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January 14, 2009
In December alone, 640,000 jobs reportedly disappeared. This number only slightly inflated by all the elves laid off at North Pole Enterprises on the 26th. There’s a secret reason for these losses, never mentioned in the media.
When I was a kid,…
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January 14, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Reporting on the recent fall in America's trade deficit, you quote Barclay's Capital economist Julia Coronado's claim that "It's still a pretty sizable trade deficit,…
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January 13, 2009
Change we can all believe in? How about the same song and dance, but just a different day?In opening remarks at her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign…
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January 13, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Bob Herbert endorses a tax on financial transactions because, in his view, that's where the money is ("Where the Money Is," Jan. 12). And he even credits Willie Sutton…
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January 13, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Bob Herbert endorses a tax on financial transactions ("Where the Money Is," Jan. 12). Specifically, he wants a very small tax ("say 0.25 percent") on each of the…
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January 12, 2009
In 1981, Ronald Reagan announced in his first inaugural address “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
President-elect Barack Obama announced just the opposite on Jan. 8. Obama said, “It…
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January 12, 2009
Economists have been worried that all the bailout spending might lead to inflation. That hasn’t happened yet, but President-Elect Obama’s job predictions have increased 64 percent in a few short weeks.
The media have been reluctant to call Obama on…
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January 12, 2009
Editor, The Washington Times
Dear Editor:
Joseph P. Carrigan is understandably disturbed that President-elect Obama predicts doom if a new "stimulus" plan isn't enacted (Letters, January 11). Alas, Mr. Obama is simply following his profession's…
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January 9, 2009
Nobel laureate on arcane trade matters, former Enron adviser, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is at it again.
In his latest Times column ("The Obama Gap"), he chides President-elect Barack Obama for not being ambitious enough in his…
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January 8, 2009
While economic stimulus fever is sweeping the nation one cable news channel at a time, some are skeptical it won’t do anything – because it isn’t large enough.
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Science and the most cited…
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