Fall 2008

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• Boston Globe: Stimulus job boost in state exaggerated, review finds

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started. Read it all .
  7 hours ago

• Washington Post: Fed’s role makes its next move key

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The threats hanging over the central bank could compromise its independence, warn Fed watchers. Several crucial decisions are approaching, including how to continue phasing out its emergency efforts to support the economy. The Fed has already said it will wind down the purchases of mortgage securities in March after ...
  8 hours ago

• George Will: Debt is Destroying the Dollar

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The fiscal 2009 budget deficit, triple that of 2008, was 10 percent of GDP. Lawrence Lindsey says probable policies will produce deficits of 7 percent of GDP for a decade. Ronald Reagans worst deficit was 6 percent of GDP and for only one year. Lindsey -- a former member of the Federal Reserve board of governors and ...
  8 hours ago

• WSJ Front Page: Grim Milestone as Jobless Rate Tops 10%

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The unemployment rate last month soared above 10% for the first time since the early 1980s, a milestone likely to weigh on consumer confidence and stir new efforts in Washington to spur job creation. Some 558,000 people joined the ranks of the jobless in October, sending the rate to 10.2% and the tally of officially ...
  5 days ago

• Michigan warned 20% cut might be next

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Gov. Jennifer Granholm warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 already have dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates. The request from Granholm is a further blow to ...
  1 week ago

• David Broder: Trouble ahead for Democrats?

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Despite White House efforts to discount the importance of the loss of the only two governorships on the off-year ballot, especially in New Jersey, where Obama had campaigned heavily for embattled Gov. Jon Corzine, the implications were clear to other Democrats. Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, a leader of the ...
  1 week ago

• WSJ: Business Bankruptcy Filings Increased 7% in October

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Business bankruptcy filings jumped in October, reversing two consecutive months of declining commercial filings and indicating that bankruptcies could continue to rise as the economy struggles to stabilize.... "The margin for success is so thin that any financial hiccup" could cause a business to file for bankruptcy, ...
  1 week ago

• California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear. Technically, its not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next ...
  1 week ago

• Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and the potential for it to become an electoral liability for Democrats, the White House and Congressional leaders are weighing options for narrowing the gap, including a bipartisan commission that could force tax increases and spending cuts. But ...
  1 week ago

• Joseph Stiglitz: Death Cometh for the Greenback

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  For the past eight years, the dollar has increasingly become less revered. Its value has been volatile. As the rest of the world saw the United States struggling with a failing war and soaring budget deficits, many who had large dollar holdings began to reduce those reserves (or increase them less than they otherwise ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13. Foreclosures, layoffs, rising food and fuel prices and inadequate supplies of low-cost housing have stretched families to the extreme, and those pressures ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dsquared2: Bloody Mary Vernice Pump

  
  ShoeBlog — Authority: 472
  What can I say… These shoes are HOT! Dsquared2 ‘Bloody Mary’ Vernice pump $1040 $751.50 at Zappos.com / $750.90 at Endless.com (There’s also a knee-boot version and a sandal version of these - but they don’t make me swoon.) I can’t even tell you just how much looking at ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Local Paper Editorial—Wanted: A jobs recovery

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The inherent contradiction in the term "jobless recovery" continues to cast a shadow on overdue good economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial average closed above 10,000 Wednesday for the first time in more than a year. But the national unemployment rate of 9.8 percent in September was the highest in more than a ...
  3 weeks ago

• USA Today—Poll: In bad times, folks find ways to help

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  As the recession deepened, more Americans volunteered their time to churches and other religious charities. Almost four in 10 Americans say they volunteered at a church or other religious organization in the past 12 months, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. In September 2008, three in 10 had volunteered with a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Still on the Job, but at Half the Pay

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  In recent decades, layoffs were the standard procedure for shrinking labor costs. Reducing the wages of those who remained on the job was considered demoralizing and risky: the best workers would jump to another employer. But now pay cuts, sometimes the result of downgrades in rank or shortened workweeks, are ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Over the last three months, banks put 63 percent of their new cash into euros and yen -- not the greenbacks -- a nearly complete reversal of the dollars onetime dominance for reserves, according to Barclays Capital. The dollars share of new cash in the central banks was down to 37 percent -- compared with two-thirds a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Irwin Stelzer in the (London) Sunday Times: U.S. Economic clouds part but underlying problems remain

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Unfortunately, even if things are improving — and I prefer V for victory to W for worry — the fundamental cause of recent financial problems remains unaddressed. Low interest rates fuelled unsustainable debt. Those low rates were the result of China’s need to make money from the pile of dollars it earns from its ...
  4 weeks ago

• Notable and Quotable (I)

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Yet this might just be where the president’s luck runs out. For precisely the power of his own party in Congress could prove to be a source of weakness rather than strength. On my most recent visit to Washington, I could not help being struck by the shift that has occurred from the imperial presidency of the Bush ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Painfully Funny Tom Toles Cartoon

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  Check it out .
  5 weeks ago

• Jobs Report Highlights Uncertainty of U.S. Recovery

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  The American economy shed another 263,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, reinforcing a broad assumption that many more months of lean times lie ahead for working people. The latest snapshot of the nation’s job market released by the Labor Department on Friday amplified the notion ...
  5 weeks ago

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