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"ALEC Rock"

nebris wrote in the_recession Aug 01, 2012 10:04

Produced by Mark Fiore (http://www.markfiore.com) and the Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org), which is the creator of ALECexposed (http://www.alecexposed.org), ( Read more... )

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The Republicans are unfit to govern

nebris wrote in the_recession May 27, 2012 17:30

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/27/1094768/-The-Republicans-are-unfit-to-govern
Laurence Lewis for Daily Kos

One of this biggest economic stories of the past week was this:
The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a “severe ( Read more... )

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January Jobs Data Spikes Recovery Ball In The End Zone

cieldumort wrote in the_recession Feb 03, 2012 12:38

Released On 2/3/2012 8:30:00 AM For Jan, 2012 PriorConsensusConsensus RangeActualNonfarm Payrolls - M/M change200,000 135,000 110,000 to 189,000 243,000 Unemployment Rate - Level8.5 %8.5 %8.3 % to 8.7 %8.3 %Average Hourly Earnings - M/M change0.2 %0.2 %0.0 % to 0.3 %0.2 %Av Workweek - All Employees34.4 hrs34.4 hrs34.3 hrs to 34.4 hrs34.5 hrs ( Read more... )

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This Is The Self Destructive Cupidity of The Corporate State At Work

nebris wrote in the_recession Oct 03, 2011 20:05

Coming Apart: Inertia, Not Progress Defines the Decade After 9/11 ( Read more... )

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Warren Buffett's Op-Ed

cieldumort wrote in the_recession Aug 15, 2011 17:21

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
By WARREN E. BUFFETT
Published: August 14, 2011

OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most ( Read more... )

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Roubini: "capitalism could self destruct"

nebris wrote in the_recession Aug 14, 2011 00:12

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The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression

nebris wrote in the_recession Aug 07, 2011 11:25

Published on Thursday, August 4, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
by John Atcheson
Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a “starve the beast” campaign - by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can.

Starving the beast ( Read more... )

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Krugman: What recovery? "Companies step up layoffs"

nebris wrote in the_recession Jul 21, 2011 17:14

by Gaius Publius on 7/21/2011 04:47:00 PM

Paul Krugman has the goods, in a simple chart that says it all. This is one of the broadest, and perhaps the truest, measures of unemployment, the Employment-to-Population Ratio. Here's the latest:

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Rachel on Osama and money: "The goal of Al Qaeda was to bleed America to the point of bankruptcy"

nebris wrote in the_recession May 04, 2011 14:12

by Gaius Publius on 5/04/2011 12:48:00 PM

Fascinating. Rachel Maddow has a "Who was Osama?" report that's eye-opening. Not that any of this is new, but little of it is reported in this, the Tom Clancy phase of the bin Laden termination story.

Put differently, we want to be watching an action movie, so that's what we're fed. But ( Read more... )

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Eliot Spitzer & Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs

cieldumort wrote in the_recession Apr 17, 2011 00:59

"This report confirms our worst fears..."

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