Obama Up On Stimulus Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

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Last week, Barack Obama let it be known that when it came to formulating a stimulus bill, all ideas were welcome -- whether they came from the bowels ...

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Phasing Out of Transition and Into the Book Business

Mike Lux | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

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Mike Lux

Leaving transition work, I find myself a lot more hopeful about generally progressive policy coming out of the Obama administration than some of my friends in the progressive blogosphere.

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Bush Punts Auto Industry to Team Obama; UAW Concedes Even More

Steve Parker | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.

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US Recession May Be Worst Since World War II

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Reich Depression, Debt, Robert Reich, Economy, Us Recession World War II, US Recession, Recession, Business News

Bloomberg News reports that the massive job losses in the U.S. last month signal the nation may be headed towards its worst recession since World War ...

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Obama: Elixir or Delegator?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Change, Robert Reich, Robert Gates, Department of Defense, Delegator, Hillary Clinton, Delegation, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Obama Administration, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

It takes wisdom to seek counsel and courage to take a stand. We know Mr. Obama has courage, that he'll act when he thinks the time has come. We can only hope that he sees the time is here.

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The Lure of Keynesianism

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Free Market, Economy, Robert Reich, Money, Keynes, Socialism, Capitalism, Free Market Ideology, Keynesian Economics, Business News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The way out of our crisis is to limit further the influence of government over the economy, so that even if someone could afford to buy political influence, there would be very little to sell.

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Obama's Picks and the Ideology of No Ideology

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: USA Today, Robert Reich, Economic Crisis, Economy, Constellation Energy, Boeing, David Brooks, Judge Judy, New Yrok Times, PBS "Washington Week", Timothy Geithner, Corporate Power, Mark Weisbrot, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, National Mining Association, Ideology, Politics News
Norman Solomon

On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama's picks "are not ideological." The incoming president's key economic adviser...

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Obanomics

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Obama, Robert Reich, Economics, Barack Obama, Obama Economics, Obanomics, Obama Economy, Business News
Joshuah Bearman

Obama fundamentally trusts markets, but believes that they make grievous errors (I'll say!), and that those errors must at times be aggressively corrected. Is that a new idea? If so, then no wonder we're screwed.

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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