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Recession Is Dangerously Good for the Arms Business

Nathan Schneider | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Cars, Military, War on Terror, Arms-Trade, Industry, Economic Crisis, Business News
Nathan Schneider

The more wages (and executive bonuses) come to hinge on the war business, the more war will seem like reasonable economic policy, and the less reluctance business leaders will have to wage it.

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Labor Losses Loom Larger, Not Smaller

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Losses, U.S. Economy, Unemployment, Economy, Recession, Stock Market, Business News
Dan Dorfman

There's an old Wall Street saying: Buy on the bad news! That's exactly what fired-up investors did on Friday.

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Two Deficit Questions for Budgeting Expert Linda Bilmes

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Kennedy School of Government, Deficit, U.S. Economy, Harvard, Linda Bilmes, Budget, Business News
Pablo Manriquez

Any reduction in consumer spending, whether spurned by a tax increase or not, that causes a drop in our demand for Chinese products decreases China's incentive to lend to us except at higher interest rates.

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4 Problems That Could Sink America's Economy: Rick Newman

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Work Week, U.S Economy, Rick Neman, Health Care, Work Ethic, Business News

If we're lucky, the recession is winding down, and life will start to feel a bit more comfortable before long. But that doesn't mean things will go ba...

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Emotional Health In Down Times: 5 Steps To Staying Positive And Productive

Jack Canfield | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Esteem, Wellness, Emotional Health, Emotional Freedom, Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Positive Thinking, Positivity, Economy, Self-Confidence, U.S. Economy, Recession, Living News
Jack Canfield

We have to remember that how successful you are and how peaceful or distressed you are is a result of what you focus your attention on.

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Bernanke Gets Reappointed; Is Kinda Bummed

Duncan Quirk | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: U.S. Economy, Comics, Economy, Bernanke, Economic Crisis, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, Comedy, Comedy News
Duncan Quirk

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The Twillion Dollar Economy

Tom Hayes | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Social Media, Twittering, Twitter, Tom Hayes, Personal Economy, Facebook, Tweets, Silicon Valley, Business News
Tom Hayes

Rather than attempting to get their arms around the enormity of global economic dislocations, consumers are choosing instead to shrink the world down to a manageable size, to forge small order from the exposed raw nerve endings of a hostile macro-economy.

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National Association of Manufacturers Blasts ... American Manufacturing?

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Free Trade, Cato Institute, Trade, Libertarians, National Association of Manufacturers, US Economy, Us Tax System, Us-Manufacturing, Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, Gross Domestic Product, American Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News
Dave Johnson

Why is America's National Association of Manufacturers echoing the Cato Institute's views against American manufacturing? Has this organization lost its way? Do NAM members know about this?

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The Recession Is Over -- and It Isn't

Zachary Karabell | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, U.S. Economy, Gdp, Retail Sales, Recession, Productivity, Business News
Zachary Karabell

With Wall Street -- and the Federal Reserve -- in a rush to declare the recession over, economic data indicates that the simple binary recession/no recession framework obscures more than it reveals.

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Economic Consequences of Health Care Reform

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, U.S. Economy, Economy, Economic Crisis, Health Care Reform, Tax Cuts, Economic Growth, Health Care, Business News
Stephen Herrington

What difference is there to the economy if consumers spend twice as much as other industrial nations on health care? That is the unanswered question of the health care debate.

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Obama White House Doesn't Understand American Interest vs. Corporate Interest

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Corporate Real Estate, Small Business Administration, Bank Recapitalization, George Soros, Citibank, Timothy Geithner, US Economy, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The Obama administration's approach to trying to move the economy forward demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding about how corporate behavior works.

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Zorro Rides Again, Maybe Into A Ditch

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Bull Market, Economic Recovery, Stock Market, Recession, Bear Market, Economic Crisis, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Verne Kabbel is a super contrary indicator. He has periodically e-mailed me over the past five years and as a forecaster on the direction of the market, he's infallible; I've never known the man to be right.

