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• The reasons why fiscal stimulus may not work.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Credit financed the malinvestments and when you liquidate them in order to release capital banks must recognize their losses, which means they must take back from the economy the same amount of money they put into the economy with the original loan. If banks lack sufficient profits to extinguish loan losses then they ...
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• Hike In Long-Term Care Benefits Is Really Just Low-CLASS Trickery

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The extent of smoke and mirrors in both the House and Senate health care bills is frightening. Much mischief is easily concealed in each 2,000-plus-page bill. One part of the health reform bills that has not garnered much attention is Congress expansion into long-term care. Just a few months ago, this act alone would ...
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• Rettig not being honest with voters?

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 437
  According to an article run in the Press-Citizen , Janelle Rettig is touting herself as a fiscal conservative.    Rettig calling herself a budgetary watchdog is a very misleading claim for her to make, but despite her record thats exactly what she tried to do in a story about supervisor candidates.  Perhaps ...
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• Blackwater/Xe, the Company You Cant Get Rid of

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Yesterday, Justin Elliot at Talking Points Memo published an interesting piece on the never-ending saga that is the governments relationship with the company formerly known as Blackwater. Despite the scandals , investigations and indictments that have recently plagued Xe – and the resultant loss of a ...
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• Oh. My. Gawd.

  
  Weekend Pundit — Authority: 433
  Washington Post editorial, " The Coming Debt Panic ": Consider: In the space of a single fiscal year, 2009, the debt soaredfrom 41 percent of the gross domestic product to 53 percent. By way ofcomparison, the average for the past half-century has been 37 percent.This sum, which does not include what the government ...
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• Cintas 2Q down 20 percent, shares fall (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Cintas Corp. said Tuesday that its fiscal second-quarter profit dropped 20 percent as the nations high unemployment rate reduced demand for its uniforms and other supplies.
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• Conducting Monetary Policy when Interest Rates Are Near Zero: Will it Work?

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 664
  I have been more skeptical than most about the ability of quantitative easing to stimulate output and employment, so I thought Id counter that with this explanation of how QE works, what might go wrong, and some of the evidence in its favor. [My doubts come on two fronts. The first is the ability of QE to affect ...
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• HAMPs purpose isnt to save peoples homes

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 565
  If you listened to Obama Administration and the MSM you would have thought that the Making Homes Affordable program was designed to help people stay in their homes. You would have been mistaken . Of the nearly 760,000 modifications that have been enrolled in three-month trial plans, less than 32,000 have ...
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• A Little Holiday Cheer: PJTV’s Crowder Examines Detroit Blight Up Close

  
  Mount Virtus — Authority: 500
  Three days ’till Christmas, this will give you some holiday cheer. PJTV’s Steven Crowder takes an up close & personal look at Detroit, the once proud Motor City a mere hollow shell of what it once was ( H/T Red State ). The recent Clint Eastwood flick Gran Torino gave you a glimpse of what Detroit has ...
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• Important News - Dec. 22

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Rewarding Failure At The Fed The Senate finance committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Bernanke for another term. This is remarkable. But, in Washington no one is ever held accountable for their performance. It is the 15 million unemployed that go without work, not Bernanke. Instead, many of the senators praise ...
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  LATICONOMICS — Authority: 530
  Dollar Falls as U.S. GDP Report Curbs Gains in Global Stocks By David Merritt and Chris Nagi ...
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• 2010 Economic Outlook: From Exit to Exit

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  This post is a guest contribution by Joachim Fels* of Morgan Stanley . This year was all about the exit from the Great Recession - and, as we had expected at the start of the year, it worked courtesy of massive global policy stimulus. Next year will be all about the exit from super-expansionary monetary policy - we ...
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• Change Nobody Believes In: A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve

  
  The Saloon dot net — Authority: 126
  And tidings of comfort and joy from Harry Reid too. The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff ObamaCare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline. Barring some extraordinary reversal, it now ...
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• Jobless Middle-Class New Yorkers Struggle to Get By

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  High unemployment is spreading in New York City beyond the poorest neighborhoods to once-secure middle-class enclaves, where some residents are falling behind on rent and mortgage payments. Among the hardest-hit spots are the northern Bronx and southeastern Queens. Both areas have seen unemployment double since the ...
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• Council confirms latest offer of extended tick for Mid Argyll Pool

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Read all of the articles we’ve published on this page to get the context of this issue - whichis not going to go away.There is embedded community determination to bring the Council to an acceptance of it just responsibilities in financial support for the community-owned Mid Argyll Swimming Pool.The Council has just ...
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• Govt unlikely to meet FY10 indirect tax target – fin secy (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters - The government is unlikely to meet the indirect tax receipt target for the current fiscal year that ends in March 2010, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said on Tuesday.
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• BoEs Adam Posen says fiscal,monetary policy working

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The Bank of Englands Adam Posen was quoted on Tuesday as saying Britains fiscal and monetary policies were a success, but that it was working on a "Plan B" in case its quantitative easing fell flat.
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• Consumers to start year on sober note

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Berlin, Dec 22 (DPA) German consumers are entering the new year in a sober mood, with a key survey released Tuesday expected to show a fall in confidence among households in Europe’s biggest economy.Despite a buoyant end to the Christmas shopping season, analysts predict the Nuremberg-based GfK marketing group will ...
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• Lucky That Longshoremen Get Tan Naturally

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 465
  …otherwise, Senator Reid’s “manager’s amendment” to the health care reform bill would be a “wash” for them. A snow-day CQ story by Richard Rubin exposed the sillier side of how a health care reform bill is made (emphasis added): The amendment also would replace a proposed 5 percent excise tax on ...
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