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robertreich.blogspot.com - 11/4/2009
How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus, and Why He Must
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The Administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment situation would become by Fall. As a result, it low-balled the stimulus -- settling for a plan that, while avoiding even worse job losses, didn't go nearly far enough. Obama has ...

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Economist's View — ... Calomiris on historical crisis lessons - voxeu.org How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus - Robert Reich ...

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TraderFeed — ... temptation in trading; * Thoughts on the mechanics of trading and hitting; * Interesting visual representation of historical price action in stocks; * Questioning economic growth in China; * Limits on credit card rates weighing on banking stocks; * Making a political case for further stimulus in the U.S.; * What Dr. Brett listens to while collecting ...

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