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Stimulating ourselves to death
Crisis coddling Fairfield County Weekly by Phil Maymin Despite rising unemployment, massive layoffs and a stock market that has lost half of its value from its peak, we are not in a crisis. There is... ...
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... ...
Don’t bet on Obama reining in defense spending
Cato Institute by Benjamin H. Friedman 02/18/09 Many Americans believe that Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress will lower defense spending and restrain the militaristic foreign policy... ...
A reality check for Obama in Afghanistan
Christian Science Monitor by Walter Rodgers 02/17/09 History may not repeat itself, but all too often it recycles mistakes. In 1961, before the Vietnam War became full-fledged, former Gen. Douglas MacArthur... ...
The big stimulus
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 01/30/09 Puttin g aside Bizarro economics, for now, and my wholesale rejection of same, there is one way we can stimulate the economy with a mighty injection of cash into... ...
Defense doesn’t need stimulus
Cato Institute by William D. Hartung and Christopher Preble 01/28/09 As the Obama administration and Congress move forward with a multifaceted economic-stimulus package with a price tag of hundreds of... ...
Sharpest Consumption Drop Since 1980 Pushes GDP Negative
Dean Baker, Truthout: "A surge in defense spending added 0.86 percentage points to gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Consumption spending fell at a 3.1 percent annual rate in the third quarter, which... ...
AIG used billions from Fed but hasn't said for what
The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September... ...
Arms For The Poor
By Jeff Huber Those poor kids at the Pentagon. They receive more funding than the rest of the world's military establishments combined, but it's just not enough. Pentagon officials have prepared a new... ...
Bush Authorizes Record Defense Budget
Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Last week, Bush signed the 2009 Defense Authorization Act, allowing $611 billion to be spent this fiscal year on defense. Though the number was not a surprise - the money in the... ...