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• The Fed Doesn’t Want Banks to Increase Lending

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 569
  Source: Washington’s Blog Tim Duy – Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Economics at the University of Oregon and the Director of the Oregon Economic Forum – noticed an amazing sentence in the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Fed Open Market Committee: As has already been ...
  11 hours ago

• Advisor Alert - November 27, 2009

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 143
  The following report is the advisor alert produced by US Global Investors , a comprehensive weekly alert providing SWOT analysis for all major market groups. You may listen to it in its entirety here while you work: Download audio file (55e283bf-ebd7-436b-06d2-245317d74b6c.mp3) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...
  14 hours ago

• Summoning Americas Creative Will

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 423
  One of the things the current health care debate has shown is the depth of denial regarding our countrys economic problems. Rather than understand last years near financial collapse as a clarion call to rethink our economy, health care has shown a near irrational commitment to the idea that Americas fiscal house ...
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• Put Marcy’s Ad on Olbermann & Maddow – Give States the Freedom to Choose Single-Payer

  
  Progressive Democrats of America Blog — Authority: 131
  Now that a filibuster in the Senate is no longer an issue, some kind of health care bill is likely to pass and be signed into law. The fight to protect the right ...
  2 days ago

• Black America’s Attachment To Barack Obama

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  Dennis Prager did his radio show today from Zambia. He notes that a new poll shows that only 19% of Americans believe Obama that healthcare reform won’t add to the federal budget deficit. "The man is so far left that only the left will support. Unions will support him because they get a great payoff and they’re ...
  3 days ago

• Will the Feds Cut Provincial Transfers to Balance the Books (Again)?

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 494
  As everybody who reads this blog knows,  then Finance Minister Paul Martin brought the federal budget back into balance in the mid 1990s by, in significant part,  slashing federal transfers to the provinces and eliminating automatic escalators in the new transfers he created. That cannot and will not be allowed to ...
  3 days ago

• How Much Will Escalation Cost?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 679
  The L.A. Times has a fascinating article about the difficulties in accounting for estimated costs in a troop surge in Afghanistan. The calculations so far have produced a sweeping range. The Pentagon publicly estimates it will cost $500,000 a year for every additional service member sent to the war zone. ...
  4 days ago

• Falling for Teasers and Not Squirreling Away Our Nuts

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  I like Ed Andrews’ New York Times article on how we’re running out of ways to cheaply finance our federal debt.  Ed explains: The White House estimates that the government will have to borrow about $3.5 trillion more over the next three years. On top of that, the Treasury has to refinance, or roll over, a ...
  4 days ago

• Bad News On The Debt

  
  King Politics — Authority: 137
  Ever wonder why politicians and economists spend so much time worrying about the debt, even as said politicians increase the debt? Well, the interest on the debt by 2019 could total $700 billion a year . Thats just the interest. Forget the principal. The federal government is no better (in this sense) than homeowners ...
  4 days ago

• America’s Debt Clock Measures Dollars, not Minutes

  
  Newsprism — Authority: 104
  The US national debt has now surpassed $12 trillion (that’s $12,000,000,000,000.00.) To watch our debt (along with dozens of related metrics) mount in real time, go to the non-partisan USDebtClock.org . As if the raw numbers weren’t bad enough, we also have to deal with  a wave of debt payments coming due , ...
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• Big Bang Bubble

  
  Liberty's Life Line — Authority: 122
  We have had several bubbles before, but if the Obama administration has their way, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”  Currently the budget for the federal government is $4 trillion dollars.  That’s right, your federal government will spend approximately (which means probably more) $4 trillion in one year.  Of ...
  4 days ago

• National Debt Hysteria?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 679
  In a front piece story in today’s NYT, Edmund Andrews warns that the bill is about to come due on the massive borrowing the federal government has engaged in. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and ...
  4 days ago

• The Economist Magazine on Why We Have to Be Biased Toward Tax Increases in the Short Term

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  The cover story in this week’s Economist magazine discusses “dealing with America’s fiscal hole.” The “hole” is described not as something we’ll have to dig ourselves out of in the far-off future , but something we’re already too far in now .  (The story quotes Bill Gale and Alan ...
  5 days ago

• Department of State Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 136
  Administration of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic and Consular Programs $9,036M Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance $1,815M Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs $633M Civilian Stabilization Initiative $323M Capital Investment Fund $160M Office of the Inspector General $100M Protection of Foreign Missions ...
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• Department of Labor Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 136
  Employment and Training Administration: * Program Administration $98M * Training and Employment Services $3,959M * Community Service Employment for Older Americans $575M * State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations $88M * Office of Job Corps $1,701M * Federal Unemployment Benefits and Allowances ...
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• Department of Justice Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 136
  General Administration Salaries and Expenses $178M Tactical Law Enforcement Wireless Communications $205M Justice Information Sharing Technology $124M Detention Trustee $1,439M Office of Inspector General $84M Administrative Review and Appeals $301M National Drug Intelligence Center $44M Legal Activities and U.S. ...
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• At Least 100 Reasons to Worry That Congress Won’t Follow Through on the Hard Choices in Health Care Reform

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  Hooray! Tonight we’re one step closer to getting a deficit-neutral health care reform bill that has at least some hope of “bending the health cost curve” in the future. Oh wait, maybe not… As David Broder worries about in his Sunday column in the Washington Post (emphasis added): I have been writing ...
  6 days ago

• Will Obama Make it Through His Term?

  
  PRO — Authority: 112
  Obama’s job approval rating falls below 50 percent Pluck any conscientious American from anywhere in the US, put them in the White House and they’ll perform better than Mr Obama. President Obama has shown NO Leadership qualities, NO management skills, NEAR Zero concern for ordinary Americans and TOTAL ...
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• Comparing Senate Democrats’ Health Care Reform Bill to HCR Bill Passed by House

  
  Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 - Conservative News & Politics — Authority: 134
  Late Wednesday night, the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the proposed piece of legislation: the gross price tag for the coverage provisions is $848 billion. It would cut the deficit by $130 billion if fully enacted, according to CBO estimates. The main financing mechanisms would be cuts to ...
  1 week ago

• US health reforms face biggest test yet in Senate

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 21 (DPA) Another month, another milestone: US President Barack Obama’s long struggle to enact far-reaching health reforms faces another hurdle Saturday in the US Senate.It is perhaps the most important vote to date, yet just another step in the hugely divisive process that has engulfed much of ...
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