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Progressive Breakfast - 11/13/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Announced Summit Renews Focus On Job Creation LA Times reports on planned WH jobs summit and Senate jobs bills: "...Obama said he would gather chief executives,...
What We Want From A White House Jobs Summit
President Obama's team made it clear months ago that he will brook no talk of a "second stimulus" at a time when the first stimulus is under significant criticism—from the right, to be sure, but also from the left. Nonetheless, Thursday's announcement of a White House...
Conservatives' Race to Oblivion, Pt. 1
I've used this quote (attributed to Maya Angelou) before: "When people show you who they really are, believe them." I guess in periods of tremendous change people really reveal who they really are. I'll return to this in more detail post, but the news and debate...
What Chinese Currency Manipulation Looks Like
As President Obama packs for China, I thought I’d show him a picture of how China is manipulating its currency. Source: Federal Reserve: Yuan, Broad dollar index. Graphic idea compliments of AAM. The dollar stays flat against the Chinese Yuan, even as it loses value...
Tripping in China: Barack Obama's Challenge
This week, Barack Obama trips to China as part of an eight-day trip to Asia. The White House paints a full agenda: Afghanistan, human rights, North Korean nukes, climate change, trade relations, and the economy. But it's really just the economy, stupid. For decades...
Progressive Breakfast: Reid Not Done
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Reid Not Finished Making Changes To Health Care Bill Pushback against latest idea from Sen. Carper to bury public option. DailyKos' mcjoan: "A triggered co-op!...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/12/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Reid Not Finished Making Changes To Health Care Bill Pushback against latest idea from Sen. Carper to bury public option. DailyKos' mcjoan: "A triggered co-op!...
$140 Billion for Bonuses, Zero for America’s Future
Here is another story about Wall Street’s war on the real economy. US Steel was planning to invest $1 billion in building an environmentally-friendly new “coke battery” plant in Clairton, PA. The new battery would dramatically reduce the emissions used in the process,...
Shorter Media: CBO, What CBO?
All summer, traditional media reporters hyperventilated at every preliminary Congressional Budget Office estimate of draft health care bills.
Progressive Breakfast: Senate To Start Slow Health Care Debate
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day CBO Expected To Score Senate Bill Soon, Kickstart Debate The Hill suggests Senate debate starts next week, passage by Christmas, final bill by State of the...
