Stimulus

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Original Technorati articles tagged “Stimulus”

• in Blogging
  Obama Advisers May Urge Second Stimulus
  Obama advisers may consider another "targeted and specific" stimulus package, despite recent assurances that a second stimulus was unnecessary.
  by bryanmckay / on Nov 2, 2009
• in Business
  Economic Stimulus Has Created 650,000 Jobs
  The Obama Administration stimulus package has created almost 650,000 new jobs in education and construction—but what about the rest of the us?
  by bryanmckay / on Oct 30, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Stimulus”

• Obama Intends To Yammer More With “Jobs Summit”

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 702
  Unemployment continues to go up. People are dropping off the unemployment rolls having been on them so long. Some people are just plain giving up and going with “funemplyment.” The Generational Theft Act has failed to create anything other than mostly temporary, blue collar jobs, so, what does Obama do? If you ...
  6 hours ago

• Bond protests U.S. support of “green jobs in China”

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 628
  WASHINGTON — Since the Wall Street Journal reported last month that a Chinese company would supply the turbines at a huge new wind farm in Texas, an alliance of Steelworkers and U.S. steel companies has protested mightily about taxpayers helping to fund jobs off-shore. A…
  7 hours ago

• America Follows Japan Off a Cliff

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  “It’s amazing; the US is doing everything that Japan did wrong,” said a friend yesterday. Let’s see, in the 1980s Japan’s corporate leaders thought they were going to take over the world. Investors thought so too. They expanded. They wheeled. They dealed. Prices shot up and they all thought they were ...
  7 hours ago

• Crist flip flops — and flips again — on his support for the federal stimulus.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 845
  In recent weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) has been flip flopping on whether he supported the federal stimulus bill. First he said he did, then he said he didn’t, and today he again said it was “pretty clear” that he did: “It’s getting harder every day and we know that it’s important that we pass this ...
  8 hours ago

• Survey Says Government Stimulus Has Failed

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  By yet another measure “the economic stimulus they foisted on us has been one big letdown.” A recent IBD/TIPP Poll shows that 66 percent of total surveyed respondents feel stimulus fell short of their expectations in creating jobs. It’s not groundbreaking news given that expectations were initially for about 8 ...
  8 hours ago

• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 553
  Quotable : “This is not about getting in the game, this is about winning. There will be a lot more losers than winners.” -Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, on Race to the Top awards Education Week (subscription required): Rules Set for $4 Billion ‘Race to Top’ Contest Notable: 22% : ...
  8 hours ago

• Foreclosure Numbers Engulf Home Sales

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  Even with the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit, which has just been extended and broadened in scope , foreclosure filings continue to outstrip home sales by nearly a factor of ten.  Recent data pegs foreclosure filings at above 300,000 for the eighth straight month .  By contrast, monthly home sales hobble ...
  8 hours ago

• Falling Wage Rates

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 540
  by Jerry O’Driscoll   In today’s Wall Street Journal , there is an article titled “Returning Workers Face Steep Pay Cuts.”  The article cites research by Kenneth Couch of the University of Connecticut that returning workers are taking on average a 40% pay cut from their old jobs.  This is first and ...
  8 hours ago

• Free Government Money: Broadband Edition

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  As part of the America Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, congress has set aside $7.2 billion for Obama’s national broadband plan. It should come as no surprise that numerous municipalities and telecommunications companies have applied for a piece of the pie. In light of the continuing climb in the unemployment ...
  8 hours ago

• Budget deficit rose to $176 billion in October, worse than predicted

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Economy In a disappointing start to the federal governments new fiscal year, the nation posted a higher-than-expected $176.4 billion budget deficit for October, the Treasury Department announced Thursday, as bank bailout and stimulus spending kept outlays at a high level, while the recession ...
  8 hours ago

• Boston Globe reports fraud and deception with Stimulus package. 787 Stimulus is a sham.

  
  Right Condition — Authority: 132
  You read the title correctly.  One of the most liberal and misguided papers in America reported, not opined, reported on fraud involving job creation with stimulus money.  Somebody pinch me, this cannot be happening.  Have the intoxicating effects of the Kool-Aid begun to wear off or did near bankruptcy jog some ...
  13 hours ago

• Stimulus job boost in Massachusetts exaggerated

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 133
  Captain Renault: Im shocked, shocked to find that the stimulus job creation report was fudged! From Boston.com ; 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 ...
  14 hours ago

• Reid Suggests "Jobs" Bill

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has floated the idea of putting together a new economic stimulus spending/tax cut bill in an effort to slow further deterioration in the jobs market. Roll Call : Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, ...
  14 hours ago

• Big welcome for Romney amid waning support for Democrat policies

  
  The US Report — Authority: 128
  Gov. Romney received a warm welcome in Jacksonville for Lincoln Day. [File photo from Stephen Butters/Republican Party of Duval County.] Commentary by Kay B. Day The Duval County Republican Party said that the Lincoln Day event on Nov. 9 was an “unparalleled success.” The annual fundraiser was themed, “An ...
  14 hours ago

• The Real Axis of Evil: Washington, the Fed, and Wall Street

  
  Big Government — Authority: 805
  As Washington extends its reach farther into our lives and limits our freedoms, the Fed destroys the value of the dollar and our savings, and Wall Street continues to make billions of dollars using taxpayer money without creating any sustainable growth for the economy, Americans should begin to ask ourselves who our ...
  14 hours ago

• Lies, Damn Lies And Government Statistics

  
  QandO — Authority: 141
  D ale brings you up to date on what we’re facing on the employment front below.  Meanwhile the dissembling about what government is doing continues.  The farce of “saved or created” jobs announced by the various government’s and agencies as a result of “stimulus” money continues to unravel with ...
  15 hours ago

• “Nobody Has Ever Seen This Market”

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 560
  “I’ve seen this market before” is a very commonly used phrase by Wall Street professionals to compare and contrast different periods. For example, when the Treasury yield curve is steepening or flattening , many market pros will project what will happen in different segments of the market based on ...
  16 hours ago

• Government Grant Programs Awarding Agencies

  
  Chillicious.com — Authority: 156
  There is no primary grant agency that administers the many grant programs available. Instead the national government uses 26 individual administrative organizations, each in charge of running a tiny portion of the grant programs. The rulings about the type of grant programs to offer are the responsibility of program ...
  16 hours ago

• You get what you vote for!

  
  Creating Orwellian World-view by Machiavellianism a blog by Alaphiah — Authority: 421
  Obama after YOU LIE shout-out The San Diego Union Tribune Editorial, Stimulus Dishonesty , decries the distortion of the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration regarding the performance of the $789 Billion dollar Stimulus package’s effectiveness. (see story) The Tribune cites several independent News sources, ...
  18 hours ago

• Here comes the unemployment tax increase

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Here comes that unemployment insurance tax hike we’ve all been waiting for . Under state law, the state’s unemployment trust fund is supposed to stand at 1 percent of taxable wages, or about $860 million. The fund has been depleted in the wake of high jobless claims. As a result, employers will have to pay ...
  18 hours ago

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