baselinescenario.com - 1/7/2009
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Most of the current discussion regarding the Obama Economic Plan focuses on whether the fiscal stimulus should be somewhat larger or smaller ($650-800bn seems the current range) and the composition between spending and tax cuts. President Obama stressed on Tuesday that trillion dollar ...
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 1/10/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama says his proposed stimulus package
could create enough jobs to swallow up last year's...
2.6 million job losses. In his weekly address, Obama says his administration will create jobs and help those who've lost theirs.
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Video: Obama pieces together economic plan
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... From the beginning, we’ve expressed concern here that the entire Summers Plan was overweight fiscal, i.e., not enough resources for recapitalizing banks and addressing housing directly (for the context of this assessment, see our ...
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