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U.S. Car Manufacturers Have Record December
Chrysler announced its best monthly retail sales in four year years, leading the pack of U.S. car makers who had ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
America's army of jobless
The real number of unemployed or underemployed people in the U.S. is a stunning 26.9 million.When President Obama ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Surge in Free School Lunches Reflects Economic Crisis
Millions of students are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents have lost jobs or ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Ray Kachel’s journey from Seattle to Zuccotti Park.
Until this fall, Ray Kachel had lived virtually all of his fifty-three years within a few miles of his birthplace, ...Posted by Jack Powers -
The Pledge: Grover Norquist's hold on the GOP
As head of Americans for Tax Reform since 1986, Grover Norquist has transformed a single issue - preventing tax ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
World financial markets tumble on news of debt supercommittee’s stalemate
World financial markets tumbled Monday, as there were no new signs of resolution to Europe’s intractable ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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Ford may post best year since 1998
Ford Motor Co., boosted by a one-time tax gain, may report its most profitable year since 1998, while weakness in ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
The State of Obama’s Facts
The president’s State of the Union address got the facts right — mostly. Obama said “the Taliban’s ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Fmr. Obama Adviser: Focus on U.S. Inequality in Election-Year SOTU Has Occupy Wall Street's Imprint
(Multimedia) In his last State of the Union speech before the November election, President Obama defended his record addressing ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Laid-Off Steelworker: Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Profited by Shutting Down Kansas Steel Plant
(Multimedia) As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney comes under fire in New Hampshire for touting his business ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The Austerity Debacle
Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Op-Ed Columnist: Jobs, Jobs and Cars
Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president State of the Union address. To really create ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Op-Ed Columnist: Taxes at the Top
As Mitt Romney dances around calls for him to release his tax returns, a question about U.S. tax policy comes up: ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Editorial: The Republican Contest
From Iowa’s social conservative fight to New Hampshire’s economic fantasies, the presidential hopefuls are ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
The economic illiteracy of economists | Mark Weisbrot
The American Economic Association's annual meeting is red-letter day for 'the dismal science'. And dismal it proved ...Posted by khermie ramirez -
Op-Ed Columnist: Bain, Barack and Jobs
Mitt Romney says that President Obama has been a job destroyer, while he was a job-creating businessman. But those ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski
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Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition
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The Most Important Speech of His Presidency
(Blog Post) The President’s speech today in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Corporate America Is Sitting On The Solution To The Jobs Crisis: Report
If America's largest banks and non-financial companies would just loosen their death-grip on a chunk of the $3.6 ...Posted by Jack Powers -
Eurozone Catastrophe: How Saving the Euro Could Mean Blood on the Streets
The whole future shape of Europe must be resolved in a week or so. It’s a high-stakes game of poker that the ...Posted by Sarah Freed
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