Tag: economy
member name: The Militant Moderate
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July 06, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
President Obama’s approval ratings continue to decline. I attribute this phenomenon largely to the waning support of two very different groups; moderates and the Democratic Party’s left . . .
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April 17, 2008 11:46 AM EDT --
I was surprised that George Stephanopoulos, a member of the Clinton Administration, was one of the questioners.
Both candidates said they would not raise taxes on families making less than $200,000 . . .
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May 18, 2008 10:57 AM EDT --
NOTE (2/10/2009) This post, from last May, is a little embarrassing, because I was obviously wrong. I find it interesting that economists can't tell us precisely when when we have entered or . . .
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September 29, 2008 06:06 PM EDT --
She knew that the agreement was hanging by its fingernails. The Republican leadership had just enough votes. So she makes a highly partisan speech just before the vote, pissing off enough . . .
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March 28, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
Under the Obama Budget, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the US deficit will be $1.8 trillion in 2009 (4 times the highest deficit under the Bush administration), decline to $658 billion . . .
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June 12, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
Why do so many people on Gather immediately resort to name calling? I have received it from both the left and the right. (I am proud of the fact that I can piss off both sides.) . . .
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October 03, 2009 09:26 AM EDT --
Unemployment is now 9.8%.*
During the Bush administration Democrats talked about jobless recoveries and reminded us that the official unemployment rate did not reflect those who were working . . .
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October 13, 2009 07:45 AM EDT --
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April 05, 2008 09:24 AM EDT --
Friday morning Gene and I got into one of our intense desultory discussions about, among other things, Social Security. I was arguing that the last time Social Security was an issue most Democrats said . . .
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May 20, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
For some time I have been puzzling over the relationship between tax rates and federal revenue. I hope to publish more on this later. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal * just published a opinion . . .
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June 27, 2008 08:50 PM EDT --
I have always been fascinated with the use of numbers in political arguments. It is possible to state essentially the same fact, but the numbers you use to express it make a world of difference. A recent . . .
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April 28, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
when people
who are on
Social Security,
Medicare
and often
Veteran’s Benefits
complain about socialism.
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July 04, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Barney Frank is at it again with the “TARP for Main Street Act of 2009”
According to the Washington Examiner this bill would:
take $1 billion "from dividends paid by financial . . .
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July 30, 2009 09:37 PM EDT --
Government to suspend 'cash for clunkers'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99P2U9G1&show_article=1
Like maybe they didn't think this through before they did it.
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October 12, 2009 12:09 PM EDT --
This may be good news if you are an exporter, but for the rest of us, probably not.
From Bloomberg
"Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and . . .
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October 13, 2009 07:16 PM EDT --
According to Robert Reich
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April 28, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
From Mother Goose and Grimm.
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June 18, 2009 09:41 AM EDT --
Two polls reported today, one from the Wall Street Journal/NBC and the other from the New York Times/CBS show strikingly similar results. Americans are worried about the deficit and President Obama's . . .
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July 02, 2009 09:14 PM EDT --
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee about half of all US home mortgages and were squarely in the middle of the mortgage meltdown. In the last two years they have lost more than $150 billion. . . .
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August 25, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
Just released from Congressional Budget Office
http://cbo.gov/
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