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The Private Sector Stimulus

It should be obvious by now that someone or something needs to jumpstart this economy. Normally that would come in the form of a government...
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Obama jobs speech viewership off by over 25% - down 11 million

President Barack Obama calls for a speech in front of a joint session of Congress (both the House of Representatives and members of the Senate in...
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British Austerity Not Keeping Up with American Growth

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  • February 1, 2011
The American and British governments are engaging in a gigantic macroeconomic experiment in their differing fiscal approaches to the recession. The...
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California High-Speed Rail Receives Redirected Funds

Earlier this month, I reported on the request by California’s two senators to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to redirect to California...
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California High-Speed Rail: Only 49 Little Hoovers Left

Back in late 2008, Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economic columnist for the New York Times, famously coined the phrase “50 Herbert...
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Better Uses for the Bush Tax Cuts for the Top Two Percent

As a matter of pure economics, an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the upper 2% of income earners doesn’t make much “cents” or...
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Obama's Second Act: Keynes Now, Reagan Later

Did you notice? President Obama launched his reelection campaign last week, and he wasn’t even in the country. The first leaks from his...
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Interior Dept. approves largest solar project ever on public land in California

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today chose a desert area near Blythe in Eastern California for the sixth, and largest, solar energy production...
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Interior Dept. approves first solar projects on U.S. public lands in California

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today approved the first large-scale solar energy projects ever to be built on U.S. public lands. The two solar...
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City of LA stimulus funding of $111 million has created only 55 jobs

On Thursday Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel released a 40-page report on how federal stimulus funds have been spent in the City of Los...
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