reuters.com - 12/15/2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's team is considering a plan to boost the recession-hit U.S. economy that could be far larger than previous estimates and might reach $1 trillion over two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Obama aides, who were considering a ...
money.cnn.com - 12/15/2008
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama unveiled
his energy and environment team on Monday, ushering in...
what's likely to be a dramatic shift in the way the nation tackles the challenges of climate change, energy efficiency and the ...
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Obama names energy, environment team - Dec. 15, 2008
thesmokinggun.com - 12/9/2008
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thesmokinggun.com —
Feds: Blagojevich saw Obama's vacated job as a
"valuable thing" DECEMBER 9--The criminal complaint filed today against...
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich contains a remarkable section detailing the Democratic politician's alleged attempt to cash in on ...
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Obama Senate Seat For Sale? - December 9, 2008
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 12/20/2008
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gregmankiw.blogspot.com —
A letter from a reader: I read your
blog on a daily basis and I've noted your...
skepticism about the monstrous bailout package being considered by the incoming Obama administration. In reading all of the econblogs I can find, I'm struck by the lack of ...
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Obama Team Thinking $1 Trillion, not $600 Million
Fund My Mutual Fund —
Now that's more like it... Keynes is clapping in glee wherever in the ether he now resides. John Maynard Keynes (pronounced /ˈkeɪnz/ "cains") (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, have had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and ...
Obama plans $1 trillion dollar stimulus -- who benefits?
BloggingStocks —
... President-elect Obama has said that he wants to rebuild our infrastructure as a way of jump starting our economy and creating jobs. What does this really mean? To better understand this concept, let's look at a single imaginary construction project. Let's also assume that the Federal Government acts to approve projects submitted by state and local governments. Which people and what skills are involved in it? ...
Obama plans $1 trillion dollar stimulus -- who benefits?
BloggingStocks —
... President-elect Obama has said that he wants to rebuild our infrastructure as a way of jump starting our economy and creating jobs. What does this really mean? To better understand this concept, let's look at a single imaginary construction project. Let's also assume that the Federal Government acts to approve projects submitted by state and local governments. Which people and what skills are involved in it? ...
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producing such a clear, honest assessment. But ...
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Kitchen Cabinet Buzz —
The Big Money 12/11/2008
Riffing off the ideas put forth by journalist Michael Pollan, columnist Nicholas Kristof proposes that Barack Obama change the title of the agriculture secretary to "secretary of food."
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The Green House —
The Big Money 12/17/2008
For President-elect Barack Obama, the sagging economy is the gift that keeps on giving. First, it helped get him elected. Now it's giving him a mandate to spend more than he ever could under normal circumstances.
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Vilsack: Slow Change We Can Believe In —
The Big Money 12/17/2008
In announcing his choice of Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture on Wednesday, President-elect Obama talked about how the Department of Agriculture is "designed to serve not big agribusiness or Washington influence-peddlers, but family farmers ...
Education: B+ for the new boy —
The Economist: Full print edition 12/18/2008
Barack Obama’s education secretary is a diplomatic reformer DURING the election campaign the economy submerged most talk of education. But beneath the surface, a debate churned between the self-proclaimed reformers and the teachers’ ...
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