Economics

Time for Tax Hikes

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eisenhower, Debt, Pelosi, Truman, National Debt, Dwight Eisenhower, Economics, Taxes, Obama, Roosevelt, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

Unless we rebuild the economy it will not generate enough money to create the revenue stream to pay our debts. Why are we so resistant to raising taxes?

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Is the Long Tail Shorter Than We Thought?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 01.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Longtail, Newmedia, Art, Economics, Anderson, Distribution, Digital, Web, Media, Music, Obscure Culture, New Media, Netflix, zip.ca, Long Tail Theory, Media News
Hugh McGuire

If everyone can cheaply produce media -- music, text, video, sound, and photos -- then much of it is going to be of little interest to most of us.

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Recession Trend Tracker: What's Hot, What's Not

Jill Keto | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Working and Families, Mompreneurs, Video, Family, Economics, Economy, Working Mothers, Trend Forecasting, Saving Money, Recession, Mortgage Crisis, Greater Depression, Investing, Inflation, Finance, Jill Keto, Business News, Women in Business, Personal Finance, Internet Business, Business News
Jill Keto

Check back weekly for my Recession Trend Tracker. If Us Weekly and The Economist had a love child, it would look like this.

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How About a Smart-Plus-Greedy-Equals-Stupid Tax?

David Quigg | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: The Ascent of Money, Finance, Economics, Derivatives, J.S.G. Boggs, Bailout, Lawrence Weschler, Nobel Prize, Money, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Niall Ferguson, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Business News, Financial Crisis, Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, Economy, Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, Michael M. Weinstein, Business News
David Quigg

How about a smart-plus-greedy-equals-stupid tax? We will save it for the absolutely inevitable moment in the not-so-distant future when Wall Street will forget the lessons of 2008.

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Recession Trend Tracker: What's Hot, What's Not

Jill Keto | Posted 12.28.2008 | Style

Read More: Working and Families, Mompreneurs, Video, Family, Economics, Economy, Bernard Madoff, Working Mothers, Trend Forecasting, Saving Money, Recession, Mortgage Crisis, Greater Depression, Investing, Inflation, Finance, Jill Keto, Business News, Women in Business, Personal Finance, Internet Business, Style News
Jill Keto

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Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Private Jets, White House, Autoworkers, Economics, 350 Billion, Private Jet, Bailouts, Jets Corporate Jet, Christopher Cox, Gail Vida Hamburg, Charles Schumer, Income, Bush, Krugman, Automakers, Big Three, Auto Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Politics, Jet, Bailout, Treasury, Paul Krugman, Big 3, Tarp, Union, Detroit, Comparison-Shopping, 700 Billion, Sec, Gm, Investment Banks, Bruce Raynor, Executive, Compensation, Car Companies, Chrysler, Nobel Prize, Schumer, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Ceo, Salary, Banks, Fox News, Unions, Senate, Republicans, Ponzi, Business News
Chris Weigant

If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.

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Recession Trend Tracker: What's Hot, What's Not

Jill Keto | Posted 12.21.2008 | Style

Read More: jill_keto, Investing, daniel_keto, Economics, Finance, Economy, saving_money, Financial Crisis, trend_forecasting, practical_chic, personal_finance, mortgage_crisis, greater_depression, Recession, Currency, U.S. Dollar, Auto Bailout, Bernard Madoff, Real Estate, Style News
Jill Keto

Check back weekly for my "In and Out" chart following the most fabulous, ridiculous, and relevant events in the economy. ...

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Recession Trend Tracker: What's Hot, What's Not

Jill Keto | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: jill_keto, Investing, Economics, Finance, Economy, saving_money, trend_forecasting, practical_chic, mortgage_crisis, personal_finance, greater_depression, Recession, Business News
Jill Keto

Check back weekly for my "In and Out" chart following the most fabulous, ridiculous, and relevant events in the economy. ...

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Jimmy V and the Closed Wallet

Don McNay | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Jimmy V, Economics, Charity, Economic Crisis, Espn, Cancer Research, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Recession, Consumer Confidence, Jim Valvano, Prostate Cancer, Financial Crisis, Cancer, Confidence, Personal Finance, Business News
Don McNay

I'm not the only person thinking twice about giving money to charity. Or about spending money. Most people have the same kind of hesitation that I have. And this compounds the financial crisis problem.

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President-Elect Obama, Some "Unconventional" Economic Thinkers To Consider

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Thea Lee, Ron Blackwell, David Morris, Lori Wallach, Economics, Working Life, Joel Rogers, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dean Baker, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

President-elect Obama has publicly stated that he wants "unconventional" thinking among the people who give him advice on the economy. Fantastic. S...

