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Progressive Breakfast - 12/2/2008

Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Feel That? It's Your Economy Shrinking. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared we've been in recession since December 2007. Washington Monthly's...

Progressive Breakfast - 12/1/2008

Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Meet The New Bosses. Obama and Biden to announce new national security team at 10:30 AM ET, expected to feature Sen. Clinton at State, Robert Gates to...

Applying Mitt-o-nomics To The Citigroup Bailout

As we all know, Mitt Romney is the smartest and greatest businessman that ever graced our land. For some reason, I haven't heard him weigh in on the bailout of Citigroup. But since he already offered a plan for dealing with the struggling auto companies, I imagine we...

The Trillion-Dollar Scare Tactic

Today, the Washington Post casually warns that "the annual federal budget deficit already is spiraling toward $1 trillion -- about 7 percent of the gross domestic product -- a level not seen since the end of World War II," to raise concern about the size of any...

The Growing Unemployment Line

Front page of the Daily Hampshire Gazette here in Northampton, MA offers some stark news. Unemployment lines have more than doubled since last year in the Western MA counties of Hampshire and Franklin, and the state unemployment offices don't have the staff yet to...

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