Tag: economy
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August 09, 2007 03:18 AM EDT --
I propose we put a one dollar tax on each gallon of gasoline sold in the United States and one hundred percent of it goes to health care.
The united states is one of the cheapest places to buy gas --- . . . more
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January 10, 2008 10:37 AM EST --
OK, here's the blue economy scenario for 2008. Housing prices keep falling. Credit stays tight. Consumers choke. In retailing, restaurants, travel and more, jobs vanish. In real estate, construction . . . more
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May 21, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
Today's post is from Nan Mooney , author of Not Keeping Up With Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class . Mooney is also the author of I Can't Believe She Did That: . . . more
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January 07, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
On the road to New Hampshire and Election '08, a sharp economic populism is in the air in a way it hasn't been since long before Ronald Reagan. The idea that the rich are getting richer unfairly . . . more
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April 26, 2007 08:35 AM EDT --
A new study says the nation's finances are in much worse shape than Washington is letting on, and big new taxes are headed our way. On Point spoke about this study with Kent Smetters, one . . . more
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February 28, 2008 10:27 AM EST --
The economy has been dominating the headlines all week. Prices are soaring. Consumer confidence is plummeting. The housing market is imploding.
Yesterday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke . . . more
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May 22, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
Suddenly, even for people who don't follow oil futures and Saudi production estimates, the lid seems to have blown off energy prices.
For the first time, oil prices barreled past the $135 dollar . . . more
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March 01, 2008 03:13 PM EST --
Have you decided who you are going to vote for yet???? It is gratifying to see so many people turning out after so many years of voter-apathy fueled and media-blitzed campaigning. Has anyone noticed that . . . more
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June 13, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
Congress took up a big energy bill yesterday. You’ll be hearing a lot more about it. But it’s not likely any time soon to ease the pain of thirty, forty, fifty, even sixty dollars for . . . more
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July 11, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
For much of the 20th century, tough lines were drawn around the world between capitalist and Communist countries and economies. Now, Communism is all but gone, and some economists are saying it's time . . . more
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January 09, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
China's economy is red-hot. In 20 years, maybe 15, it could be bigger than America's. And its stock market is over the moon.
Investment guru and China bull Jim Rogers says Americans should . . . more
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June 18, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
In the great explosion of globalization that hit the world in the 1990s, former World Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers was boldly front and center, cheering on global markets as, ultimately, Bill . . . more
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May 19, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
The rich aside, it's not an easy time out there, economically, for Americans today.
Recession, insecurity, and inflation hit everyone but thirty-something journalist Nan Mooney sees a generational . . . more
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February 12, 2008 10:21 AM EST --
Over time, real food prices go up and they go down. But right now, we're at the end of a long period of cheap food. Globally, prices are soaring. And experts disagree over when --if . . . more
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September 27, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
The big G.M. wobble this week over workers and wages and whether its factories will be built in this country was just one more wake-up call. The old world is gone and the new one is going to require a . . . more
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November 15, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
Recent months have brought a triple threat to the economy: housing market slump, a credit crunch, and oil prices pushing 100 dollars a barrel.
There's no shortage of bearish voices on . . . more
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July 21, 2008 09:39 AM EDT --
Budweiser Beer – the Great American Lager – is Belgian now.
In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, foreign companies are going global. And with the dollar so weak, US companies look . . . more
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July 14, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
With frightening stakes for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve are stepping in with a plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the backers of nearly half of American mortgage debt. . . . more
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June 25, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
Private equity is a fancy name for a simple operation. Big dealmakers round up billions, buy companies, strip them down, add debt and resell. Done right, it can add efficiency to the US economy. Done right . . . more
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March 25, 2008 11:00 AM EST --
There's been a little relief in the stock markets at the beginning of this week, but what a wild ride it's been lately. Oodles of money have been lost in markets and real estate, and nobody . . . more
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