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A Bonus We Can Believe In
So, we got punked on the bailout? Here's an idea to keep in mind for a condition on the next $350 billion installment. If banks want to reward their investment bankers with bonuses, I say let 'em. So long as they follow the Credit Suisse example. Kudos to Credit...
Up With Downward Mobility
Every once in a while, an idea gels in my head and I dismiss it, thinking to myself "Nah. I gotta be missing something. It can't be that. And then I hear someone who probably knows a lot more than I do about the subject at hand say pretty much what I'd been thinking...
Progressive Breakfast: Bush Serves Up Auto Rescue
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Auto Rescue Finally Announced NYT reports this AM: President Bush on Friday announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of General...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/19/2008
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Auto Rescue Finally Announced NYT reports this AM: President Bush on Friday announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of General...
CNN Levies Right-Wing Hit on Infrastructure Projects
As noted in yesterday's edition of Progressive Breakfast, Marc Ambinder recently laid out the conservative strategy to attack any economic recovery program: A trillion dollars worth of government spending over the course of a few years is a ripe target for...
Progressive Breakfast: Lines Drawn In Health Care Fight
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Today's Number is $850B Bloomberg cites one Obama aide to report the new administration will ask for an $850B economic recovery package: "Obama’s...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/18/2008
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Today's Number is $850B Bloomberg cites one Obama aide to report the new administration will ask for an $850B economic recovery package: "Obama’s...
Public Health Insurance Plan Option "Non-Negotiable"
Earlier today, we at Institute for America's Future hosted a media conference call to release the new report from Prof. Jacob Hacker, "The Case for Public Plan Choice in National Health Reform." (Audio of the session is here) And ABC picked up on the big news:...
This Can't Really Be the Economy...
I'm not an economist. I've never studied economics, beyond reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economics about a year ago. I've read about derivatives, and had my mind blown by the concept of securitization and the idea that people not only sell debt, but chop it up...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/17/2008
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. ALERT: The Conservative Attack Strategy On Economic Recovery Marc Ambinder: "A trillion dollars worth of government spending over the course of a few years...
