by Dave Johnson | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
In the State of the Union speech President Obama set a goal of doubling American exports by 2015. The Commerce Department is launching a National Export Initiative to work on getting this done. The National Export Initiative is focused on three key areas: 1. A more...
by Mary Bottari | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
While Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was on the talk shows reassuring America that the economy is healing, developments in Europe threatened to cut the legs out from under a U.S. recovery. The short story is that Greece and a number of other European Union (EU)...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
Sarah Palin's keynote speech was quite a hit at this weekend's Tea Party convention. She even took a shot at pinning responsibility for the deficit on the Obama administration. "The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb...
by Bill Scher | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
Right now, we taxpayers give big banks billions to subsidize their student loans. Giving big banks money is decidedly unpopular after the TARP bailout, among liberals and conservatives. So you'd think there would be consensus to end the subsidies. Apparently not....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
On Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report that another 20,000 Americans had lost their jobs in January, the right-wing spin machine immediately unleashed one of their tried-and-true talking points: that the reason the economy is not creating...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 8, 2010 | Blog
Much of the public believes that tax cuts "create jobs." A recent Rasmussen poll found that 59% of voters believe cutting taxes is better than increasing government spending as a job-creation tool. This proves that repeating a slogan over and over can effect what...
