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Blaming It on Obama

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:58 +0000

Last week I wrote a post about “ government debt hysteria ” that has gotten a lot of attention because of a link from Paul Krugman . (As Felix Salmon , said, “blogging is a lottery on the individual-blog-entry level.”) The main point of last week’s post was not ...

jamesykwak posted 27 hours ago from baselinescenario.com

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Role reversal

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:02:15 +0000

The same people now warning about the alleged Treasury bubble dismissed warnings about the housing bubble

Economist's View found this 36 hours ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Time for U.S. to declare bankruptcy

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:57:15 +0000

The Treasury Department whose mission has ostensibly expanded to include management of government finances, the promotion of economic growth and stability, and the provision of safety, soundness, and security in financial systems will hit its debt ceiling (yet again) by year s end. In the ...

The Austrian Economists found this 7 days ago on eastvalleytribune.com

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The Poverty Trap

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:00 +0000

Chapter 20 of my favorite textbook has a section on antipoverty programs and work incentives. One basic point is that when multiple income-based programs are piled on top on one another, the implicit marginal tax rate can reach or even exceed 100 percent. The chart above ( source, via Kling ) ...

SCSUScholars found this 12 days ago on gregmankiw.blogspot.com

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Should America Kowtow to China?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:21:03 +0000

By Marshall Auerback of New Deal 2.0 Do the Chinese really fund our deficit? Or is this more Neo-classical money mythology? Another Presidential junket to Asia and another one of the usual lectures from China, decrying our “ profligate ways ”. Today’s Wall ...

Philstockworld posted 2 days ago from philstockworld.com

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Invisible bond vigilantes

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:32:04 +0000

It would be a very, very bad thing if the administration is intimidated into passivity -- or, worse, into neo-Hooverism -- by the threat from invisible, probably imaginary enforcers.

Rolfe Winkler found this 4 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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China's Blunt Talk for Obama

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:57:45 +0000

BY JONATHAN WEISMAN, AARON BACK AND ANDREW BROWNE BEIJING -- China's top banking regulator issued a sharp critique of U.S. financial management only hours before President Barack Obama commenced his first visit to the Asian giant, highlighting economic and trade tensions that threaten to ...

naked capitalism found this 7 days ago on online.wsj.com

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Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing Taliban

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:48 +0000

" Warning that the cost of occupying Afghanistan is a threat to the Democrats’ plan to overhaul health care, lawmakers have announced their plan to make Americans pay an additional war tax that will be taken directly from their income, never mind the fact that around 36 per cent of federal taxes ...

iehi posted 3 days ago from hf-implode.com

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Obama Job Approval Down to 49%

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0000

PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup Daily tracking results show 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, putting him below the majority approval level for the first time in his presidency. Do You Approve or Disapprove of the Job Barack Obama Is Doing as President? ...

Between the Hedges found this 3 days ago on gallup.com

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The Puzzles of American Political Economy Today

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:17:00 +0000

Three points to serve as background: First of all, from the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the policies followed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. administrations have been very helpful. They have been good ones. The alternative--standing back and ...

Economist's View found this 3 days ago on delong.typepad.com

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Author Glenn Greenwald With Bill Moyers (Complete PBS Interview)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:25:15 +0000

Non-broadcast, web exclusive interview with from October 30. Greenwald and Moyers discuss Afghanistan, government secrecy under Obama and Bush, populist anger at Wall Street, the economy, and his public challenge to the editorial staff of the Washington Post to justify their ...

The Daily Bail posted 13 days ago from dailybail.com

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What Health Care Reform Means for: Medicare Programs

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:29:39 +0000

Neither the House health care reform bill nor the Senate Finance Committee bill eliminates Medicare Advantage, but both would reduce what the government is willing to pay. The boon for private insurers from higher premium subsidies has long been a prime target for budget savings, especially among

MediaMan posted 7 days ago from onthehillblog.blogspot.com

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Tune for the Day: B-B-B-Bennnie and the Fed

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:15:53 +0000

Hey you, let’s all go broke together The Dollar’s hitting levels That Zimbabwe thinks is terror We’ve killed the fatted calf and our money is crashing to the ground You’re gonna see more investors holding Euros and the Pound Say, Timmy and Barack, ...

Philstockworld posted 12 days ago from philstockworld.com

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For The Next Week, Joe Biden's In Charge (SNL Video)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:41 +0000

Email Video To A Friend Saturday Night Live: Biden Assumes The Position While Obama Travels To Asia -- Aired Nov. 14 Watch (don't click unless you're coming from our email newsletter) Vice President Biden (Jason Sudeikis) believes he can get health care reform passed in a ...

The Daily Bail posted 6 days ago from dailybail.com

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President Obama Establishes Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:51:01 +0000

Attorney General Eric Holder, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Mary Schapiro today announced that President Barack Obama has established by Executive Order an interagency ...

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Obama's Wrong-Headed Thinking on the Deficit

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:05:42 +0000

Edward Harrison catches this quote from Obama: The president is in Beijing as part of his tour through several Asian countries to address economic challenges. He spoke candidly about the precarious balancing act his administration is trying to perform. He wants to spend money to kick-start the ...

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 5 days ago on economistsview.typepad.com

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U.S. in standoff with Beijing over Chinese currency -

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Obama in China President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gesture to each other before the start of their talks in Beijing. ( David Gray / AFP/Getty Images / November 18 , 2009 )

The Mess That Greenspan Made found this 5 days ago on latimes.com

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China’s Role as Lender Alters Dynamics for Obama’s Visit

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:27:31 +0000

When President Obama visits China for the first time on Sunday, he will, in many ways, be assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker. That stark fact — China is the largest foreign lender to the United States — has changed the core of the relationship ...

iehi posted 9 days ago from hf-implode.com

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Obama's trap

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:40:13 +0000

Was Mr. Obama really led to believe that his stimulus proposal was as bold as he claimed it was?

The Daily Bail found this 12 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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The Honey Trap for Obama

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:15:46 +0000

I argued last week that all the electric vehicle talk we heard so much of at Chrysler and GM during their restructuring (remember all those GM electric car ads on TV , which have now disappeared?) were just a honey trap for Obama. Auto makers knew that they were not designing a car for the ...

Division of Labour found this 10 days ago on coyoteblog.com

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