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• Omnibus Appropriations Bill More and More Likely

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  A story in The Hill this morning relays an increasingly likely scenario in Congress: legislators will use an omnibus appropriations bill to finish spending work this year. The article cites the molasses-like speed at which the Senate has worked to pass its remaining appropriations bills. With the second stopgap ...
  6 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, ...
  9 hours ago

• Forex Daily Outlook – November 12th 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 433
  After remembrance day, the calendar is busy once again, with employment figures from the US and Australia standing out. Let’s see what awaiting us:A big drama was seen in Britain yesterday, with good employment figures helping the Pound, before Mervyn King sent it down. GBP/USD is back down at 1.6574. Today, no ...
  18 hours ago

• Peter Orszag on the Tough Specifics of Deficit Reduction

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 512
  The President’s budget director, Peter Orszag, was on NPR’s Morning Edition on Wednesday morning.  He talked about the really difficult fiscal policy dilemma the federal government faces right now–dealing with both an unusually severe recession and a worsening longer-term budget outlook (emphasis added): ...
  18 hours ago

• So How Could It All Get Worse?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  The Fort Hood shooting, the goverment and mass media denial that this was jihadi terrorism, while President Obama urges us not to rush to judgment, dithers over Afghanistan, declines to attend the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, panders to Iran, and astride an exploding federal budget and tanking ...
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• House-passed health care bill advances many of nonprofits’ priorities

  
  Minnesota Budget Bites — Authority: 415
  The health care bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 7 would extend health insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans. The bill represents a major step forward in addressing several key priorities of Minnesota’s nonprofits. The House bill passed by a vote of 220 to 215. ...
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• Choices for the Future

  
  Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 - Conservative News & Politics — Authority: 128
  You know youre in for a bout of grim reading when the international agency charged with worrying about how we power the planet starts off its fact sheet with a question like this: "Why is our current energy pathway unsustainable?" Thats the message from the International Energy Agency , which issued its World ...
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• Peter Orszag on the deficit

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  If you missed it, an interesting interview with Peter Orszag, the director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget . NPR’s Steve Inskeep asked him the size of the deficit, the pace of recovery, and how Orszag will “time” deficit reduction to the improvement in the economy. Listen to the ...
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• Why I Predict a Global Economic Depression by 2012 in My New Book

  
  Global Economic Crisis — Authority: 118
  Economics is a social science, not an exact science.  Theories on how a nation’s economy and financial system should function  proliferate the body politic, ranging from Reagonomics to Keynesian pump-priming. However, as the past year’s global economic crisis has demonstrated, dogmas and theories, such as market ...
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• Missing in Health Bills: Solutions for Rising Costs

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Health economists say it is impossible to know whether the bill would meet cost-cutting goals, and many are skeptical that they even come close.
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• So You Want to Reduce the Budget Deficit?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 512
  Have you ever thought you could be WAY more fiscally responsible than our politicians are?  Go ahead and test yourself on the Concord Coalition’s new online version of our “Principles and Priorities” exercise, now re-dubbed the “Federal Budget Challenge.” As was true with the old fashioned hard-copy ...
  2 days ago

• CBO Monthly Budget Review, October 2009

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review (MBR) for October. Its a look back at the good old days of Fiscal Year 2009, with all the spending, and borrowing and loss of revenue...wait, did I say "good old days?" Lets examine CBOs goodbye to the not-so-great fiscal year that ...
  3 days ago

• Rising Debt, Sinking Security

  
  Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 - Conservative News & Politics — Authority: 128
  It turns out that neither nuclear weapons nor terrorism may be the greatest threat to American prosperity and security. Instead, it may be something we hear very little about in the mainstream media: our burgeoning national debt. Runaway spending on entitlements, bailouts, and stimulus bills are driving the budget ...
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• Bernanke will you tell American people to whom Fed Res lent $2.2 trillion of their dollars?

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 151
  don’t want to be public about the fact that they received it.” He said businesses in his state were in trouble and needed loans, but were not permitted to borrow from the Fed. “Do you have to be a large, greedy, reckless financial institution to apply for this money?” he asked. Bernanke said the Fed’s ...
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• And Speaking of Honesty…

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 512
  In his Forbes column this week, Bruce Bartlett explains how to set up a deficit-reduction commission who can speak the real truth and thus come up with real solutions.  Bruce’s key recommendations (emphasis added): In my opinion, the commission should have no members of Congress at all among its members . ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  5 days ago

• Just how dangerous are stimulus-driven deficits in the long run?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Economy Most mainstream academic and government economists -- elites, we should note, who are generally well-protected from the vagaries of the real world -- are united in the view that massive federal deficits to fund stimulus programs are not just a good thing but a necessary thing. Economist J. ...
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• Forex Weekly Outlook – November 9-13 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 433
  After a very busy week, that finished with painful employment figures in the US, the markets will have more time to digest the news this week. European GDP figures, British and Australian employment figures and US Trade Balance will stand out this week. Let’s see the main events awaiting us this week.During the ...
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• Just (Billy Joel and) Me, Talking About “Honesty”

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 512
  I think this is one of the coolest radio interviews I’ve done (click here for the link to the podcast) –not because of anything new I said that I haven’t said a million times before, but because Marketplace’s Scott Jagow did such a great job of prompting me with the right questions and editor Paddy Hirsch ...
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• MCN/MCF conference addresses health care reform

  
  Minnesota Budget Bites — Authority: 415
  Jan Malcolm, former Minnesota Commissioner of Health, says fixing the federal health care system is more doable than people think. True, reform legislation is estimated to cost nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. But the federal government is expected to spend $35 trillion on health care in the next 10 years, ...
  6 days ago

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