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• Rewarding a Catastrophe

  
  Fraudonomics — Authority: 125
  Rewarding a Catastrophe Bernanke and the Corruption of Washington Culture by Dean Baker: "The Senate Banking Committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke for another 4-year term. This is a remarkable event since it is hard to imagine how Bernanke could have performed worse ...
  2 days ago

• The Health Care Bill Sucks--and What to Do About It

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  Crossposted on Firedoglake The public option was always a fig leaf. Thus, its demise will not really change the fundamental nature of the health care bill, in my opinion. It merely pushes the bill a small step further down the road. Id argue that a more important issue is the funding, which is changed in the ...
  1 week ago

• When the time comes

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 123
  Timing is everything. Lately the theme here is public policy and how it gets made--or doesnt. Ive been bouncing off some of the research of political scientist John Kingdons very useful book Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies . Although this book was written in the 1980s about federal legislation, it rings ...
  1 week ago

• Sorry to be late with the latest panic report -- The Doom of Debt -- but its never too early or late to start panicking!

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 600
  "The Post could not be bothered to write about the housing bubble as the danger was mounting, only giving attention to the likes of Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, who told us everything was fine, or even better, presenting readers with the assessment of David Lereah, the chief economist of the National Realtors ...
  1 week ago

• The Unemployment Numbers Might Be A Good Sign-- But Sheila Bair Actually Wants to Take Some REAL Action

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 600
  Sheila Bair: Time for action! The Administration was jumping up and down holding its wiener this morning when it was announced that unemployment is now "only" 10% , down from 10.2% (11,000 job losses for the month). The great turnaround has come! Maybe. Or maybe there are a just lots more "discouraged workers" who ...
  3 weeks ago

• No Love for Bernanke

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Last night, Dave showed that the looming hold on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is no partisan matter, with Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-S.C.) and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) also supporting the procedural move by the liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). But that hardly completes ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Commission” is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  Truthout, December 1, 2009 Dean Baker Commission” Is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare The “experts” who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy are now telling us that we have to create a special commission so that they can cut Social Security and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Resurrect and Energize the Conservation Corps

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 794
  At the Jobs Summit coming up Thursday, a cacophony of ideas will compete for inclusion on the list of what the President ultimately decides to do. That’s good. The unemployment situation needs lots of ideas because there is no silver bullet. No one approach can accomplish everything.   Congress and two ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Fed Must Counteract Asset Bubbles

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 420
  From the folks at SAFER (The Economists Committee for Stable, Accountable, Fair, and Efficient Financial Reform), which is a project of the Political Economy Research Institute . Hat-tip to LF. The Federal Reserve Must Counteract Asset Bubbles Dean Baker, Jane DArista and Gerald Epstein Center for Economic ...
  4 weeks ago

• US debt a phantom menace

  
  mid coast views — Authority: 114
  Yesterday the New York Times reported that the United States is borrowing trillions of dollars under terms that seem "too good to be true" just as a "spending explosion" on benefits programs like Medicare and Social Security is set to begin. In a series titled "Payback Time: Debt Bomb," the Times details the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Changing The Jobs Debate with Dean Baker & John Nichols

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 133
  The Nations John Nichols , author of "Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy" calls the unemployment crisis a "social, economic and political threat," writing of the growing sense of urgency within an administration facing a purported recovery that hasnt extended ...
  5 weeks ago

• Odds and ends for 11/20

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 480
  Huge win for the good guys, by which I mean taxpayers: House Finance Committee overwhelmingly and with true bipartisan support votes to audit the Fed . Barney Frank, previously a supporter, voted against. He’s going to need a damn good explanation. Welcome to the 21st century, beehortches: Muslims want an ...
  5 weeks ago

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