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EU Lisbon jobs open thread

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:46 +0000

It’s now clear that the Thierry Henry assist on the William Gallas goal last night is going to generate more commentary and interest than tonight’s filling of the new EU jobs (Council President, High Rep. for Foreign Policy, and Secretary General of the Council), but nonetheless, we ...

Edwardhugh posted 5 days ago from fistfulofeuros.net

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Jobs Saved or Created in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:54:06 +0000

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending . At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There's one problem , ...

Division of Labour found this 8 days ago on abcnews.go.com

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Pfizer and 1,400 Jobs to Leave New London, Connecticut

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:46:06 +0000

Susette Kelo's house, a landmark of sorts, was moved from the Fort Trumbull neighborhood that was seized by New London. Ms. Kelo was the losing plaintiff in a 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision.

Marginal Revolution found this 11 days ago on nytimes.com

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Steve Randy Waldman on Financial Regulation

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000

I would like to strongly recommend Steve Randy Waldman’s recent post on “ Discretion and Financial Regulation .” He begins like this: “An enduring truth about financial regulation is this: Given the discretion to do so, financial regulators will always do the wrong ...

jamesykwak posted 8 days ago from baselinescenario.com

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Jobs saved and counterfactuals

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:25:05 +0000

Krugman and DeLong have been attacking Mankiw and Meltzer for mocking the “jobs saved” metric of the Obama Administration. Here is Krugman: Brad DeLong catches Allan Meltzer claiming that there’s something nonsensical about the Obama administration making estimates of jobs ...

Cafe Hayek found this 13 days ago on cafehayek.com

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Senator Reid tees up 2010 jobs bill

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:54:00 +0000

Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleagues Tuesday. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told The Hill that Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement about a new jobs bill at the Senate Democrats’ weekly ...

Breaking News: CBS News found this 13 days ago on thehill.com

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Counting the Jobs Produced by the Stimulus

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:04:01 +0000

HTML clipboard Gary Burtless argues that the job creation numbers the administration issued underestimate the true size of the impact: Counting the Jobs Produced by the Stimulus, by Gary Burtless, Brookings : When the stimulus package was enacted last winter, the Administration said its ...

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 13 days ago on economistsview.typepad.com

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States May Cut 900,000 Jobs Without More U.S. Aid, Think Tank Says

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:28:00 +0000

State and local governments in the U.S. may be forced to cut 900,000 jobs next year without additional help from the federal government, according to a report released by a prominent liberal think tank Wednesday. To prevent state budget cuts from imperiling an economy just beginning to recover, ...

EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty found this 13 days ago on blogs.wsj.com

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To Zell, the Commercial Real Estate Crisis Is a Myth

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:47:11 +0000

Is the pending commercial real estate crisis everyone seems to be afraid of nothing but a myth? Sam Zell thinks so.

The Powell Perspective found this 12 days ago on dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

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75,343 Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the Stimulus

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:07 +0000

View Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the Stimulus in a larger map More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were "created or saved" by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the ...

Cato @ Liberty found this 8 days ago on washingtonexaminer.com

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Microsoft's Bill Gates Praises Apple's Steve Jobs For 'Saving the Company'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:42:21 +0000

Microsoft's Bill Gates had some words of praise today for Steve Jobs, the CEO of arch-rival Apple, despite the blistering "Mac and PC" television ads that sharply, and humorously, criticize the new Windows 7 operating system. Here's another highlight from today's taping of CNBC's Warren ...

Fat Pitch Financials found this 9 days ago on valueinvestingnews.com

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Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Time for a New ‘New Deal’ Jobs Program

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:54:32 +0000

In the wake of the highest unemployment rate in 25 years, we asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. Randall Wray argues that the federal government should ensure a job ...

naked capitalism found this 12 days ago on newdeal20.org

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AIG Consumer Lender Cuts 300 Jobs, Shuts 25 Branches

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:32:52 +0000

"American International Group Inc.’s consumer lender said it eliminated about 300 jobs and shut 25 branches in the third quarter after the company lost access to its usual sources of funding."

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Obama has lost his way on jobs

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:46:16 +0000

The past week brought news of US double-digit unemployment and the Federal Reserve’s decision to maintain near-zero interest rates . Both pieces of news expose the inadequacy of US economic policymaking. The Obama administration’s stimulus policies are not well-targeted. The Republican ...

FT Alphaville found this 13 days ago on ft.com

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Bernanke's Outlook For Recovery and What It Means For Jobs

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:05:00 +0000

Earlier today, At the Economic Club of New York, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his Outlook for the Economy and Policy . The speech contains much self-serving claptrap about how Federal Reserve policy save the day. Nowhere has the Fed admitted its role in creating the mess. Bernanke thinks ...

Minyanville found this 7 days ago on globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

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Nationwide Unemployment County By County (Time Lapse '06-'09)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:45:45 +0000

Click the image to see the unproductive scourge of recessionary unemployment come sharply into focus, county by county (time-lapse chart runs 30 seconds). As far as we can tell, the figures are based on the BLS U3 measurement and thus don't show the true nature of job ...

The Daily Bail posted 7 days ago from dailybail.com

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