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In The Public Interest: It's Time for Main Street to Score a Win - Will Congress Do the Right Thing?

Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 01.04.2010 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Main Predatory Lending, Wall Street, Bailout, Derivatives, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Too Big to Fail, Cfpa, Main Street, Banks, Financial Crisis, Consumers, Ed Mierzwinski, Business News
Ed Mierzwinski

In 2010, will the Senate be able to reject the self-serving demands of the bank lobby and protect Main Street?

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U.S. Growth Prospects Deemed Bleak In New Decade By Economists

Reuters | Pedro Nicolaci Da Costa | Posted 01.03.2010 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Joseph Stiglitz, u.s. Economic Growth, Economy, Economic Crisis, Economists, Financial Crisis, Banks, Economic Growth, Housing Crisis, Business News

A dismal job market, a crippled real estate sector and hobbled banks will keep a lid on U.S. economic growth over the coming decade, some of the nati...

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Arianna Explains Move Your Money To CNN's Rick Sanchez

Huff TV | Posted 12.31.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Sanchez, Economy, Economic Crisis, Move Your Money, Banks, Financial Crisis, Big Banks, Rick Sanchez, Arianna Huffington, Small Banks, Business News
Huff TV

Arianna spoke to Rick Sanchez on CNN Thursday afternoon to urge Americans to withdraw their money from big bailed out banks and move it into local com...

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Eliot Spitzer: Patent Applications Reflect Shift In Global Economy

Slate Magazine | Eliot Spitzer | Posted 12.29.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Research and Development, Innovation, Patent Filings, Eliot Spitzer, Recession, Patents, Patent Applications, Business News

One way to assess our advantage in innovation is to examine our innovation-patent filings -- the core intellectual foundation of production and intell...

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Left, Right & Center: A Look Back at 2009

Huff Radio | Posted 12.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, U.S. Economy, Global Economy, 2009, Barack Obama, Politics News
Huff Radio

Was the Obama presidency the biggest story of 2009 or was it the economy?

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Why Carbon Caps are Good for U.S. Competitiveness and the Economy

Scott Daniels | Posted 12.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Monitor Group, U.S. Economy, Green Jobs, Competitiveness, Carbon Emissions, Green Technology, Carbon Trading, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Green News
Scott Daniels

The U.S. doesn't just need jobs. It needs a new basis for competitiveness and growth in global markets. Carbon management isn't the opposite of growth, but a the perfect platform on which to achieve it.

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Do American Taxpayers Receive Dividends on Repaid TARP Funds?

Ben Arnon | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, TARP Repayments, TARP Money, Usaa, Federal Bailouts, U.S. Economy, U.S. Government, Economics, Money, Economy, Federal Government, Health Care Reform, Health Care, American Taxpayer, Business News
Ben Arnon

I diligently followed the TARP debate and happenings early on. However, at this point there have been so many versions, revisions, and debates about the TARP program that I have lost track.

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Happy Holidays from America's Banks

Michael Winship | Posted 12.19.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Congress, Americans for Financial Reform, Food Stamps, Center for Responsive Politics, Banks, Barack Obama, American Bankers Association, National Assistance Corporation of America, Business News
Michael Winship

Never mind Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope. It's the audacity of the banks that takes your breath away.

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Time for a Big Debt Deal With China

Matt Miller | Posted 12.17.2009 | World

Read More: U.S. China Trade, U.S. Economy, Chinese Debt, China, U.S. China Relations, China Debt, World News
Matt Miller

In an age of relative American decline, private placement of U.S. Treasury debt with the world's leading Communist power is an embarrassment whose time has come.

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2009's Top News Stories

Pamela Tom | Posted 12.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Global Economy, President Obama, Euna Lee, President Barack Obama, Green Energy, US Economy, Iran, Susan Boyle, Journalism, Unemployment, Gay Rights, Laura Ling, Tiger Woods, Iraq, North Korea, Afghanistan, Media News
Pamela Tom

If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.

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Poll Shows Mounting Toll Of Joblessness On Nation

nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO and MEGAN THEE | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Unemployed Workers, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Jobless Poll, Economy, Joblessness Poll, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Joblessness, Business News

More than half of the nation's unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives. An equal number have cut back on doctor's visits or m...

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A Tale of Two Obamas

Robert Kuttner | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Obama Centrist, Federal Deficit, President Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

This president, who could have been such an insurgent at a moment demanding insurgency, has been so utterly captured by the Wall Street elite, the health insurance industry elite, and the military elite.

