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Fed Chief Says Trade Imbalance Helped Cause Crisis
Here is some news for you: Fed Chief Cites Trade Imbalances’ Role in Crisis, Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Monday that global trade imbalances played a central role in the global economic crisis and warned that both the United States...
Does China's Nylon Tariff Help American Manufacturing?
A few weeks ago, in a case involving a tire import surge President Obama enforced our trade agreement with China. The agreement spelled out that a disruptive surge in imports would be remedied by imposing a tariff, which is what the President did. Of course he was...
Democracy Corps Probes The 'Separate World' Of Conservatism
Commentators, including our own Sara Robinson and author Neal Gabler, have observed a resurgent brand of conservatism that has taken on the characteristics of religious zealotry. It is a brand of conservatism that cannot be negotiated with because its adherents see...
Banker Bonus Bingo: Every Card's a Winner
Can excess on Wall Street ever be ended? Maybe. Some lawmakers in France have a plan that could end it. America’s biggest banks, amid the shakiest economic times since the 1930s, last week announced record profits — and deposited record billions into bonus...
Progressive Breakfast: Public Option Limbo
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Jockeying Continues As Reid Drafts Health Care Bill Sen. Harkin does a public option whip count for NYT: "'There are 52 solid Democrats for the public option,'...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/19/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Jockeying Continues As Reid Drafts Health Care Bill Sen. Harkin does a public option whip count for NYT: "'There are 52 solid Democrats for the public option,'...
Democrats: Stop Kissing Elephant Trunk and Reform Health Insurance Right
The meeting got testy. Voices rose last Thursday among Democrats over differences in the Senate Finance and Health committee versions of insurance reform. Max Baucus defended his committee’s bill, voted out last week with one Republican, but lacking a public option...
The House Will Make Sure the Senate Includes a Robust Public Option
This is the moment when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (and President Obama) should make history by producing a Senate health reform bill that makes health insurance truly affordable for all Americans, creates a strong...
Moving Away From A Service Economy ... By Yourself
Many of us talk about how we need shift from being mainly a service-based economy and revitalize our manufacturing base. Few of us actually make the shift ourselves. On Saturday's The LiberalOasis Radio Show, which airs on WHMP in Western MA, "My River Chronicles"...
A Possible Change In NAFTA Trade Policy?
This is interesting: US, Mexico, Canada to hold talks on NAFTA. From the story, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement Thursday that he will host Mexico's Secretary of the Economy Gerardo Ruiz Mateos and Canadian Trade Minister Stockwell Day for talks on...
