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The Crisis That Could Bring Down Obama
The Year of Cockeyed Optimism "The foundations of our economy are strong" By Mike Whitney Consumer spending is down, housing is in a shambles, and industrial output dropped at an annual rate of 20 percent,... ...
Economy Shrinks at Fastest Pace in 26 Years
Citi Gets Nationalized, Don't Call It Nationalization The Government has reached a deal to buy 36% of Citigroup's common stock. The United States will now be the largest shareholder of the troubled bank... ...
Obama’s budget includes new bailout, $1.75 trillion deficit
Obama to spend $200b on war in 2009 President Barack Obama intends to ask the US Congress for more than USD 200 billion to cover the country's war spending. http://www.pres stv.ir/detail.aspx?id=8683 8&sectionid=3510203... ...
Consumers Cut Food Spending Sharply
Little-known agency that insures pensions of 44 million workers braces for recession fallout The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. already has an $11 billion deficit that seems sure to grow larger as Corporate... ...
We’ll never be happy consumers again
AlterNet by James Howard Kunstler 02/10/09 The argument about ‘change’ during the election was sufficiently vague that no one was really challenged to articulate a future that wasn’t, materially, more-of-the-same.... ...
The rise and (almost) fall of America's banks
GM, Chrysler May Face Bankruptcy to Protect U.S. Debt General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC may have to be forced into bankruptcy by the U.S. government to assure repayment of $17.4 billion in federal... ...
Obama’s Keynesian mistake
Cato Institute by Ike Brannon and Chris Edwards 01/29/09 Federal policymakers are moving ahead with a huge $800-billion stimulus plan to return the U.S. economy to growth. Will it work? Decades of macroeconomic... ...
Let banks fail, says Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz
The Government should allow every distressed bank to go bankrupt and set up a fresh banking system under temporary state control rather than cripple the country by propping up a corrupt edifice, according... ...
New Jobless Claims Jump More Than Expected
Christopher S. Rugaber, The Associated Press: "New claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, the government said Wednesday, while consumers cut back on their spending for the... ...
US Economy Shrinks as IMF Warns of Great Depression
Agence France-Presse: "The US economy shrank in the third quarter, official data confirmed Tuesday, as the IMF's top economist warned of a second Great Depression offering no respite from relentless gloom... ...