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Two Common Sense Ways to Improve the Economy

Robert A. Iger | Posted 12.06.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Unemployment, Us-Visas, Online Piracy, Travel, US Economy, Internet Piracy, Obama Jobs Summit, Obama Stimulus Travel, Los Angeles News
Robert A. Iger

Curbing piracy and making it easier to visit our country are straightforward and immediate ways to spur long-term job growth. The decline in foreign visitors has probably cost the country around 245,000 jobs. Piracy has cost another 375,000.

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Analysis: Good News on Jobs, But Will it Last?

Lakshman Achuthan | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Trend Rate of Growth, Ben Bernanke, Unemployed, Unemployment, Recession, US Economy, Business News
Lakshman Achuthan

The "great moderation" of business cycles once extolled by many economists, Ben Bernanke, is history. The trend rate of growth is shriveling. In other words, business cycles are back with a vengeance.

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One Million Jobs

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Job Market, Job Losses, Unemployed, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Economic Crisis, Employment, Obama Administration, Jobs, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Millions of jobs, even if temporary, must be generated in short order, and the cost of these jobs must be kept low, in order to not increase the deficit unduly.

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Good Bye! The Reappointment Of Bernanke Is Too Much To Bear

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, US Economy, Ben Bernanke Reappointment, Ben Bernanke, The Black Swan, Business News
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What I am seeing and hearing on the news -- the reappointment of Bernanke -- is too hard for me to bear. I cannot believe that we, in the 21st century, can accept living in such a society.

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Liberalism Revived: Jacob Weisberg On "Obama's Brilliant First Year"

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, U.S. Economy, u.s. Foreign Policy, Economic Stimulus, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Media News
Michael J.W. Stickings

There is obviously a lot more Obama could have done, and perhaps should have done, but Jacob Weisberg is right that he has actually accomplished a great deal.

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Recovery And Debt: Squaring The Circle

Robert Kuttner | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Obama Unemployment, Unemployment, Obama Jobs Summit, Barack Obama, Jobs Summit, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

We do need to reduce the ratio of debt to GDP. But we need to do it after the economy is back in recovery. And we need to do it using the normal legislative process. And above all, we need to use progressive taxation rather than program cuts.

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Recession Sends Older Americans To Food Pantries

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Food Pantries, American Seniors, American Seniors Foodpantries, Older Americans Food Pantries, Economy, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Seniors, Recession, Business News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowdin...

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Direct Job Creation - Lessons from Argentina

Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Argentina Economy, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment, Argentina Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Pavlina R. Tcherneva

If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly.

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Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Obama Unemployment, Unemployment, Financial Recovery, Economy, Tim Geithner, President Obama, Katrina, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Hurricane Katrina, Recession, Barack Obama, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

There's a Category 5 storm about to make landfall, and the president and the officials in charge of preparing for the approaching disaster don't seem to be particularly worried. Sound familiar?

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Proposed Restrictions on Reproductive Rights Threaten Economic Growth

Nazca Fontes | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Infertility, Reproductive Tourism, Ivf, Reproductive Rights, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Assisted-Reproduction, Politics News
Nazca Fontes

Legislative efforts to restrict donor compensation and other restrictions on reproductive rights could have an impact on a billion-dollar contributor to the economy -- the infertility industry.

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Virtual Exhibit Economica Spurs Discussion of Women's Global Earning Potential

Emily Goligoski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: U.S. Economy, Global Economy, Economica, Earning Potential, The-International-Museum-of-Women, Economic Crisis, The International Museum of Women, Women Entrepreneurs, Working Women, Women and Politics, Women in Business, Healthcare, Impact News
Emily Goligoski

The International Museum of Women exhibit Economica manages to humanize the impact of policymakers' and institutional decisions by inviting women to tell their stories themselves.

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Innovation in the 21st Century: Keeping the US Competitive

Justin R. Rattner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Newsweek, Innovation, Survey, Technology, US Economy, Economy, Intel, Technology Innovation, Technology News
Justin R. Rattner

Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.

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Bernanke: Job Market Worst Since WWII, 'Moderate Growth' Expected Next Year

Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Economy, Obama Administration, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Obama Economy, Recession, Bernanke Speech, Business News

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Economic Club of New York, New York, New York November 16, 2009 On the Outlook for the Economy an...

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