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AFL-CIO wants TARP funds to target small businesses not Wall Street.
Rather interesting to see big labour asking for help to small businesses and repeating the claim of organisations representing small businesses that they create most of the jobs in the US economy. The AFL CiO was a big supporter of the stimulus...
Tags: AFL-CIO, small business, US economy, stimulus package, TARP, Richard Trumka
Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 . Robert Reich Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Posted: November 17, 2009 07:40 PM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index digg Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us...
Tags: bbc news. china, biodun iginlabbc news. obama administration, US economy
Roubini (Dr. Doom): The Worst is yet to come for the Unemployed
Roubini is famous for having predicted the financial crisis some time before it happened. This article maintains that joblessness will get even worse and the recovery will be weak. Many jobs will be outsourced as well. His prescription for...
Tags: Nouriel Roubini, Economic stimulus program, US unemployment, US financial crisis, US economy, Discouraged worker, Labor economics, Unemployment, Employment, job losses
Is there another economic bubble forming?
This article analyses Nouriel Roubini's view that a huge bubble is being formed because of low interest rates. This leads businesses to borrow and buy various assets causing prices to rise and making huge profits. Roubini is not claiming that the...
Tags: Nouriel Roubini, Economic bubbles, US economy, Inflation, Financial crises
Paul Samuelson: Economics is now the Hopeful Science.
While what Samuelson calls the Friedman-Hayek idiocies may have taken a beating as capitalist financial and other corporations had to be rescued by the government rather than let the market perform its vaunted creative destruction free...
Tags: Paul Samuelson, US economy, economics
Hunger in the US Heartland: Reflections from our Food Pantry
The US Department of Ag's figures in May broke a record: 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program of aid to low-income people. Now one out of every nine Americans qualifies for "food stamps." That's an increase of...
Tags: River City Food Bank, CCC Food Pantry, United States Department of Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food stamps, US economy, poverty, hunger
Improve the US Economy: Legalize Unauthorized Immigrants
In a report released last week, the Cato Institute calculates the benefits that would flow to the U.S. economy from a comprehensive immigration reform that grants legal status to unauthorized immigrants already living in the United...
Tags: Cato Institute, comprehensive immigration reform, US economy, U.S. Applied General Equilibrium, Mary Giovagnoli, Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Immigration Policy Center, US Congress, illegal immigration
School for Scoundrels
Sunday, August 9, 2009 by Phil Regal, Special Correspondent for Biodun Iginla, BBC News, Minneapolis and London This review can take us back to thinking about what a science of human ecology must become. Human behavior and its impact on the planet...
Tags: bbc news. biodun iginla, human ecology, Paul Krugman, Phil Regal, US economy
U.S. Payroll Losses Slow, Unemployment Rate Declines (Update3)
Friday, August 7, 2009 Share | Email | Print | A A A By Shobhana Chandraand Biodun Iginla, BBC News and the Economist Aug. 7 -- The pace of U.S. job losses slowed more than forecast last month and the unemployment rate dropped for the first...
Tags: bbc news. biodun iginla, jobs, US economy
Nassim Taleb: The monkey on the US Economy's Back is DEBT
My takeaway from the CNBC interview of Nassim Taleb, the bestselling author of "The Black Swan" is that US needs to break its 'recession vow' of 'Till DEBT do US Part!' in order for its economy to recover from the shape it NOW is in. But is the Leadership...
Tags: Nassin Taleb, monkey, US Economy, D E B T, Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, recession, US, Leadership, video, engaging, myVox
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