Flickr/tiseb
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For the first time, the Federal Reserve has explicitly linked interest rates to unemployment. Rates will remain near zero “at least as long” as unemployment remains above 6.5 percent and if inflation is projected to be no more than 2.5 percent.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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Flickr/Kim
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I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won’t do it again. Don’t believe that for an instant.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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Flickr/bedfordk
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Washington has a way of focusing the nation’s attention on tactical games over partisan maneuvers that are symptoms of a few really big problems. But we almost never get to debate or even discuss the big problems because the tactical games overwhelm everything else.
Posted on Dec 11, 2012
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Flickr/StockMonkeys.com
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Friday’s jobs report demonstrates an economy that’s still moving in the right direction but way too slowly, which is why Washington’s continuing obsession with the federal budget deficit is insane. Jobs and growth must come first.
Posted on Dec 9, 2012
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Flickr/Alessandro Farese
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If we had a functional government America would address three “cliffs” posing far larger dangers to us than the fiscal one.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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Democrats, here are eight principles to guide you in the coming showdown over the fiscal cliff.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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