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The Trade Deficit is a Political Deficit
CBO Bombshell - Our Congress Will Cause a Recession in 2013
China Mainlined Into U.S. Debt
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
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CBO Bombshell - Our Congress Will Cause a Recession in 2013
The war on the middle class
Durable Goods New Orders Increase 0.2% for April 2012
Unemployment Claims Stagnant - 370,000 for the Week of May 19th, 2012
China Mainlined Into U.S. Debt
The Trade Deficit is a Political Deficit
Obama Promises to Create 2.5 Million Jobs, but in What Countries?
Greece Pushed Further into Economic Contraction by New Bail Out
2011 Annual Trade Deficit is 3.7% of U.S. GDP, China Goods 2% of U.S. GDP
Bank of America's "Settlement" Will Cause More People to Lose Their Homes
2011 Annual Trade Deficit is 3.7% of U.S. GDP, China Goods 2% of U.S. GDP (3)
China Mainlined Into U.S. Debt (2)
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)
CPI for December 2010
Debbie Downer S&P Crashes European Denial Party
Student Debt up 25% from a year ago, while 33% of workers below age 35 live with parents
Ralph Gomory Testifies Before Congress
Head of IMF Arrested for Attempted Rape
PPI for March 2011
Burning Ben
CBO Bombshell - Our Congress Will Cause a Recession in 2013
Saturday Reads Around The Internets - Public Unions & Homeless Beauty Queens
Rejecting a Job Applicant based on their Credit Score - Discrimination?
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
Durable Goods New Orders Increase 0.2% for April 2012
Unemployment Claims Stagnant - 370,000 for the Week of May 19th, 2012
New Home Sales Increase 3.3% for April 2012
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
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Naked Capitalism
Ellen Brown: Is Cooperative Banking the Wave of the Future?
BAILOUT: Former Bailout Watchdog Neil Barofsky to Release Tell-All Account Of Bush/Obama Administration Banking Policies
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Paul Krugman
Enter, Laffering
Was Greed Good?
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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
European Gloom and Look Ahead: Consumer sentiment
Record Low Mortgage Rates and Refinance Activity
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Zero Hedge
News That Matters
What Do FX Traders Know That Stock Momos Don't?
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Manufacture This
70 Years of the United Steelworkers
Romney Day One Would "Make China Play by the Rules."
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Economy in Crisis
Class Warfare vs Trade Warfare
Do We Have a Trojan Horse in the White House?
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The Baseline Scenario
Jamie Dimon And The Legitimacy Of The Federal Reserve System
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The Big Picture
Why Facebook Is Almost as Greedy as Bernie Madoff
10 Thursday PM Reads
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Trade Reform
Changing to WTO’s “Made in the World” Labeling Would Harm Americans
1,000 dogs sickened by jerky pet treats made in China
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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
Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Action (or Not)
Dispatches XXII: Wisconsin and US Employment Growth Compared
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EPI
Getting to a better Fed is about more than just Jamie Dimon
Does just arguing over the debt ceiling damage recovery? Maybe
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Iacono Research
More Interesting Gold Stories (from 2005)
Fun With the Public Debt
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Tax Justice Network
Helsinki seminar and major new article on transfer pricing
Links May 23
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Angry Bear
Supreme Court faces pressure to reconsider Citizens United
All in one day of reporting...
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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
Inside CPPIB's $153 Billion Portfolio?
Swiss Pensions Dumping Eurozone Bonds?
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Steve Keen's Debtwatch
WSJ – Strain on the U.S. Economy
Predicting the “Global Financial Crisis”: Post Keynesian Macroeconomics
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Financial Armageddon
Almost Laughable
Universal Truth
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Andrei Vyshinsky
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