politico.com - 12/6/2008
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On Saturday, Obama pledged the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Eisenhower. See also: Governors applaud Obama spending plans
bloomberg.com - 12/7/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama said
he’ll make the “single largest new investment” in roads,...
bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration to lift the sagging economy and create jobs. Obama, in his weekly radio ...
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Obama Plans Largest Building Program Since 1950s (Update1)
telegraph.co.uk - 12/8/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
President-elect Barack Obama has warned that things are
going to get worse before they get better as...
he outlined details of an economic stimulus package that could reach $1 trillion and is designed to lift the United States out of recession.
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Barack Obama unveils $1 trillion economic stimulus package
chicagotribune.com - 12/10/2008
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chicagotribune.com —
Barack Obama talks to Tribune Barack Obama says
his heart will remain in Chicago, even as he...
moves to Washington. ( Alex Garcia / Tribune / December 9, 2008)
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Barack the Handy Man
QandO —
It appears Mr. Obama’s New New Deal economic recovery plan involves a lot of handyman work. 3 points of his 5 point plan involve, well, fixing things. Private sector? Nada: ...
Perhaps I Have Had Too Much Hope
The Overhead Wire —
This language is not change we can believe in. I can't keep giving the benefit of the doubt with language like this alone from Obama: ROADS AND BRIDGES: “[W]e will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s. We’ll invest your precious tax dollars in new and smarter ways, and we’ll set a simple rule – use it or lose it. If a state doesn’t act quickly to invest in roads and bridges in their communities, they’ll lose the money.”No ...
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Obama and the Stock Market
qando.net 11/6/2008 — N o this isn’t what you think. It’s just a rather interesting example of how the press, even within one agency, and writing about the same story, will spin it in different directions to the point that you might not realize they’re ...
Obama’s Bear
optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com 3/5/2009 —
I will preface this post by emphasizing that it is NOT Barack Obama’s fault that the market has fallen so much on his watch. The American economy was grossly over-leveraged before he was even elected to the Senate in 2004.
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For Those Who Said He Wouldn't
maxedoutmama.blogspot.com 11/19/2008 — The governors had their climate change conference, and Obama made an appearance yesterday. The NY Times has the story : Speaking by video to a climate conference in Los Angeles, Mr. Obama repeated his campaign vow to reduce climate-altering carbon ...
Obama’s Tax Promises
cato-at-liberty.org 11/11/2008 — President-elect Obama has made a slew of tax promises. Some of them are tax increases, some of them are tax cuts, and many of them are actually spending increases. Let’s try to sort them out.
Here I classify tax changes in comparison with the ...
Obama stimulus could reach $1 trillion: report
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reuters.com 12/15/2008 — 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 ...
Dissident Notes on the Obama Coronation
cato-at-liberty.org 1/20/2009 — It’s wall-to-wall Obama in the newspapers and on the airwaves, and I keep wondering, Was it quite so overwhelming in the run-up to previous inaugurations? I think not. Presumably the gushing media response is generated by some combination of ...
AN OBAMA PANIC? - New York Post
nypost.com 10/13/2008 — Posted: 4:09 am October 13, 2008 Barack Obama has re mained cool and confident amid the financial melt down, even as John McCain at times has been embarrassing, lurching from one proposal to the next. But while the polls are reflecting Obama's steady ...
The Obama Crash
howardlindzon.com 1/23/2009 — I can’t vote, but declared myself an Obaman. That seems like a long time ago.
The problem we face is that we are accelerating out of control. It’s not Obama’s fault and it’s not Obama’s problem to fix. He can’t. ...
A new monetary policy for the 21st century
blogs.ft.com 1/13/2009 — By Roger Farmer
For the past seventy years, policy makers have relied on fiscal and monetary policy to combat recessions. Monetary policy works by lowering real interest rates and stimulating private expenditure. Since the nominal interest rate on ...
Blog Archive » Hedge funds: “Yes, we can!”
ftalphaville.ft.com 11/6/2008 — What a curious relationship exists between newly-elected US President Barack Obama and hedge funds. The industry has donated over $1m to Obama’s campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org (small change to a hedge fund manager, perhaps, but it still makes ...
The Senate: Firewall erected —
The Economist: Full print edition 12/4/2008
The Democrats will not now have a Senate supermajority ON A freezing election-eve in downtown Atlanta, T.I., a local rapper attired in large, shiny jeans sitting loosely well below his waist, orated on the steps of Georgia’s state capitol. ...
Lexington: Jumping the gun —
The Economist: Full print edition 12/4/2008
Barack Obama’s first 100 days have already begun EVER since Franklin Roosevelt put the building blocks of the New Deal in place in his first 100 days in office, presidents have been subjected to the 100-days test. For that brief spell, they ...
Micromanaging Detroit —
The Big Money 12/5/2008
The chiefs of the Big Three automakers paraded through Washington this week, asking, with ever greater plaintiveness and desperation, for federal help. Just a couple of months ago, the citizens of Michigan were treated to speeches about the ...
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