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Obama gets Nobel Peace prize and turns around and escalates an unnecessary occupation of Afghanistan.
Now Bernanke is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year after caving to Wall Street investment banks and AIG by bailing them out [...]
Last Thursday night, I was having dinner with Dave (who blogs here on occasion). We were discussing one of my least favorite topics—the economy. During our conversation, I predicted that net jobs would go positive in February by the BLS analysis. Essentially, I am predicting that this graph
This move on his part makes some sense out of his erratic behavior of late.
So who is going to run to replace him? The Republicans are ecstatic. Unless the Democratic Congress can fix the economy and health care very quickly, the gains seen in 2006 and 2008 will [...]
...will be good for business, says Krugman.
The truth is that conservatives who predict economic doom if we try to fight climate change are betraying their own principles. They claim to believe that capitalism is infinitely adaptable, that the magic of the marketplace can deal with any problem. But for [...]
Republicans rooting for the failure of the Obama administration will be disappointed by today’s unexpected jobs report that showed unemployment falling from 10.2% to 10%, while the U.S. economy lost only 11,000 jobs in November.
Not a stellar day for Mark Griswold.
Update [Darryl]: From the Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]
Clicks are the new currency in an Internet economy. And that's never been truer than in the case of a charitable promotion by Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union that climaxed last Friday.
Seattle Metropolitan pledged to give $5,000 to a worthy nonprofit—whichever of seven finalists rec... [...]
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Speaks entirely for itself.