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http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/09/28/anti-outsourcing-fails-senate-test-vote/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxbusiness%2Feconomy+%28Internal+-+Economy+-+Text%29 Nice one, GOP. Stand up for the American worker. Help get this economy moving again. Help...

By 8%. How does that fact sit with you tea baggers?

The arguments over letting the Bush tax cuts "sunset", extend them partially, make them permanent, make some permanent.... Makes my head spin. We know Republicans generally want all the cuts, even for the wealthiest Americans, to be at least extended and preferably made permanent. Obama wants...

Is the US economy in recovery or is it entering a Depression? 'Update on America's Second Great Depression (Part 1)': http://www.avaresearch.com/article_details-519.html

After Health-care reform was passed by the House and signed by the President, the Dow Jones went up...not down. Yesterday, Obama gives a speech at Cooper Union, blasting Wall Street and proposing major market and banking reforms and regulations. Following this, the Dow Jones goes up...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36322393/ns/business-businessweekcom/page/2/ A decent read, but I don't think the recovery will start to seem real to Joe-Six-Pack until unemployment starts to drop and wages start to rise. Hopefully, that will happen soon, god help us if conservative regain the...

It would have been taken over by the government by now. The economy's "benchmarks" over the last ten years have been terrible: - Negative job growth for the entire decade - Negative stock market (DJIA) growth for the decade. - Negative income growth for the decade In education, we're told...

After eight years (or at least six) of Republican misrule that resulted in skyrocketing national debt, I was hoping that the new kid on the block would take it more seriously. He ran on the promise of a tax increase, and he hasn't delivered. On the spending side, though, he has come through...

A recent post on Nate Silver's blog reminded me of some Op-Eds and editorials from early this year after Obama took office but before the stock market turned around. At that time, the weakness in equity markets was taken as evidence by many right-wing pundits that Obama's economic policies would...

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/27/obamacares-cost-could-top-6-trillion/ Would a $5 trillion dollar difference in the real cost versus what we are being told will be the cost constitute a mistake or a lie on part of those claiming the cost will be $1 trillion over 10 years? I say the...

Clunkers: Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the...

Outlook on Economy Is Brightening, Poll Finds Some key points of the article... Seems like very good news for Obama & the Democrats, and some pretty miserable news for the GOP. If Obama can keep helping people's confidence, then in the long run we'll get through this mess and come out...

From another thread I submit this:MIT professor and former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson wrote perhaps the best piece I've seen on the causes of the crisis, what should be done, and the reasons for why it isn't done. This is a little funny, considering I've spent quite a bit of time during...

Tell you what folks, let's go back to talking about the big problems. :D http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871911466984927.html Any Obama supporters want to defend the indefensible? :D

Just listen to Dick Morris in this video clip folks: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=4162273&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512347,00.html It may be worse than even I feared. :mad:

Link Sounds like fun. I'd like to go, but it's in Illinois, which is a pretty long drive for me. Anyone else going?

so for the last 25+/- years we've been subjected to; cut taxes on the rich less regulation on business open markets voodoo economics yet, over and over again and again not only has this "plan" failed but tax payers are left holding the bag and told that it's for our OWN good. From good...

No, wait...yesterday morning McCain said,"Our economy, I think still—the fundamentals of our economy are strong." Back in '31 during the Great Depresion another Republican had a similar view. Hebert Hoover was quoted as saying, "The economy is fundamentally sound." I can see how Grampy got the...

Payroll tax on incomes above $250,000 "The payroll tax is now applied to all income up to $102,000 a year, which covers the entire amount for most Americans. Under Obama's plan, the tax would not apply to incomes between that amount and $250,000. But all annual income above the...

After hearing McCain's speech on the economy yesterday, I couldn't help but do some thinking. McCain has called for a relaxation of the federal gas tax during the summer months in the US to try to offset the high price spikes that occur during the summer months. I am interested is finding out if...