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The Congressional Attack on Fact
Saturday Reads Around the Internets - Swear Words Are Now Appropriate
Too Interconnected To Fail
Your Feet's Too Big!
The Trade Agreement You Never Heard About - TPP
Saturday Reads Around the Internets - Romney is Bush Redux
Friday Movie Night - Frontline's Money, Power & Wall Street, Part II
Jamie Dimon Eats $2 Billion Worth of Crow
JPMorgan Say What?
Austerity vs. Growth: A False Choice
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NAR Existing Home Sales Increase 3.4% for April 2012
The Congressional Attack on Fact
The Trade Agreement You Never Heard About - TPP
Too Interconnected To Fail
Proposed new Unemployment Rate number- U7
Do Subsidies Work?
Your Feet's Too Big!
Bank of America's "Settlement" Will Cause More People to Lose Their Homes
Manufacturing ISM PMI 54.8% for April 2012
NAR Pending Home Sales Up 4.1% for March 2012
The Congressional Attack on Fact (3)
More Dire Reports Show the American Labor Force is in Huge Trouble (6)
Too Interconnected To Fail (5)
Your Feet's Too Big! (2)
Displacing American Labor Through Foreign Guest Worker Visas (19)
Jamie Dimon Eats $2 Billion Worth of Crow (8)
Trade Deficit for March 2012 - $51.8 Billion, Little Effect on Q1 GDP Revision (2)
JPMorgan Say What? (2)
Job JOLTS - There are 3.4 Official Unemployed per Job Opening in March 2012 (6)
Productivity & Costs for Q1 2012 Show Manufacturing Workers are Really Getting the Squeeze (2)
Saturday Reads Around The Internets - It Could Have Been Worse
Do you think the Obama administration is looking like an extension of Bush?
Layoffs at 16 Month High and Surge 60%
Death to SOPA
Saturday Reads Around The Internets - Inflation, China, Exchange Rates, and Outrage
Saturday Reads Around The Internets - I'm Mad As Hell, Why Aren't You?
Do You Support Occupy Wall Street?
Killing Us Quickly - Ryan's Medicare Proposal
Strategic Default as the New American Dream
Housing Starts & Building Permits for August 2010 - 10.5%
Tax Cuts for the Rich Do Not Generate Jobs
Delusions of Normalcy 2011 - Dismal Scientists Cheer Up
Foreclosure Starts Jump 28%, Sales Up 29% in January 2012
How to Dump Your Muni By 60 Minutes
VAT or Value Added Tax is Getting a Look in D.C.
ADP Employment Report Only 38,000 Private Sector Jobs Added in May 2011
Time for a Bailout for the American Workforce
The war on the middle class
The Privatization of Everything
House discusses 401k/IRA confiscation
Instapopulist
NAR Existing Home Sales Increase 3.4% for April 2012
April 2012 State Employment Statistics Show Little Real Improvement on Jobs
Industiral Production Pops Up 1.1% on Utilities for April 2012 - Auto Manufacturers on Fire
CPI 0% for April 2012 on Dropping Gas Prices
Retail Sales Increase 0.1% for April 2012
Trade Deficit for March 2012 - $51.8 Billion, Little Effect on Q1 GDP Revision
Job JOLTS - There are 3.4 Official Unemployed per Job Opening in March 2012
Consumer Credit Increased 10.2% in March 2012
Productivity & Costs for Q1 2012 Show Manufacturing Workers are Really Getting the Squeeze
Alternative Unemployment Rate is 16.6% and Other Scary Unemployment Statistics
more
Naked Capitalism
Obama and Schneiderman to Double Size of Non-Existent Task Force
For Starters, Reinstate Glass-Steagall
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Paul Krugman
Godwinization
How Overvalued Is Southern Europe?
