Sourced from Washington Post Byte Morning Fix A majority of Americans believe that former President George W. Bush is more responsible than President Obama for the current economic problems in the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Fifty-four percent of respondents said that Bush was more to blame while 29 percent put [...]
Posts Tagged ‘*Economy’
1 Jul
Romney ‘makes it worse’ with obvious falsehood
Sourced from Washington Monthly July 01, 2011 8:00 AM By Steve Benen Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has focused most his message on attacking President Obama’s economic record. To that end, the former governor has repeated a specific phrase over and over again: “He made it worse.” “He” in this sentence is the president, and [...]
1 Mar
More Than 300 Economists Repudiate Right-Wing “So Be It” Economics
Sourced from OurFuture.org By Isaiah J. Poole March 1, 2011 – 2:24pm ET The stream of economic experts who are denouncing the budget slashing that the House of Representatives did last month has just turned into a flood. Today the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for American Progress jointly released a statement signed by [...]
23 Jan
The State of the Union
Center for American Progress 1/20/11 11:00 PM CAP In his State of the Union address on January 25, President Barack Obama is likely to call upon Congress to work with him to continue the progress of restoring our nation’s economic prosperity by creating good private-sector jobs. Nothing is more important to sustaining our exit from [...]
3 Jan
Judging Obama’s Economics
Washinhgtonpost.com ROBERT J. SAMUELSON Monday, January 3, 2011 “Just as scholars continue to debate how close we came to nuclear conflict during the Cuban missile crisis, they will continue to debate just how close the American financial system and economy came to all-out collapse in the six months between September of 2008 and April of [...]
1 Jan
10 Ways Right-Wingers Will Try To Wreck Any Economic Recovery
Alternet.com To keep conservatives from enacting policies that will kill a nascent economic recovery, progressives will have to organize against these top 10 economy killers. December 27, 2010 | Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood’s ability to recover from the recession [...]
20 Oct
The Reagan Test: Are We Better Off Than Two Years Ago? Indisputably, Yes.
Campaign for America’s Future The Reagan Test: Are We Better Off Than Two Years Ago? Indisputably, Yes. Yesterday, the White House released another sharp “White House Whiteboard” video featuring economic advisor Austan Goolsbee clearly explaining how the Recovery Act and additional legislation successfully blunted the recession and put us back on the path of positive [...]
19 Aug
Ten Common Sense Principles for a New Economy
Friday 06 August 2010 by: David Korten | YES! Magazine | Op-Ed I find hope in the fact that millions of people the world over are seeing through the moral and practical fallacies underlying the Wall Street economy and—by contributing to the creation of a New Economy—are taking charge of their economic lives. Here are ten common [...]
5 Jul
The Tea Party Is Dangerous: Dispelling 7 Myths That Help Us Avoid Reality About the New Right-Wing Politics
Monday 05 July 2010 by: Adele M. Stan | Alternet | News Analysis Few things are more confounding to liberals and progressives than the rise of the Tea Party movement, and the media’s infatuation with it. Just as we breathed a sigh of relief with the election of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th president, after eight [...]
14 Jun
The Bad Logic Of Fiscal Austerity
The Bad Logic Of Fiscal Austerity – Paul Krugman Blog So, one more time: here’s an attempt to put together some key arguments about why the rush to fiscal austerity is deeply misguided. Let me start with the budget arithmetic, borrowing an approach from Brad DeLong. Consider the long-run budget implications for the United States [...]
