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Obama one year later: A legacy of lies and broken promises
OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader 11/03/09 It’s been a year since the president was elected, and he’s already piled up an impressive list of lies and broken promises. The broken promises include... ...
Americans' Income and Spending Drop, Despite Stimulus
Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor: "Household disposable income stagnated in September, and spending fell 0.5 percent, the government reported. The figures call into question the strength of... ...
Black Tuesday and a Return to Big Government
By Mike Whitney October 29, marks the 80th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the event which most historians point to as the beginning of the Great Depression. On Black Tuesday, traders... ...
Bernanke solves the wrong deficit
Our Future Blog by Eric Lotke 10/19/09 Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recognized today that America’s trade deficit played a central role in the global economic crisis. Then after he recognized... ...
Obama then and now
Corporate corruption killing America Nolan Chart by Joel S. Hirschhorn 09/14/09 [T]h e health insurance industry and others have successfully corrupted Congress and brainwashed much of the population... ...
Memo to Bernanke: "No Wage Growth; No Recovery"
By Mike Whitney It should be fairly obvious by now that US consumers are undergoing a generational shift and will not be able to lead the way out of the recession as they have in the past. Nor will they... ...
It’s time to get real about the recession
Spiked by Rob Killick 08/04/09 At the moment, the impression that one gets from public discourse is that the recession was a relatively painful dream, a nightmare from which we are now waking up. After... ...
Recession Worse Than Prior Estimates, Revisions Show
The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed. http://www.bloomb erg.com/apps/news?pid=2060 1087&sid=aNivTjr852TI... ...
The Future Is Deflation
Crystal Ball Gazing By Mike Whitney The US consumer, long considered an inexhaustible resource, is tapped out. Without job security and access to easy credit consumer spending will slow, prices will... ...
When Will The Recovery Begin? Never
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "In a recession this deep, recovery doesn't depend on investors. It depends on consumers who, after all, are 70 percent of the US economy. And this time consumers got... ...