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Supplements the "Futures" Twine. Covers a wide range of issues, from technology policy to health care policy to foreign policy
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Focus on near(er)-term issues, i.e., within the next five (5) years. Long(er)-term issues are covered by the "Futures" Twine, http://www.twine.com/twine/futures.
Focus on near(er)-term issues, i.e., within the next five (5) years. Long(er)-term issues are covered by the "Futures" Twine, http://www.twine.com/twine/futures.
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How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus, and Why He MustThe Administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment situation would become by Fall. As a result, it low-balled the stimulus -- settling for a plan that, while avoiding even worse job losses, didn't go nearly far enough. Obama has ...
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Mishel on double-digit unemploymentAfter rising for more than two-and-a-half years, the country’s unemployment rate crossed into double-digit territory in October with a jobless rate of 10.2%. This provides another sign of the severity of the current downturn, the very long road we face back to full employment and the urgent need ...
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At 10.2%, October’s unemployment is a wake-up callThough the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) now has GDP growing again, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ October employment report found that the jobs situation nevertheless continues to worsen. Unemployment rose dramatically to 10.2% in October, the highest rate since ...
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Let A Hundred Theories Bloom - Joseph Stiglitz et alThe economic and financial crisis has been a telling moment for the economics profession, for it has put many long-standing ideas to the test. If science is defined by its ability to forecast the future, the failure of much of the economics profession to see the crisis coming should be a cause ...
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The Great Contraction of 2008-2009A popular view among economic forecasters and market bulls is that “the deeper the recession, the quicker the recovery.” They are right – up to a point: immediately after a normal recession, economies do, indeed, often grow much faster than usual over the ensuing twelve months. Unfortunately, ...
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275% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve | Danger Room | Wired.comIf we get the conservatively dreaded "food police", don't be too fast to blame it all on "liberal do gooders". The military apparently has a vested interest too. Then of course, there's the insurance companies and private businesses for who the obese may pose an "unacceptable risk [health ...JDP added 36 hours ago
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2Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York | U.S. | ReutersIf anyone deserves to get sick with Swine Flu it is these pigs that gave the whole world a financial epidemic!JDP added 2 days ago
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2U.S. spends most, but health quality lags - Yahoo! NewsHey tea-bagged-dummies! That great private (monopolized) health care system you are defending is responsible for "rationing care" (including with "death panels" who decide which patients with cancer will DIE before they can fight though the insurance bureaucracy for the care they need!), AND ...JDP added 2 days ago
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2US Senate Democrats push through climate bill - Yahoo! NewsThe party of "NO" (I love my oil and coal company sugar daddies) will continue to delay until we are all roasting and breathing tar.JDP added 2 days ago
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2The Fed may crack down further on big Wall Street bonuses - Nov. 5, 2009It's WAY past time ... what it's REALLY time for is some take back of what they stole and some put-up in jail of those thieves!JDP added 2 days ago
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