by Brian Dockstader | Aug 28, 2009 | Blog
♫No one knows what it's like To be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes No one knows what it's like...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 28, 2009 | Blog
When China was accepted into the World Trade Organization, they agreed that if we experienced import surges of Chinese goods that caused "market disruption," we would be allowed to limit the import of those goods. The particular section of the agreement is called...
by Brian Dockstader | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog
by Eric Lotke | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog
Today’s data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis tell the same old story. National GDP is dropping and personal incomes are dropping along with it. These are troubled times. But wait! There's more! Corporate profits are on the rise. Source: BEA: GDP, personal income,...
by Sara Robinson | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog
August, die she must. The town hall freak show is winding down, the media circus is packing the cameras and satellite dishes and hairspray back into the vans, and Congress is soon heading back to the relative safety of DC. Yet, after all the fuss and bother, they're...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog, Financial Reform
The reappointment of Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve -- cleverly timed to defuse the news of burgeoning federal deficits -- was preordained. The "markets" demanded it, and as James Carville noted, when the markets speak, presidents listen. (Carville,...
