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Art Market: Recession, Shocks & Hope

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:37:03 +0000

I still continue to visit art galleries and museums in New Delhi and Chandigarh (or wherever I am in the world) as a matter of habit. I am one of those ‘art for art’s sake’ type. I am neither an art expert or a buyer. But I do discover vibrational links with certain ...

tsteels2 posted 18 hours ago from themoderatevoice.com

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How the recession is affecting Thanksgiving.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:50:59 +0000

While many Americans will be sitting down to a hearty Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, too many others will go hungry. With the current recession and increasing unemployment, the number of Americans who lacked enough food hit a record high in 2008 , and charities can’t keep up. A look at ...

News Hounds found this 41 hours ago on thinkprogress.org

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U.S. Economic Growth Falls Short of Earlier Figures

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:05:19 +0000

Whoops! The bad news in this bulletin is that the U.S. economy didn’t grow at quite the rate—3.5%—during the period from July to September that the Department of Commerce previously said it had. The good news: It still grew, albeit at the whittled-down pace of 2.8% during ...

The Hollywood Liberal found this 2 days ago on truthdig.com

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Can we blame Main-Street yet?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:29:04 +0000

My girlfriend is mad, I mean really mad. Apparently she has seen a side of me she never thought was there. Anyone hearing her talk would think that I caused her bodily harm or cheated on her, but no her anger was brought on after a conversation about the recession – more specifically banks ...

tsteels2 posted 5 days ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Recovery's Phantom Districts

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:34:59 +0000

Description A revised look at recovery.org's faulty tracking of stimulus dollars. $6.4 billion was given to congressional districts, which do not exist. Reviews Shared by: bmcmorris Categories Politics & History > US Government Reports Tags Recovery Data , Recession , Stimulus , Congressional ...

The Corner on National Review Online found this 10 days ago on docstoc.com

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Nowhere to Hide

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:26:47 +0000

Check this out.

True North - Pointing Minnesota in the Right ... found this 9 days ago on shotinthedark.info

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Obama’s October Deficit LARGER Than Bush Deficit For ENTIRE YEAR of 2007

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:46:00 +0000

More Hope & Change– Team Obama was off on their October budget predictions by nearly $20 billion. The deficit for the first month of the 2010 fiscal year reached $176 billion. (It must be Bush’s fault, right?) The Wall Street Journal reported: The federal government ...

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 13 days ago on gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

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How the Recession’s Affecting Immigration

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:33:10 +0000

With U.S. unemployment at a 26-year high Americans will be feeling the economic downturn for some time. Immigration experts are seeing global signs of the recession in major shifts in U.S. immigration trends, especially at the high amd low ends of the skills spectrum. Here are the ...

TPM Election Central found this 7 days ago on tnr.com

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Giving Geithner the Boot?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:04 +0000

I dunno. Even if we got him canned, do you think they’d hire anyone much different to replace him? A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there’s “growing consensus” among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down. Rep. Peter ...

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Video: Geithner urges banks to lend

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:18:20 +0000

At a Washington event dedicated to small business, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged banks to step up to the plate and lend more money in order to keep the economic revival growing.

MediaMan posted 8 days ago from marketnewslive.blogspot.com

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Obama: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:15:34 +0000

BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, Obama ...

Gateway Pundit found this 9 days ago on reuters.com

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Whose Recession Is It, Anyway?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:01:02 +0000

Polls show that the public is increasingly blaming Democrats for the economy. Will they drag Obama down?

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Unreal. Biggest Spender in History Says Too Much Debt Could Fuel Second Recession

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:02:23 +0000

Unreal. This is infuriating. After spending trillions of US taxpayer dollars on his record stimulus bill that produced bogus results Obama says that too much debt could result in a second recession. Barack Obama’s budget deficit in October was greater than George Bush’s budget ...

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A Little Dash of Facts to Inform Your Reaction to the National Debt

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:24:00 +0000

One certainly has to love all the hyperventilating going on in the wingnuttosphere over today's revelation that the national debt climbed past $12 trillion. Yes, that's a very bad, scary, unsustainable number but it doesn't tell anywhere near the whole story. Click on this image to see how ...

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Art Market Gets a Boost from Sotheby’s, Warhol

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:06:06 +0000

Sotheby’s enjoyed a windfall on Wednesday, when the auction house’s New York HQ nearly doubled its estimated high of $67.9 million for its contemporary art bid-fest, in which Andy Warhol’s works figured prominently among the biggest selling successes of the evening. READ ...

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