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Our Economy: Paul Krugman: The Destructive Center
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Monday, February 9, 2009. Paul Krugman: The Destructive Center. What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A proud centrist. For that is what the senators who ended up calling the tune on the stimulus bill just accomplished. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation.
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Our Economy: 10 Reasons for Progressives to Feel Reassured About the Debt Package
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Thursday, August 4, 2011. 10 Reasons for Progressives to Feel Reassured About the Debt Package. The debt ceiling is being raised. We will not have another debt ceiling battle in 6 months. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security remain untouched — which would not even have been the case in President Obama’s first proposal. 25 trillion in cuts, as opposed to Obama’s initial proposal of $4 trillion (to say nothing of Paul Ryan’s 6 trillion). Many of the cuts are in defense. The Bush tax cuts expire in 2013.
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Our Economy: The Great Solvent North
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009. The Great Solvent North. HAS the world turned upside down? Canadians found inspiration in Hamilton’s model, but not all Americans did. In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson opposed extending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, perceiving it as monopolistic. Money-lending functions were then assumed by local and state-chartered banks, eventually giving rise to the free-market, decentralized system that America has today. More from Billie Rene.
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Our Economy: U.S. Economy: Consumer Costs Fall Most in Six Decades
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009. US Economy: Consumer Costs Fall Most in Six Decades. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation. UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard and Poor’s. It’ll Be an All-Cuts Budget “Deal” (Just Like California). 10 Reasons for Progressives to Feel Reassured About the Debt Package. Excellent video on deregulation. THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Obama’s Ball and Chain.
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Our Economy: Excellent video on deregulation
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Excellent video on deregulation. Excellent video describing how deregulation caused the financial crisis we are experiencing. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation. UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard and Poor’s. It’ll Be an All-Cuts Budget “Deal” (Just Like California). 10 Reasons for Progressives to Feel Reassured About the Debt Package.
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Our Economy: PAUL KRUGMAN: The Joy of Sachs
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Friday, July 17, 2009. PAUL KRUGMAN: The Joy of Sachs. The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly profits — and it’s preparing to hand out huge bonuses, comparable to what it was paying before the crisis. What does this contrast tell us? More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary. On Financial Services Deregulation. UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know? Excellent video on deregulation.
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Our Economy: Devastating class warfare not good enough for House GOP
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Devastating class warfare not good enough for House GOP. Conservatives complain that the Speaker's debt ceiling plan is too namby-pamby. Robert Greenstein at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has been doing some invaluable budget number-crunching throughout the ongoing debt ceiling crisis. On Monday he released a "statement". On the new Boehner plan that includes by far the strongest rhetoric I've seen from him to date. The repeal of health reform's coverage expansions,.
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Our Economy: The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard & Poor’s
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Thursday, July 28, 2011. The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard and Poor’s. Standard and Poor’s didn’t exactly distinguish itself prior to Wall Street’s financial meltdown in 2007. Until the eve of the collapse it gave triple-A ratings to some of the Street’s riskiest packages of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. In other words, had Standard and Poor’s done its job, today’s budget deficit would be far smaller. More from Billie Rene. Notes - Political Commentary.
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Essays & Whatever: Teabagger's Computer Vocabulary
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Sunday, September 1, 2013. Backup - What you do when you run across a liberal in the woods. Bug – What you do to your Congressman at a town hall meeting. Byte - What your pit-bull did to your Barack Obama doll. Chip – The smart son who can load a magazine in 32 seconds. Terminal – Socialist Amtrak station. Crash - When you go to a Starbucks Coffee by mistake. Digital - Counting to nine on your fingers. Fax – Rush Limbaugh’s opinion. Hacker – Your wife after 26 years of smoking. Network – Fox News. Simple...
