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The Obama Plan vs. The Romney No Plan

Mitt Romney's jobs plan is a collection of bullet points masking the fact that he has literally no proposals to create jobs. President Barack Obama's newly published jobs plan is a collection of bullet points that understates the detail in the jobs policies he has...

Trade Deficit - One Root Of Many Problems

You buy things till your wallet is empty. So you raid the savings account to buy more stuff. Then you get a loan, and buy more stuff. Another loan, another, you keep buying stuff… Finally you're selling off the tools you had used to make a living. That's where...

China Exports Trouble to U.S.

Over the years, China exported all sorts of toxic, dangerous and killer products to the United States. There was the tainted made-in-China Heparin blood thinner that killed more than 100 Americans. There were the recalled made-in-China toys, jewelry and clothing...

Debate Debate

So, I'm hearing this morning that despite the fact that President Obama clearly won last night's foreign policy debate, he actually lost: Josh Marshall tweeted that reporter friends of his are saying Mitt's playing 12 dimensional chess. I guess that makes sense since...

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