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Cornel West among the crickets | Michael Tomasky
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
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Scott McLemee is one of my country's greatest literary critics. You've got to read this paint-peeler of a job he did on Cornel West's new book...A little taste: If sketchy in other regards, Brother West is never anything but expansive on how Cornel West...
Tags: Cornel West, United Kingdom, London, Postmodernism, Pragmatists, Lawrence Summers
White House's Summers: tackling unemployment urgent
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility Tackling high U.S. unemployment is a crucial challenge but the solution will not be delivered overnight, a top White House economic adviser said on Monday. "I think recessions like the one we're suffering now have very substantial costs," said Lawrence...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Fellows of the Econometric Society, Recessions, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Punahou School alumni, Labor, Lawrence Summers
One Third of the Nation
On January 20, 1937, in his Second Inaugural Address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance...
Tags: Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal, Obama, economy, Great Depression, Harold A. Ickes, Roosevelt&, Henry Wallace, allnews, Lawrence Summers, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Timothy Geithner, Employment, Unemployment, Business cycle, Social Security, Labor, Labor economics, Harry Hopkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins
Arianna Huffington: Will unemployment disaster be Obama's Katrina?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House. The members of the Obama administration may not be attending...
Tags: Obama White House, Barack Obama, unemployment rate, Katrina, unemployment disaster, Federal Reserve, Tim Geithner, outside experts, Bush, main street, New York City, Timothy Geithner, Politics, Unemployment, Presidency of Barack Obama, Labor economics, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Labor, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Lawrence Summers
Wall Street seems to be giving Obama cold feet
New York City :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility A year ago, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; today, the reigning doctrine in Washington appears to be: ''Be afraid...To be sure, ''centrists'' in the US Senate have hobbled efforts to rescue the economy. But the evidence suggests that in...
Tags: Obama Administration, Barack Obama, wall street, New York City, Lawrence Summers, Unemployment, New Deal, Great Depression, Political positions of Barack Obama, Presidency of Barack Obama, Late-2000s recession
Thousands of Jobs Scammed or Created
New York City :: NY :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility In Unicornland. According to the Recovery.gov website—a website that the Obama administration has spent $18 million “stimulating”—millions have been spent and hundreds of jobs have been created in heretofore unknown areas of America: 30 jobs using $761,420...
Tags: obama administration, Madison Dearborn Partners, Eric Massa, D.E. Shaw Group, Obama, New York Times, Cohocton, Rahm Emanuel, New York City, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Lawrence Summers, Presidency of Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni
Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility The candidate for change once promised to take on the powerful banking interests but is now doing their bidding. Finally, a leading Democrat, in this case Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, has a good idea for monitoring the Wall Street fat...
Tags: Neal Wolin, Clinton, New York Fed, Federal Reserve, Barack Obama, Hartford Insurance Co., Hartford Insurance Corp., general counsel, Robert Rubin, wall street, New York City, Timothy Geithner, Christopher Dodd, Lawrence Summers, Neal S. Wolin, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Council on Foreign Relations, Subprime mortgage crisis, Group of Thirty, Politics, Business Finance
Middle class tax hike Obama's "read my lips No new taxes" That will guarantee a one term Presidency!
Remember when Obama was running for President he said if you make under $250,000 you will not see a tax increase. No increase in gas tax, sales tax income tax capital gains tax, nothing. Remember Daddy Bush's read my lips no new...
Tags: Alan Greenspan, Economic Council. possible tax increase, Lawrence Summers, middle class, Timothy Geithner
Summers applauds stimulus success
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility US President Barack Obama's $787bn (£482bn) stimulus package is working, top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers has insisted. And although unemployment is a "major area of concern", Mr Summers said rising joblessness does not prove that the...
Tags: substantial distance, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Larry Summers, stimulus plan, economic advisor, white housing, Obama Administrations, economic adviser
Obama Presses Health Care Overhaul
Green Bay :: WI :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama took his push for health care to the U.S. heartland Thursday, calling the current system unsustainable and vowing not to tolerate "endless delay" before acting to fix it. Hosting a townhall-style meeting, Obama stuck to his support...
Tags: Barack Obama, Obama Touts Public Plan, president barack, lawrence summers, insurers companies, Intermountain Healthcare, private insurers, economic adviser, health plan, director lawrence
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