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Trickle Down

Will 'Trickle Down' Banking Work Better than 'Trickle Down' Economics: Thoughts from a Non-Wall Street CEO

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Geithner, Bad Banks, Good Banks, Consumer Debt, Wall Street, Trickle Down, New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Economy, Aig, Great Depression, Housing Bubble, Business News
Paul Abrams

Instead of providing government money and guarantees to hedge funds that will supposedly price toxic assets, put the money to good use on main street through regional banks.

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Entrepreneurship Will Lead Us Out of This Mess: Yunus' World From Micro to Macro

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Yunus, Microcredit, Bottom of the Pyramid, Trickle Down, Grameen, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Crisis, Credit as a Human Right, Entrepreneurship, Native American, Cuba, Grameen-Phone, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

This time, instead of believing in the same old trickle down economics, know that it will be grassroots bottom of the pyramid building up.

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Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, The Clintons, James Winborn Turner, Greatest Generation, Man on the Moon, America, 9/11, The Flag, Civil War, Democratization, Win, Reagan, Ayn Rand, American History, Texas History, Houston, Pride, Great Depression, American Nostalgia, Preemptive War, American Know How, Marines, Trickle Down, Meritocracy, Texas, Shareholder Value, Barack Obama, American Attitude, Patriotism, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam, Living News
Stephen Herrington

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

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America's Choice: Destruction or Construction

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Institute for America’s Future, Election 2008 Coverage, Trickle Down, Election Day, Economy, Katharine Lee Bates, Main Street, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Fannie Mae, Election Anxiety, Congress, A Main Street Recovery Program, Barack Obama, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Privatization, Off-Shoring, Deregulation, Foreclosure, America the Beautiful, Alan Greenspan, Tech Bubble, Housing Bubble, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

America is suffering. She is, however, afflicted with an avoidable condition she brought on herself, like a hangover. Only this one's interminable and internationally contagious.

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"Spreading the Wealth" Allows for Creativity

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, David Sirota, Taxes Mccain, John McCain, Trickle Down, Obama Tax Plan, Innovation, Capitalism, Teddy Roosevelt, Campaign 2008, Barack Obama, McCain Tax Plan, Joe the Plumber, Obama Spreading the Wealth, Socialism, Election 2008, Socialism Obama, Spreading the Wealth, Taxes Obama, Home News
Stephen Herrington

If more people have more money, then more business is done and a small increase in taxes comes right back to you. If you are in the forefront of innovation, more comes to you.

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McCain Is Not Bush? - The Failed Economics of Reagan, Bush and McCain

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Trickle Down, Economy, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Presidential Debate 2008, Mccain Wednesday Debate, Presidential Debates, New York Debate, Presidential Debate Results, Obama Mccain Debate Reaction, Presidential Debate, Hofstra Debate Reaction, Debate, Politics News, Presidential Debate Wednesday, Obama Mccain Debate, Debate Reaction, Hofstra Debate, Obama Mccain Debate New York, Obama Wednesday Debate, Presidential Debate New York, The Presidential Debate, Mccain Debate, Obama Debate, McCain-Obama Debate, Obama Mccain Wednesday Debate, Politics News
Bruce Tenenbaum

If John McCain wants us to think he's not the same as George Bush, perhaps he should stop embracing Bush's policies.

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Again With the Trickle Down!?!

Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Trickle-Down Economics, Wall Street Crisis, Economics, Trickle Down, Economy, Business News
Jared Bernstein

How wrongheaded is John McCain's plan to address the ailing economy by cutting the capital gains tax rate, from 15% to 7.5% for the next two years? Let me count the ways.

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Take a Dose of Battle in Seattle to Relieve Washington Fatigue

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ronal Reagan, Fair Trade, Gop, Trickle Down, Economy, Sir Shridath Ramphal, Free Trade, Congress, Global Corporations, Battle in Seattle, Stuart Townsend, Bailout Bill, Mark Engler, World Trade Organization, Wall Street, Doha Round, Foreign Policy in Focus, Nancy Pelosi, Deregulation, Privatization, Republicans, Wto, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

Under the right set of circumstances -- like impending balloting on their re-election -- Congressmen do respond to public outcry.

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Democrats Hope for Future; Republicans Trickle On It

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Off Shore Drilling, Foreclosures, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Green Jobs, Trickle Down, Middle Class, Renewable Energy, Joe Biden, Denver, Democrats, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Inflation, Mark Warner, Mcsame, Hillary Clinton, Nextel, Republicans, Democratic Convention, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The most fundamental difference in how Democrats and Republicans view middle class Americans revealed itself inadvertently in speeches during the second night of the convention in Denver.

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Video: Tax Protest Puts "Me" Over "We"

The Uptake | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, Tax Protest, Jason Lewis, Tax Fairness John Kline, Taxes, Reaganomics, Tax Policy, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Trickle Down, Middle Class, Tax Cuts, Home News
The Uptake

Ronald Reagan's tax policy has been a disaster. The middle class earns less and pays more taxes for less service. The wealthy earn more and pay less. There is no trickle down.

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