change.gov - 12/6/2008
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Yesterday we learned that our economy has lost 2 million jobs since the recession began 11 months ago.
That's why, in today's weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama explains the key parts of his Economic Recovery Plan -- which will save or create 2.5 million jobs in the next two years. ...
chicagotribune.com - 12/10/2008
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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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Obama Discusses Job Creation Plan
Breaking News: CBS News —
(AP) President-elect Barack Obama said Saturday that he's asked his economic team for a recovery plan that saves or creates more than 2 million jobs, makes public buildings more energy-efficient and invests in the country's roads and schools. "We won't just throw money at the problem," Obama said in the Democratic Party's weekly radio address . "We'll measure progress by the reforms we make and the results we achieve - by the jobs we create, by the energy we save, by whether America is more competitive in the world." Obama's remarks come after the Labor Department announced ...
Obama Releases Some Details on Economic Stimulus Package
Calculated Risk —
... there aren't anywhere near enough "shovel ready" projects to offset the decline in private non-residential structure investment that I expect in 2009. Obama has added several more key areas in addition to roads and bridges; he is also proposing to invest in energy efficiency for public buildings, upgrade school buildings, and expanding broadband to all schools, libraries and hospitals. Here is an excerpt: [W]e need action – and action now. ... Today, I am announcing a few ...
Frozen
Macro Man —
... and the US president-elect has promised to restore American prosperity by installing new windows in public schools...but colour Macro Man sceptical that this is a reason to buy stocks. Yet there was the Eurostoxx future, up 7% on the day when Macro Man walked in. As Macro Man keeps saying (with a regularity rapidly approaching ad nauseum), seven percent rallies don't happen in bull markets. ...
Obama Calls for Recovery With Energy-Efficient Public Buildings
Earth2Tech —
... As part of his Economic Recovery Plan that he hopes will create 2.5 million new jobs, President-elect Barack Obama is calling for an effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient. In his weekly radio address, Obama announced a plan to seek energy-efficient upgrades for federal and public school buildings (see video below). ...
Change We /Would/ Believe In
Economic Principals —
... The first false note of Barack Obama’s presidency was an alarming one. He stumbled when he briefly described his National Recovery Plan during his regular Saturday radio broadcast on December 6, promising to 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.” That simply isn’t credible. ...
The real world
Crooked Timber —
... It is great to see an administration again that cares about information technologies (see related comments in Obama’s weekly address from two weeks ago). However, it’s important to realize that achieving a knowledgeable Internet citizenry is not simply a technological problem and thus cannot be resolved by a solely technical solution. There is plenty of research now that shows how mere access to the Internet does not level the playing field when it comes to achieving universal Internet literacy. Rather, coupling technical access with education about uses is an ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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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