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U.S. GDP rises 3.5% as stimulus kicks in

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Alert Email Print By Rex Nutting , MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.5% annual pace in the third quarter, as massive government stimulus helped drag the economy out of the longest and deepest recession since the 1930s, the Commerce Department estimated ...

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Trouble Ahead: Can the Right Seize the Banking Reform Issue in 2010?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:39:41 +0000

Eliot Spitzer explains how the White House defense of the status quo will give Republicans powerful ammunition in the 2010 elections. Few things are as potent in politics as calling for change at a moment of fundamental dissatisfaction with the status quo. Nobody should know this better ...

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‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:23:00 +0000

‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum

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As Deficit Increases, Democrats Plan More Spending

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:22:00 +0000

The White House disclosed the other day that the fiscal 2009 budget deficit clocked in at $1.4 trillion, amid the usual promises to do something about it. Yet even as budget director Peter Orszag was speaking, House Democrats were moving on a dozen spending bills for fiscal 2010 that total 12.1% ...

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Self-jiving Nation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:47:00 +0000

The scene in the White House these days must be a sort of Opera Bouffe, in which an earnest and rather grave young man moves from one roomful of lesser officials to another in which all agree to pretend that they have prevented the nation from falling into something they call ...

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Video: Obama's Election Night Anniversary

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 01:51:54 +0000

U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh analyzes how the president is doing one year after his historic win.

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Edmunds.com Responds to White House Comments on Cash for Clunkers Analysis

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:39:06 +0000

Today the Department of Transportation and White House chose to respond to an analysis Edmunds.com released Wednesday that looked at auto sales this year and what sales volumes would have been had the popular Cash for Clunkers program never existed.

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Visitor Records

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:10:00 +0000

As part of President Obama's commitment to government transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis online. In December 2009, we will begin posting all White House visitor records for the period from September 15th onwards under the terms of our new voluntary ...

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Stimulus creates 640,000 jobs

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:08:42 +0000

White House releases first broad look at stimulus-funded employment, focusing on $150 billion in spending. But skeptics question the number and quality of the jobs.

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Cash For Clunkers Costs Taxpayers $24,000 Per Vehicle

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:39:06 +0000

PHOTO -- A 1987 Excalibur Autos Phaeton that was 'junked' for $4,500. There are several different ways of analyzing the $3 billion Cash For Clunkers rebate program so popular this Summer. To date, no analysis has looked at the economic cost of junking perfectly functioning ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Democratic donors rewarded with W.H. perks

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:04:00 +0000

During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings. High-dollar fundraisers have been promised ...

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Experts see rebounding economy shedding jobs

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:29:00 +0000

Third-quarter estimates this week are expected to show that the economy grew for the first time since the quarter ending in June 2008. Despite the estimated 3 percent expansion and a stock market that has been on a tear since March, hundreds of thousands of people are still being laid off each ...

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CBS Says White House Is Fudging Stimulus Jobs Numbers

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:10:48 +0000

" When Katie Couric and the folks at CBS start doubting what the Administration says about how effective February's economic stimulus package was, you know President Obama is in trouble."

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Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:32:01 +0000

Inquiring minds are asking the question "How many jobs were created out of the various stimulus programs so far and at what cost per job?" That is a good question. Not that we can believe the reported number of jobs created, but let's assume for the sake of argument that the figures provided by ...

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In Which Jared Bernstein Does a Bad, Bad Thing...

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:04:00 +0000

He talks about the federal budgetary impact of the stimulus program as if it were its net "cost." It isn't. Of course, the misinformation starts with ABC's Jake Tapper: $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse' : Posting its results late this afternoon at ...

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Updating the legislative scenarios: Reply hazy, ask again later

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:18:35 +0000

Democrats have made significant legislative progress. Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid each have a bill to which they are attaching their own names, and those bills roughly represent variants of the committee products within each body. That lends legitimacy to their bills (at least within the ...

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Because It's Important To Know What Your Enemies Are Thinking

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:06:13 +0000

There is a particular cacophonous distaste when Christina Romer's voice waddles through my speakers. The Chair of the White House CEA "cringes at the thought" of ending the stimulus early, and swears that the White House is "not cool with trillion-dollar deficits," though she offers ...

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