Showing posts with label it's the jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label it's the jobs. Show all posts
July 15, 2012

Re- the Stalled Recovery,

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From Nation of Change : While the [National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), an organization that often acts as a front for larg...
June 23, 2012

The Results of Austerity

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How states that have expanded spending have done as compared to states that have cut back. More at The Atlantic .

The Results of "Trickle Down"

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" 1) Corporate profit margins just hit an all-time high. Companies are making more per dollar of sales than they ever have before. . ....
June 22, 2012

Retirement, Ha Ha!

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I have a 401(k) with a major investment company whose name starts with F, which I'll call "F Co." I just got an email from th...
May 23, 2012

News You Can Use

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Per the WSJ 's Market Watch , After adjusting for inflation, spending under Obama is falling at a 1.4% annual pace — the first decline i...
December 24, 2011

The Eurozone Crisis

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. . . is not about market "discipline," according to Dean Baker : The people who gave us the eurozone crisis are working around t...
November 29, 2011

Why the Economy Does Not Have to Be a Zero Sum Game

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Who's saying it does? I've heard the claim attributed to Occupiers, but I personally haven't seen or heard any Occupiers make i...
November 23, 2011

Jobs Americans Aren't Willing to Do

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(Thanks, Ben!) Don't miss the last segment starting ca. 5:30 min.
July 24, 2011

What the Fed HA$ Delivered On:

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. . . its intent – clear, for those who would see, in Oct., 2008 – that TARP funds would be used to bail out not only Goldman, but foreign ...
June 7, 2011

Opportunity Cost: What the US Gave Up for 10 Years of Tax Cuts

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" ThinkProgress, using data on various social spending projects from the National Priorities Project – which does these calculations fo...
December 1, 2010

Everything is NOT Ok

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Photo doc here .
October 25, 2010

Worried About the Economy?

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Vote Dem: Sources here . (Sources for stats: Wall Street Journal ; Wikipedia .)
September 6, 2010

$12.8 Trillion for Banks vs. . . . ?

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Bloomberg reporter Bob Ivry has confirmed, U.S. taxpayers didn't just fork out $700 billion for TARP; they're also on the hook for ...
September 2, 2010

Why the "Stimulus" Didn't Work as Well as Hoped

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Most experts without a horse in the race agree it did work, but not nearly as well as it might have, because most of the money went to the ...
July 16, 2010

A Few Recent Headlines Re- the Economy

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. . . that should have appeared prominently in your local corporate media, but mostly didn't: Republicans Confirm: $30 Billion for Unem...
July 2, 2010

More Re- the Decline of the Middle Class

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Great article at rationalrevolution . And if you haven't already seen it, don't miss Elizabeth Warren's presentation, here . UPD...
June 13, 2010

Legal and Other Factors in the Decline of Labor Unions

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Prof. Jack Getman's lecture explains a lot:
June 3, 2010

What Happened to the Middle Class?

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From "Zombie Nation," posted at MUTE , 2006-05-10 by Paul Helliwell : The term zombie entered the English language as a result of...
June 1, 2010

Re- ART WORK, a Dead-On Letter to MoMA

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from Hollis Frampton; see a more legible version of all five pages here .
December 4, 2009

IMHO, much of DU has been more or less hopelessly compromised by trolls,

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but there are still a few worthy threads. E.g.: 44. and if we could have had Medicare for all..... Look at all the real jobs that could com...