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Exports Alive and Well

Jeremy Haft | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

Read More: US Exports, Economics, China, Recession, Business News
Jeremy Haft

Today's Washington Post tried to snuff the one bright spot in the economy -- U.S. exports to China. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

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Cerberus and Big 3 Automakers Beg for Billions as Media Industry Whimpers and Shrinks

Jack Myers | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Big 3 Car Companies, Chevy, Economics, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Media Industry, Ford, Business News
Jack Myers

In the past two decades billions of dollars have flowed from publicly traded media corporations to a few Wall Street profiteers who have returned little value to the industry or the economy.

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A Funeral for the Phillips Curve

Michael Pento | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business

Read More: The Federal Reserve, The Economy, Unemployment, John Hilsenrath, Phillips Curve, Economics, Wall Street Journal, Business News
Michael Pento

Investors who are banking for a silver lining to this recession may be disappointed by both a continued increase in the unemployment rate, yet stubbornly high inflation.

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The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Economics, Economy, Henry Waxman, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Salvation Boulevard, George Bush, Objectivist, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Alan Greenspan, Jesus Christ, Bubble, Real Estate, Crash, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...

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States Wrestle With Diversifying Energy Portfolios

Green Inc. | Kate Galbraith | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Efficiency, Environmental Policy, Economics, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Emissions Reduction, Energy Economics, Alternative Energy, Green News

State renewable energy targets have an extraordinary number of variations - and sometimes loopholes. Take the example of California, which is workin...

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Some Change Requires Deep Pockets

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 12.04.2008 | Style

Read More: Money, Economics, Children, Humor, Economy, Coins, Dollar Bills, Government, Kids, Public Opinion, Buying Power, Cash, Style News
Jeffrey Shaffer

I'd like to conduct a poll in major cities, actually stop people on the street and have them count their cash, to find out how many one-dollar bills an average American is carrying around.

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Weekly Audit: It's a Recession, Stupid (and what that means) Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Nber, Unemployment, Wall Street, Economics, Global Economy, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Recession, National Bureau of Economic Research, Economy NewsLadder, The Media Consortium, Newsladder, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News
The Media Consortium

We are clearly out of options that match up with Friedman's monetarism, indicating that public policy has nowhere left to turn except direct government spending on economic support.

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Obama, Bill Clinton and the Media "Center"

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Lloyd Bentsen, Bill Clinton, Economics, Stab in the Back, Pundits, Lani Guinier, News Media, Lurch to the Left, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mickey Kantor, Nafta, Doug Henwood, Journalism, Barack Obama, Warren Christopher, Populist, Gays in the Military, Ron Brown, The Center, Media News
Norman Solomon

The fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Obama must hew to "the center" if he knows what's good for his presidency.

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Obanomics

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Obama, Robert Reich, Economics, Barack Obama, Obama Economics, Obanomics, Obama Economy, Business News
Joshuah Bearman

Obama fundamentally trusts markets, but believes that they make grievous errors (I'll say!), and that those errors must at times be aggressively corrected. Is that a new idea? If so, then no wonder we're screwed.

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Why I Don't Like Economists

Peter Schwartz | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Warren Buffett, Economics, Political Science, Economy, Financial Crisis, Harvard, Gre, Trading, Business News
Peter Schwartz

They're all great guys, smart and amusing and passionate about their work. So what's not to like about economists? In a word, hubris. Economists fly too close to the sun of science.

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The President and the Planet, On a Budget

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 11.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Population, Politics, Global, Poverty, President Obama, Military, Defense, Equity, Economics, Climate, Disease, Sustainability, Presidency, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20 will become the most important leader of a species that has exploded in just six generations from a total popu...

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Taxing The Rich Hurts The Middle Class

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Wealthy, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Money, 401k, Economy, Retirement, Middle Class, Property Taxes, Recession, Economics, Economic Crisis, Trickle Down Effect, Working for the Wealthy, Entrepeneurship, Owning a Business, Business News
Grant Cardone

This is not a trickle down argument but basic economics, as it is impossible to penalize any one group without affecting every person in the group.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Man Versus Machine

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Computes, Machines, Stock Market, Economics, Finance, Alan Greenspan, Politics News

The recent economic meltdown has renewed the salience of the question of the relationship between human beings and computers. A survey of various expe...

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Toil and Trouble
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Ads, John McCain, Ken Duberstein, Health Policy, Economics, Palin Pro-American Areas, Restributionist, The Economy, Stephen Colbert, Joe Biden, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, 2012, Diva, Wack Job, Conservatives, The Media Consortium, Rachel Maddow, Ohio, Laurence Eagleburger, Ethanol, 2008 Presidential Campaign, The Constitution, Mccainiacs, Home News
The Media Consortium

NOTE: After you click a link, click the title of the item to get the full text or video. This week finds our war hero, on Old Hallow's Eve, having fi...

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Give Mayors a Role in the Obama Administration

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mayors, John McCain, Politics, Urban Policy, Election '08, Washington Post, Transition, Cities, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Economy, Economics, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Providing mayors a platform for influence, exchange, and coordination would capitalize on the economic power of metro areas while restoring urban policy to its proper place in national discourse.

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