Obama Housing Plan: New & Different or Same Old, Same Old ???
Despite the fact that it was the lead story on the NYTimes website all day Friday, and then followed on Saturday by a “News Analysis” calling it “Bold”,
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A Carbon Index for Financial Markets?
EconomyWatch.com reader and Worldwatch Institute (worldwatch.org) publisher from Brazil, Eduardo Athayde, has sent us this thought provoking piece:
Bank of America To Forgive SMALL Amount of Principal on Housing Debt
While far from anything like what a) NEEDS to be done or b) COULD be done,
Obamacare Proponents Claim It Lowers Income IN-Equality – IF ONLY ;-)
Generally, David Leonhardt, Economics Correspondent, tries to be analytical and unsparing in his columns.
Generally, David Leonhardt, Economics Correspondent, tries to be analytical and unsparing in his columns.
But in this Economic Scene piece that has gotten a lot of play on the Times’ website – In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality – I think there’s a lot of wishful thinking.
Confused NYTimes Asks READERS To Guide Them Thru Obamacare
Obamacare bill so complex, NON-tranparent, NYTimes ASKING READERS a) what provisions will go into effect right away & b) what provisions THEY think worth noting ;
Three Sensible Articles About China via Jim Fallows
While I don’t like everything that Jim Fallows does, he is one of the rare people – not just Westerners – who really seems to have a grasp of the complexity that is today’s China. [br]
A PROGRESSIVE Consumption Tax ???
In general, one of the great advantages of a graduated income tax system is its fairness: the more one earns, the more one pays.
In general, one of the great advantages of a graduated income tax system is its fairness: the more one earns, the more one pays.
The Führer Cult:Germans Cringe at Hitler’s Popularity in Pakistan : By Hasnain Kazim in Islamabad, Pakistan
The influential German daily Der Spiegel is full of interesting and provocative analysis about political economic matters global and, especially at this moment, European,
The influential German daily Der Spiegel is full of interesting and provocative analysis about political economic matters global and, especially at this moment, European,
NYTimes’ Bob Herbert on Economic Catastrophe for Individual US States
Along with Frank Rich and Paul Krugman – who, despite our occasional disagreements, we still think is the best economics columnist in the mainstream US media, bar none –
Drug Makers / Doctors/ Hospitals Definite Beneficiaries of Obamacare
Well, it’s hardly a surprise, given the way the TBTF banks have “cleaned up” under Obama,
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