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GOP Candidate Claimed Not To Know Stimulus Benefited Family Business

2012-05-30T13:36:48Z

Jesse Kelly, a Republican congressional candidate in Arizona who has been critical of the economic stimulus, declared during a 2010 debate that he did...

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Arianna Huffington: Austerity: 2011's Darling Becomes 2012's Pariah

2012-05-29T16:58:49Z

There's a new scarlet letter in town. Actually, it's the same letter -- "A" -- but it stands for a different word that's increasingly regarded as shameful: Austerity. The darling idea of 2010 and 2011 has become the pariah concept of 2012. And the evidence of profound change is all around, from France and Greece to Germany and -- gasp -- the Republican Party. The change, when it comes to the conventional wisdom on austerity, has come from a combination of public pressure and leadership: one pushing up from below, the other pressing down from above. None of this means that we should break out the Keynesian champagne any time soon. But it's clear the forces of austerity are in retreat. And that's a very good thing.

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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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Romney Argues Big Spending Cuts Would Cause 'Depression,' Contrary To Tea Party Activists

2012-05-25T13:24:02Z

Republican House Speaker John Boehner and GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney have, in the course of the past week, pushed starkly different approach...

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Bob Cesca: The Truth About the President and the Deficit

2012-05-23T17:41:42Z

Arguably the biggest lie coming from the Republicans and the Romney campaign is that President Obama is a tax and spend liberal who's directly and personally responsible for record deficits and a crushing national debt.

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At G8 Summit, Obama Emphasizes Growth Over Austerity

2012-05-20T17:16:20Z

CAMP DAVID, Md. -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declar...

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Romney's Weird Campaign Event To Nowhere

2012-05-18T00:01:00Z

Mitt Romney will campaign Friday in New Hampshire, looking for his own "bridge to nowhere." The Romney camp thinks they have found it in a 19th centur...

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Talking With Krugman: He's Anti-Austerity, Pro-Peter Gabriel, and "Not That Cosmic"

2012-05-15T12:12:53Z

Paul Krugman's book is called End This Depression Now! (exclamation point included). If that sounds like a self-help book -- the sequel to Listening to Prozac, maybe, or something by Dr. Wayne Dyer -- that's not altogether inappropriate in this age of collective near-despair.

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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 Coates: Poverty and Unemployment: The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration

2012-05-11T09:10:19Z

Back in the 1930s, it took FDR two goes to get his New Deal up and running. It is time for the Obama Administration to take heart from that, and have a second go itself.

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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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Republican Groups Fund Ads Attacking Obama With Misinformation

2012-04-30T13:57:06Z

Top Republican groups released web videos attacking President Barack Obama last week with an emphasis on the president's record on green-energy invest...

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Tea Party-Backed Bill Gutting Green Programs Advances In Arizona

2012-04-26T19:01:45Z

WASHINGTON -- An Arizona Tea Party-backed bill that would gut government-run green programs in the state may have the support it needs to go before Go...

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Want Jobs? Rescue Homeowners -- and Spend, Baby, Spend

2012-04-06T13:05:55Z

Let's tax the wealthy, help homeowners, and spend some money to put more people back to work. When that's done we can pivot to deficit reduction -- with millions of additional workers able to contribute to that effort with their taxes.

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Jared Bernstein: Stuck at Zero

2012-04-03T09:44:31Z

I've pretty much stopped exhorting policy makers to engage in deficit-financed fiscal stimulus, not because we no longer need it -- we do -- but because it feels like a waste of time. With the fading of the Recovery Act along with state and local budget cuts, U.S. fiscal policy has turned contractionary. Yes, the economy is getting better, and pretty consistently at that. But it's still a slog, and gas prices are pushing the other way, among other factors. So I'm going to briefly drag the idea of stimulus out of hiding for two reasons. First, there's been a spate of research on the bang from fiscal stimulus in certain situations. And second, because Europe is providing such a sad, natural experiment of this forgotten thesis.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Democrats' Jobs Dilemma: Celebration vs. Call to Action

2012-03-12T05:01:34Z

The fastest growing category of employment is in temp work, followed by health care and "leisure" -- which is described as consisting primarily of "food service and drinking places." If it's "morning again in America," at least we know somebody's been hired to pour the coffee.

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Mark Gongloff: Can We Please Stop Giving This Man Important Jobs Now?

2012-02-29T12:25:01Z

What exactly does Larry Summers have to do to stop being offered important jobs? Hold up a liquor store? Kill a guy?

That is the question many are as...

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Obama vs. Obama: One Budget, Two Competing Visions of the Future

2012-02-21T03:13:34Z

The Western world is divided between two visions of our economic future. One is of austerity and the other is of growth. One is of hope and possibility, the other of despair and cynicism. The battle between these two visions has divided the United States and the entire Western world.

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Michael Linden: Did the Stimulus Work?

2012-02-17T08:40:38Z

President Obama's political opponents insist that the stimulus did nothing to help the economy and some even claim that it made things worse. The numbers, and a newly released video, tell a very different story.

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Jared Bernstein: What's Their Counterfactual?

2012-02-08T09:15:44Z

Mitt Romney's got real economists on his team. If he wants to make the case that things would be better if we followed his plan, which is explicitly anti-stimulus on jobs and would liquidate the housing market, let's see the economic model for how it would work.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Job Numbers Hype: It's Bad Politics and Worse Policy

2012-02-03T23:26:28Z

Government intervention has created millions of jobs. But those interventions were too small, so we're still years away from fixing the problem. It's time for Democrats and their allies to stop partying like it's 2019.

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Lloyd Chapman: The Only Man in America that Obama Has Not Fooled Speaks Out

2012-02-01T09:26:36Z

If you stop listening to Obama read his speeches and start watching what he does, you realize he's anti-small business all the way.

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Obama's Economic Team Was Divided Over Stimulus Spending

2012-01-23T15:30:14Z

When the newly elected President Obama took his place in the White House early in 2009, so too arrived a vocal economic team at odds over the politic...

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Dean Baker: Keystone Jobs Versus Competitive Dollar Jobs

2012-01-02T13:23:27Z

If we want to create jobs, a more competitive dollar provides an excellent alternative to the Keystone Pipeline. It can create many more jobs and it won't threaten the environment.

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Jared Bernstein: Obama and the Economy: Then vs. Now

2011-12-31T09:00:11Z

I was recently asked how some of the key economic indicators are trending going into 2012 from the perspective of the president's record. When Obama took office in January 2009, employment was absolutely cratering. Now it's growing, and, in the private sector, has been since the spring of 2010. The swing from huge negatives to positives is notable and helpful to the president. So he has some strong trend reversals to point to, though while the trend is his friend, the sheer levels still bedevil. Current profits as a share of GDP signal the return of rising income inequality, a major concern for a lot of people today. But here Obama has a very strong case to make that the Republicans' game plan will only make that problem a lot worse.

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