I hope this will help the administration back away from this misguided effort to focus on deficit...
Category - Economy
Suck it, Banks
The president is going after the banks in other ways besides new regulations. Specifically, he...
Dodging a Bullet
They had planned on focusing on the deficit, but that would've been very bad. For now, it looks...
Stimulus Saved Millions from Poverty
A study by the Center on Budget Policy Priorities on the stimulus: The Center’s analysis, which...
Support Community Banks
This is just awesome:
More Thoughts on The Taibbi Article
I've been thinking about this a lot and have drawn the following conclusions (so far). -- While...
Friday Night Fights
American Prospect's Tim Fernholz versus Matt Taibbi. Benen summarizes: Matt Taibbi trashes...
Americans Want More Spending
The conservadems and the Washington media will ignore this. Americans want their government to...
Say It With Me: The Jobs Bill Is Too Small
Only $70 billion? Really? Robert Reich: We don't know exactly how much the President is proposing...
The Jobs Bill
It'll all depend on how much spending is in the package, but this is a good start: WASHINGTON —...
On Track From Depression to Job Growth
While we aren't quite feeling it yet, it's entirely possible that this month or next month will...
President Sides with Jobs over Deficit
President Obama remembers 1937: President Barack Obama on Thursday disputed the notion that he is...
Excellent News for McCain
The economy is improving and the stimulus is working: The Labor Department reported Friday that the...
The Stimulus Is Working
Suck it, Republicans: Between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs were created or saved through September...
Super Stupid
Fox News thinks President Obama traveled back in time using his Muslim-Hitler-Commie Flux Capacitor...
Ignore the Republicans On This
The administration and the Democrats are moving closer to passing a new jobs bill. Reporting from...
Deficit Shmeficit, Part 2
Paul Krugman: There’s something disturbingly familiar about the current deficit hysteria. There’s...
Deficit Shmeficit
I think if you were to ask anyone in a non-polling setting whether they'd rather see job creation...
1937
Apparently the unemployment rate has breeched 10 percent. So it's probably not the time to be...
More Reality with a Pro-Obama Bias
Wall Street Journal headline: Stimulus Fueled Much of Expansion Why is the Wall Street Journal in...