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• Treasury Projects Smaller Losses for TARP

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff The word "billions" is becoming nearly meaningless these days. It shouldnt, but its thrown around so often and so freely, its become the new "millions". And the number is so huge that its nearly incomprehensible. Additionally, the word "trillions" has made its way into daily convos lately. Now ...
  20 hours ago

• ABC NEWS–World News with Charles Gibson (reports stimulus a huge success)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Gibson:"The White House has been under considerable scrutiny regarding the number of jobs created by the 727 B dollar economic stimulus program. Reports from the administration and congress have provided only rough estimates. So we asked Chris B… if he could find evidence to what the program had paid off. “ Plays ...
  1 day ago

• Should Public-Sector Jobs Come First?

  
  Room for Debate — Authority: 678
  The costs and benefits of a W.P.A.-style program for todays jobless.
  1 day ago

• OMG. Call the Press. The Stimulus IS Working.

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  Right wingers have been touting for months that the $787 billion stimulus bill that was passed withing days of the President taking office hasnt worked.Well, guess what, theyre wrong.This report by ABC News has some doubters that have changed their minds and are now convinced the President and the Democratic Congress ...
  1 day ago

• Stimulus bill hasn’t created jobs? Says who?

  
  Applesauce — Authority: 145
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2VrcExdIDM
  1 day ago

• Some thoughts on Obama’s war speech

  
  Sharp Right Turn — Authority: 119
  I didn’t watch Obama blabber on about troops and “getting out” of Afghanistan last Tuesday night….My stomach couldn’t bear listening to the CIC (Campaigner-In-Chief)….Heck, I can’t blame the cadets for falling asleep, either .  But I have read the transcript, some clips, and many evaluations of the ...
  2 days ago

• Emeryville’s Amyris gets $25m recovery grant

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 430
  Emeryville-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc. will get a $25 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a pilot plant producing renewable fuel – a diesel substitute – by fermenting sweet sorghum . The Energy Department doled out $564 million yesterday to 19 such bio-refinery projects ...
  2 days ago

• Republicans unveil Jobs! plan ahead of Presidents announcement next week

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 557
  President Obama plans to unveil his jobs creation plan next week, and Republicans are scrambling to beat him to the punch with some plans of... read more
  2 days ago

• Morning Bell: The Definition of Economic Insanity

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In January 2008, the United States economy employed 138.1 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 4.9%. But the powers in Washington thought deficit spending could boost a slowing economy, so Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) passed and President George Bush signed a $168 billion economic stimulus bill made up of ...
  3 days ago

• Obama answers the wake-up call on jobs

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 123
  Some encouraging news via the Washington Post today: President Obama is likely to endorse using a portion of the government’s $700 billion financial bailout for a new jobs creation program during a speech about the economy next week, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday morning. “The ...
  3 days ago

• Joblessness is slowing but looks Longlasting

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 616
  I was pouring over the jobless numbers this morning with my students. The overall numbers suggest that we’re no longer hemorrhaging jobs and that some employers maybe considering some hiring. There is one number in there that I found really disturbing. This is what I read this morning at MarketWatch which is ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  3 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  3 days ago

• Student lightbulb for Obama: use stimulants to stimulate economy

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 674
  A student in Pennsylvania offered President Barack Obama a way to boost the economy that probably hasn’t been on the table at the White House. “Mr. Obama, I really appreciate how you’re trying to stimulate the economy to help this country out,” the second-year student began in addressing the president on ...
  3 days ago

• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
  3 days ago

• Slow Motion Depression

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 617
  Early this week, the world’s largest central bank, the Federal Reserve, announced plans to exit its monetary stimulus efforts. It unveiled a new tool – reverse repos – to help speed the work. The term, “unintended consequences” was probably invented to describe such tools. Give the feds a saw and they will ...
  3 days ago

• The Unemployment Game Show: Are You Really Unemployed?

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  The government is telling us that the economic stimulus is working and the recession is over. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the unemployment numbers.
  3 days ago

• What they’re saying about today’s job numbers

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 430
  Democrats are pleased by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ announcement this morning that 11,000 jobs were lost in November – in the prior 3 months, payroll job losses had averaged 135,000 a month – and the unemployment rate fell to 10 percent (down from 10.2 percent in October), the best monthly jobs ...
  3 days ago

• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
  3 days ago

• History needs a stimulus...

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 415
  The "Great Recession" continues to take its toll on the nations economy , and the field of public history has been hit particularly hard. Heres a roundup of recent cuts in funding for state historical programs and services: Maryland - The Baltimore Sun reports that a $670,000 budget shortfall has forced the ...
  3 days ago

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