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Eyes on Trade
Analysis: today's WTO ruling bad for dolphins, consumers... and even the WTO
Public Citizen Condemns WTO Attack on U.S. Dolphin Protection Efforts
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Calculated Risk
Lawler: Comments on Existing home sales and FHA REO
Existing Home Sales: Inventory and NSA Sales Graph
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Zero Hedge
The Facebook Maginot Histogram - Here Is How Morgan Stanley Just Gave Up
Facebook Plummets To All Time Lows As EUR Exodus Crushes Commodities, Slams Stocks
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Manufacture This
"American Jobs Matter" Amendment passes U.S. House of Representatives
National security update: counterfeit military products continue to come in from China
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Economy in Crisis
Why Obama Should Be Attacking Casino Capitalism
Ron Paul: We Must Get Out of the WTO Immediately
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The Baseline Scenario
Jamie Dimon Should Resign From the Board Of The New York Fed
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The Big Picture
Plenty of Blame to Share for Faulty Facebook IPO
Will America Ever Recover From The Housing Crisis
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Trade Reform
Trade Negotiators Trying to Limit “Buy American”
Press Release from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Rahall Fights to Create American Transportation Jobs
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Beat The Press
I Am Out of Here! (for now)
David Brooks Gets Private Equity Wrong for the Team
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Econbrowser
State Dependence and Fiscal Multipliers
Fiscal stimulus
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EPI
Latinos and the good jobs crisis
Don’t let Congress fast-track another tax cut
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Iacono Research
It’s Ben Bernanke!
The Gold/Greenspan Convergence
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Tax Justice Network
Indian government white paper on "black money" is strange
Links May 21
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Angry Bear
David Cay Johnson and taxed by the boss
Bain Capital vs. Berkshire Hathaway**
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New Deal 2.0
For Capitalism to Survive, Crime Must Not Pay
April 12: The Buffett Buffet
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Pension Pulse
CPPIB Returns 6.6% in Fiscal 2012
Beyond Grexit?
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Steve Keen's Debtwatch
Predicting the “Global Financial Crisis”: Post Keynesian Macroeconomics
The Howard Roarke of Economics
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Financial Armageddon
Losing the Buzz
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Do you think the United States is long on Economic problem descriptions and short on real solutions?
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Yes - I rarely hear solutions discussed and the ramifications thereof analyzed
Yes - We need a government agency devoted to Trade, economic interests like the CBO
No - The problem is....few even understand there is a problem
No - The solutions are there, but promptly taken out and shot by Lobbyists
No - What problem? There is no stinkin' problem. Let me sell you real estate along the Denile.
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The "profit" above all else is obvious nowadays
22 hours 9 min ago
don't let facts get in the way
1 day 2 hours ago
Good enough for the Founding Fathers - not for these dolts
1 day 2 hours ago
forced labor
2 days 1 hour ago
Customer Deposits probably used
2 days 2 hours ago
Whalen is always interesting
2 days 4 hours ago
Facebook IPO
3 days 19 hours ago
Have we finally taken a turn? Farcebook seen as sham finally?
3 days 19 hours ago
At this point it's obvious the pols. and regs don't care for 99%
4 days 20 hours ago
Media coverage will end soon - they have Facebook IPO to cover
1 week 2 hours ago
this story has legs
1 week 3 hours ago
jeeze
1 week 18 hours ago
These people know exactly what they're doing-they don't care
1 week 19 hours ago
Update: The Struggle to Make a "Decent" Return
1 week 22 hours ago
For play-by-play, see Jon Corzine/MF Global script and Murdoch
1 week 1 day ago
Ina R. Drew is on her way out
1 week 1 day ago
What works
1 week 2 days ago
Excellent Analysis, clearly
1 week 3 days ago
pretty rare I criticize government statistics
1 week 4 days ago
"Mistakes were made, I forget, blame my subordinates"
1 week 4 days ago
here we go, SEC opens "investigation" on JPMorgan Chase
1 week 4 days ago
JOLTS, 3.4 people per job opening does not include drop outs
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