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Creep of the Week: PennyMac's Stanford L. Kurland
Ever since President Obama announced his plan to forestall foreclosures, many of those lucky enough to have burned their mortgages have angrily suggested that less frugal homeowners get the Creep of the Week award. While acknowledging such...
Sliding Economy Demands More Action, Not Less
The Washington Post had an interesting lead sentence for its coverage of the White House health care summit: "...President Obama yesterday reiterated his pledge to enact comprehensive legislation this year, an ambitious undertaking many say is further complicated by...
Progressive Breakfast: Health Care. This Year.
Unemployment Jumps To 8.1% Bureau of Labor Statistics this AM reports big jump in unemployment: "The sharp and widespread contraction in the labor market continued in February. Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 651,000, following declines of 681,000 in December and...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/6/2009
Unemployment Jumps To 8.1% Bureau of Labor Statistics this AM reports big jump in unemployment: "The sharp and widespread contraction in the labor market continued in February. Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 651,000, following declines of 681,000 in December and...
Progressive Breakfast: Health Care Summit Today
Health Care Summit Today Reuters: "President Barack Obama takes on healthcare reform at a White House forum on Thursday, seeking to design an overhaul of a costly and inefficient system he believes is threatening the U.S. economy … The president has not...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/5/2009
Health Care Summit Today Reuters: "President Barack Obama takes on healthcare reform at a White House forum on Thursday, seeking to design an overhaul of a costly and inefficient system he believes is threatening the U.S. economy ... The president has not presented a...
CPR Means "DNR" for Health Care Reform
They're at it again. Conservatives, in concert with the health insurance industry, are desperately reaching for relevance on health care. But what they call CPR is really DNR — a "do not resuscitate" order for a health care system in critical condition. "Conservatives...
Progressive Breakfast: Shovels Hit Ground
Shovels Hit Ground CNN reports on release of transportation stimulus funds: [President] Obama and [Transportation Sec. Ray] LaHood on Tuesday announced the release of $27 billion in funds from the stimulus package "to help states create a 21st-century infrastructure."...
A Talk With Dean Baker: "We Really Need Much More Stimulus"
Leo W. Gerard: Economist James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, recently told Deborah Solomon of the New York Times that you are “the person with the most serious claim” for predicting the...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/4/2009
Shovels Hit Ground CNN reports on release of transportation stimulus funds: [President] Obama and [Transportation Sec. Ray] LaHood on Tuesday announced the release of $27 billion in funds from the stimulus package "to help states create a 21st-century infrastructure."...
