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var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"4","title":"The Austerity Debacle","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/opinion/krugman-the-austerity-debacle.html","date":"2012/01/30","id":8538897,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British G.D.P. had regained its previous peak; four years after the Great Recession began, Britain is nowhere close to regaining its lost ground.","authors":"Paul Krugman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.7","num_reviews":"1","title":"Reagan\u2019s Road to Climate Perdition","url":"http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/29/reagans-road-to-climate-perdition/","date":"2012/01/30","id":8539462,"story_type":null,"quote":"Reagan\u2019s Road to Climate Perdition","authors":"Consortiumnews.com","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"Consortium News","framebuster":false,"id":"consortium_news","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"5","title":"Op-Ed Columnist: Jobs, Jobs and Cars","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/krugman-jobs-jobs-and-cars.html","date":"2012/01/26","id":8534677,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president State of the Union address. To really create jobs, it takes a cluster, not just heroes.","authors":"Paul Krugman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Ford may post best year since 1998","url":"http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120126/BUSINESS/301260043/-1/rsslink","date":"2012/01/26","id":8533651,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Ford Motor Co., boosted by a one-time tax gain, may report its most profitable year since 1998, while weakness in Europe and Asia cut fourth-quarter earnings.","authors":"Bloomberg News","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"Louisville Courier-Journal","framebuster":false,"id":null,"ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"6","title":"The State of Obama\u2019s Facts","url":"http://factcheck.org/2012/01/the-state-of-obamas-facts/","date":"2012/01/25","id":8530937,"story_type":"Fact Check","quote":"The president\u2019s State of the Union address got the facts right \u2014 mostly.\r\n\r\nObama said \u201cthe Taliban\u2019s momentum has been broken\u201d in Afghanistan. But targeted assassinations continue, and at least one independent foreign policy expert says the enemy may just be waiting until the U.S. leaves.\r\nThe president said a get-tough tariff on tire imports from China has saved more than 1,000 U.S. jobs. But tire industry officials say Chinese imports have simply been replaced by imports from other countries.\r\nHe took credit for putting \u201cmore boots on the border than ever before.\u201d That\u2019s true, but the big increase was under George W. Bush. And a decrease in illegal border crossings is due mainly to the lack of jobs in the U.S., experts say.\r\nOften the president\u2019s facts and figures were accurate \u2014 but not the whole story. It\u2019s true (barely) that Bush issued more new regulations than Obama at the same point in their presidencies \u2014 but Obama didn\u2019t mention that his cost more. The president pointed proudly to increased oil drilling, increased U.S. oil production, and declining dependence on imports. But understandably he passed over any mention of chronically high gasoline prices, which hit a record of sorts last year. And he boasted of recent increases in jobs \u2014 which still number nearly 1.7 million fewer than when he took office.","authors":"Brooks Jackson, D\u2019Angelo Gore, Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Ben Finley, Lori Robertson","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"FactCheck","framebuster":false,"id":"factcheck","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"2","title":"Fmr. Obama Adviser: Focus on U.S. Inequality in Election-Year SOTU Has Occupy Wall Street's Imprint","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/25/fmr_obama_adviser_focus_on_us","date":"2012/01/25","id":8532840,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"In his last State of the Union speech before the November election, President Obama defended his record addressing the financial crisis and called for greater economic fairness. He warned that Wall Street would no longer be allowed to play by its own set of rules. But the bulk of the speech dealt with the economy. We get reaction from Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and past member of President Obama\u2019s economic team.","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"3","title":"Op-Ed Columnist: Taxes at the Top","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/opinion/krugman-taxes-at-the-top.html","date":"2012/01/19","id":8522885,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"As Mitt Romney dances around calls for him to release his tax returns, a question about U.S. tax policy comes up: Why do the rich bear a startlingly light tax burden?","authors":"Paul Krugman","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"1","title":"Laid-Off Steelworker: Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Profited by Shutting Down Kansas Steel Plant","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/10/laid_off_steelworker_mitt_romney_and","date":"2012/01/10","id":8522883,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney comes under fire in New Hampshire for touting his business experience, we look at how his private equity firm, Bain Capital, drove a Kansas City steel plant into bankruptcy, leading to some 750 layoffs and a federal bailout. Bain still walked away with millions of dollars in profits. We speak with Reuters reporter Andy Sullivan, who covered the story, and with Joe Soptic, a steelworker who lost his job at Kansas City's Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill after 28 years. \"The first thing I noticed after the company was bought out ... they became very union non-friendly. They started looking for ways to eliminate jobs,\" says Soptic. \"In my department, they actually offered to buy our jobs out from underneath us. They cut back on safety equipment.\" Regarding Romney's business acumen, Soptic adds, \"If he runs the country the way he ran our business, I would not want him as president.\" [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Editorial: The Republican Contest","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/the-republican-contest.html","date":"2012/01/10","id":8507875,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"From Iowa\u2019s social conservative fight to New Hampshire\u2019s economic fantasies, the presidential hopefuls are deluding themselves and trying to delude the voters.","authors":"Editorial","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"5.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"The economic illiteracy of economists | Mark Weisbrot","url":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/10/economic-illiteracy-of-economists","date":"2012/01/10","id":8507504,"story_type":null,"quote":"The American Economic Association's annual meeting is red-letter day for 'the dismal science'. And dismal it proved The American Economic Association's annual meetings are a scary sight, with thousands of economists all gathered in the same place \u2013 a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Chicago was the lucky city for 2012 this past weekend, and I had just finished participating in an interesting panel on \"the economics of regime change\" , when I stumbled over to see what the big budget experts had to say about \"the political economy of the US debt and deficits\". The session was introduced by UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach, who put up a graph of the United States' rising debt-to-GDP ratio, and warned of dire consequences if Congress didn't do something about it. Yawn. But the panelists got off to a good start, with Alan Blinder of Princeton, former vice-chairman of the US Federal Reserve, describing the public discussion of the US national debt as generally ranging from \"ludicrous to ...","authors":"Mark Weisbrot","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"The Guardian","framebuster":false,"id":"the_guardian","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}}]