Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy — For At Least The Fourth Time In Five Months Huff Post William Alden & Shahien Nasiripour First Posted: 11-20-10 09:01 AM | Updated: 11-20-10 01:55 PM NEW YORK — For at least the fourth time since June, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke publicly urged Congress to combat the [...]
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Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy — For At Least The Fourth Time In Five Months
Posted in Ben Bernanke, Economic Crisis, Fed Chair, federal reserve, tagged Ben Bernanke, Business News, Economic Crisis, federal reserve, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Policy, House Financial Services Committee, Joint Economic Committee, Monetary Policy, Quantitative Easing, Senate Banking Committee on November 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Risk Of Double-Dip Recession?
Posted in Double Dip Recession, Economic Crisis, tagged David Rosenberg, Double Dip Recession, Double Dip Recession Odds, Economic Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Mohamed El-Erian, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Shiller, Second Recession, Third World America on August 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy First Posted: 08-16-10 01:19 PM | Updated: 08-16-10 01:51 PM Buried amidst the increasingly gloomy economic news of the last few weeks — which includes stubbornly high unemployment, rising foreclosures and a grim outlook from the Fed, among other factors — is a growing sense of [...]
Exxon Valdez: How That Disaster Destroyed The Economy 20 Years Later
Posted in BP, British Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Valdez, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, tagged BP, BP History, BP Iran, BP Mossadegh, BP Oil Spill, Brian o'Neill, British Petroleum, Credit Default Swaps, Economic Crisis, Exxon Valdez, Green News, JP Morgan, Lawy Exxon Valdez, Obama Cap, Oil Cap, Oil Spill Bp, Oil Spill Cap, Valdez Bp on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Exxon Valdez: How That Disaster Destroyed The Economy 20 Years Later Huff Post- Jason Linkins First Posted: 06- 8-10 05:55 PM | Updated: 06- 8-10 09:36 PM Hopefully, by now, you’ve already read the oil spill apocalypse pieces penned by our own Ryan Grim — who documented “BP’s Long History Of Destroying The World” — and Sam [...]
Insane Republicans Insane Budget Plan
Posted in Economic Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Republicans, tagged Budget, Centrists Obama Budget, Congressional Budget Office, Economic Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Budget Deficit, Glenn Beck, GOP Budget, House Republicans, John Boehner, Michele Bachmann, Obama Budget, Obama Budget Cuts, Obama Budget Fight, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh on April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It only makes sense that a party currently being wagged by fringe crazy people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Michele Bachmann would release its alternative budget on April Fools’ Day. Not only does the Republican plan freeze discretionary spending for five years in the midst of a recession which, by most accounts and proved [...]
Dead Banks And Wall Street Bailouts??
Posted in Bailout, Banks, Economic Crisis, Economy, tagged Banks, Economic Crisis, Economy, Recession, Wall Street on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This Crisis Is Way Bigger Than Dead Banks and Wall Street Bailouts By James Galbraith, Washington Monthly. Posted March 23, 2009. Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than anyone has so far admitted. Barack Obama’s presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or failure on the [...]
Tent Cities Across America
Posted in Economic Crisis, Economy, Shantytown, Tent Cities, tagged Economic Crisis, Economy, Home News, Hooverville, Illegal Encampments, Living In Tents, Return Of Shantytowns, Shantytown on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cities Deal With Surge In Shantytowns HuffPo/New York Times | JESSE McKINLEY | 03/25/09 New York Times: FRESNO, Calif. — As the operations manager of a outreach center for the homeless here, Paul Stack is used to seeing people down on their luck. What he had never seen before was people living in tents and lean-tos [...]
Cheney’s Excuse For Economic Crisis: ‘Stuff Happens’
Posted in Economic Crisis, Economy, Richard B. (Dick) Cheney, tagged Bush Administration, Bush Cheney Record, Cheney 'Stuff Happens', Conservative Failure, Dick Cheney, Economic Crisis, Economy, Federal Budget, Poverty, Unemployment, Uninsured on March 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Download | Play Download | Play Cheney has a ready excuse for the economic debacle: ‘Stuff happens’ Crooks and Liars- By David Neiwert Sunday Mar 15, 2009 5:00pm Interviewed by John King on CNN’s State of the Union this weekend, former vice president Henry F. Potter Dick Cheney wasn’t really able to tell us why [...]
McConnell Bumbles When Asked For GOP Alternative To Obama’s Budget (Video And Transcript)
Posted in Economic Crisis, Economy, George Stephanopoulos, Mitch McConnell, President Obama, Republicans, Video, tagged Economic Crisis, Economy, George Stephanopoulos, Obama’s Budget, President Obama, Republicans, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Transcript, Video on March 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
McConnell Bumbles When Asked For GOP Alternative To Obama’s Budget: We’re ‘Getting Down In The Weeds’ Think Progress- By Amanda Terkel at 12:00 pm Since President Obama unveiled his budget last month, Republicans have been relentlessly attacking his comprehensive proposals. Last week, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) said that Obama “should be focusing on the ‘economic [...]
Katrina Vanden Heuvel To Karl Rove: ‘It’s Laughable For You To Talk About Fiscal Responsibility’ (VIDEO)
Posted in Economic Crisis, Economy, Karl Rove, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Video, tagged bush, Economic Crisis, Economy, fiscal responsibility, Karl Rove, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Republicans, Vanden Huevel, Video on March 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Vanden Huevel rips Rove: ‘It’s laughable for you to talk about fiscal responsibility.’ Think Progress- By Satyam Khanna at 2:17 pm Today on ABC’s This Week, Karl Rove slammed the cost of President Obama’s new budget. The Nation’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel quickly fired back at Rove’s newly-discovered sense of fiscal responsibility, observing that Rove and [...]