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Dark Clouds Lurk Behind The Silver Lining Of Recovery Data

Washington Post | Annys Shin | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobless, Jobs, US Economy, US Recession, Economy, Business News

The pile of economic data indicating that the worst of the recession is over just keeps growing. In the past few weeks, the government has reported th...

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Economy May Be Improving, But Jobs Are Slow To Come

AP | STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, US Economy, Recession, Economy, Jobs, Business News

WASHINGTON — Employers who have cut jobs over the past year are in no hurry to start hiring again just because the recession is tapering off. F...

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Ailing States Face Bleak Outlook For Next Fiscal Year

Washington Post | Keith B. Richburg and Ashley Surdin | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business

Read More: State Budgets, US Economy, State Funds, States, Economy, Recession, Stimulus Funds, Business News

As states across the country grapple with the worst economy in decades, most have cut services, forced workers to take unpaid days off, shut offices s...

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The Health Care Bubble: The Status Quo Is Unsustainable

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Us Economic Crisis, U.S. Economy, Housing Bust, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Health Insurance, Politics News
Louise Marie Roth

Defenders of the status quo seem unable to see the big health insurance bubble for what it is: an unsustainable, out-of-control behemoth headed for a huge collision.

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It's All About Jobs!

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Job Losses, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Economy, Manufacturing, Jobs, Recession, Barack Obama, Business News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

While President Obama has spoken forcefully about laying a new foundation for the economy, we believe that the administration still needs to address two glaring shortcomings in its economic program.

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Are the U.S. Government's Statistics on the Economy to Be Trusted?

Sheldon Filger | Posted 09.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Market Ticker, Commerce Department, GDP Report, u.s. Government Statistics, Karl Denninger, Economic Crisis, Labor Department, Q2 GDP Report, U.S. Economy, Business News
Sheldon Filger

The IRS doesn't consider credit to be income, or else it would tax us on all our debts. However, in the case of the U.S. government measuring GDP, the opposite logic applies.

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Three More: Now Half Of Bank Of America's Directors Have Quit

McClatchy | Christina Rexrode | Posted 09.01.2009 | Business

Read More: William Barnet, Economic Downturn, John Collins, Bank of America Corp., Bank of America, Econimic Crash, Ken Lewis, Goverment Regulators, The Fed, Stimulus, Gary Countryman, U.S. Economy, Recession, Business News

The shake-up in Bank of America Corp.'s boardroom, apparently orchestrated by the hand of government regulators, continued Friday evening, when the ba...

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Bernanke: Jobless Rate To Stay High Even In Recovery

Reuters | Posted 08.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Losses, Jobs, Ben Bernanke, US Economy, Jobless Rate, Economy, Business News

The U.S. jobless rate is likely to stay high even once the nation exits recession some time in the next few months, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Berna...

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Needed Medicine: A Dose of Inflation?

Jodie Allen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, U.S. Economy, Ben Bernanke, China, Inflation, Lawrence Summers, Business News
Jodie Allen

it's worth asking if a carefully monitored dose of inflation, might be the fastest -- and maybe only -- way to spring America free of its debtor's shackles.

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The Obama Rally Continues

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Obama Economy, U.S. Economy, Markets, Stock Market, Market Rally, Business News
Hale

The right wing's favorite barometer was the stock market until the markets started to rally in March.

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CNN: Don't reappoint Ben Bernanke "The Tortoise"

Jul. 22, 2009 | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Fed Chairman, Recession, U.S. Economy, Business News

Speculation that Ben Bernanke might very well be appointed for a second-term as Federal Reserve Chairman when his term expires in January 2010 has to ...

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CBO Is Wrong About Health Care Costs

Paul A. London | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Health Care Reform, Economics, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Paul A. London

Health insurance exchanges and computerized records will increase competition in health care and lower costs. That is what happened in other American industries when competition increased, and it will happen in health care.

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Hey Republicans, Can You Answer These Questions Truthfully About the "Obama Economy?"

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Obama Budget, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It's abundantly clear that President Obama's stewardship of the economy has resulted in tremendous improvement from the near-abyss the nation fell into last Fall at the end of Bush's presidency.

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