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New Unemployment, Old Solutions

By Eric Lotke
November 6, 2009

Today’s unemployment data contain gloomy news. Gloomy, but expected. The interpretation of the data is even worse. more »

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Building a Smart Grid, Smartly

By Eric Lotke
October 27, 2009

President Barack Obama announced today $3.4 billion in government grants to help build a "smart" electric grid. Like many Obama initiatives, it’s a smart first step. But much more is needed and one piece is rarely mentioned at all. more »

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Shorter CBO, Media: 'We Need Science Classes'

By Natasha Chart
October 16, 2009

It's remarkable how often economists ignore physical reality. Whether they're suggesting that economies can act as perpetual motion machines or suggesting that resource availability is meaningless to economic growth, I'm always prompted to think they should make science classes a mandatory part of the economics curriculum. more »

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Choosing One's Battles

By Susan Ozawa
August 4, 2009

Isn’t it funny how the Obama administration outlined very rough principles for congress to hash out in designing the energy bill and health care reform while for financial regulation congress received an explicit outline of the entire structure down to the letter and now Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is rounding up the heads of the regulatory agencies and more »

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Hobbled, We're Losing The Global Energy Race

By Eric Lotke
July 15, 2009

While American ideologues talk free market purity, countries with intelligent, carefully considered industrial policies are pulling ahead of us. Energy is the key.

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Building a Clean Energy Economy: The IMPACT Act

By Eric Lotke
July 8, 2009

The Waxman-Markey Clean Energy and Security Act squeaked through the House of Representatives late last week (219-212). One unheralded addition in the closing hours makes the bill even stronger and more important — the IMPACT provision to support clean energy manufacturing in America.

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Good deficit, bad deficit.

By Eric Lotke
May 8, 2009

Obama has introduced his budget, and people are hyperventilating about the deficit. With all the hyperventilating, we are forgetting what’s most important. Deficits aren’t necessarily bad. Sometimes deficits can be good.

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Fixing the Economy. Seriously.

By Eric Lotke
January 8, 2009

There were no theatrics. No single women came in to protest life’s travails, no displaced workers told of the factory shut down. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Forum was government as it should be. Serious people hard at work. more »

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Coal Ash Spill Is Much Larger Than Initially Estimated

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December 26th, 2008

nytimes.com — A coal ash spill that blanketed residential neighborhoods and contaminated nearby rivers in Roane County, Tenn., earlier this week is more than three times larger than initially estimated, the Tennessee Valley Authority said on Thursday.

Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal, contains toxic heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium that can cause cancer and neurological problems.

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With A Compass, Not A Roadmap

By Eric Lotke
November 26, 2008

Political change happens with a compass, not a roadmap. Obama has clearly indicated which way he wants to lead. Our job is to push him forwards and keep him on course.

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