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    Ugly Job Losses

    December 5, 2008

    The unemployment outlook and accumulating job losses make today’s economic news truly awful. Here is the New York Times article on the report: U.S. Loses 533,000 Jobs in November The point is that we are just gathering steam. Last month’s loss of over 500,000 jobs is appalling. It is the eleventh straight monthly loss. Not […]

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    A Trillion Dollars?

    December 4, 2008

    Some of us might consider a trillion dollars to be handy cash. Apparently that’s the amount it’s going to take to get the economy back awake from its current comatose state. Bloomberg is reporting a growing consensus that we will have to pump at least $500 million a year into the economy to offset the […]

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    Comments on Obama’s Cabinet

    December 1, 2008

    These are the comments I sent to the TPM blog vis complaints about Obama not hiring enough ‘progressive’ people for his administration: Part 1: This cloud of dust being raised by people critical of Obama is both funny and annoying. He isn’t in power yet. Frankly the anger at his lack of progressive appointments is […]

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