usnews.com - 1/15/2009
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It looks like the number is headed higher.
time.com - 1/9/2009
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How do you stimulate a stumbling economy? For
decades, the consensus among economists was that this was...
a job best left to the Federal Reserve and to such automatic fiscal stabilizers as unemployment insurance. Passing laws in Congress to cut taxes ...
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Will Obama's Stimulus Package Work?
washingtonpost.com - 1/10/2009
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Congress, Obama Likely to Be at Odds on Stimulus Package
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Boehner on the stimulus: “Oh. My. God.”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... with deliberations, Hoyer assures us, but I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. The longer this drags on, the more ornaments get put on the tree. Exit quotation: “This product may undershoot the mark.”
Obama Stimulus Consigns US to ‘Banana Republic’ Territory
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... There is great pressure in Congress right now to expand the destimulus beyond the $825 billion that Democrats have already proposed. Smart analysts are predicting that it will rise beyond $1 trillion. How much spending is enough? ...
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outsidethebeltway.com 11/11/2008 — Concerned about future growth the Chinese government is about to implement a stimulus package:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — China unveiled on Sunday what it described as a “massive” economic stimulus package worth over half a ...
Let's talk about the stimulus package.
althouse.blogspot.com 1/29/2009 — "[S]ome news organizations have been less than diligent in telling you that other respectable economists are deeply skeptical of the idea, flatly oppose it or favor competing proposals such as additional tax relief. The University of Chicago's Gary ...
The Too-Small Stimulus
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/8/2009 — At the time it was proposed, many liberals thought the stimulus plan was too small. Or to be more precise, I think what we thought was that it was imprudently small. A fiscal expansion that turned out to be “too big” would waste some ...
A Second Stimulus Package?
politicalwire.com 3/11/2009 — Paul Krugman -- who is arguably the most influential pundit today -- makes the case that the economic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama last month was "too small and too cautious." He notes the latest data "confirm those worries -- ...
What's in the stimulus package for Arizona?
azcentral.com 2/11/2009 — Jobs The White House estimates that the stimulus, over the next 24 months, would create or preserve 74,300 Arizona jobs. More than nine out of 10 of those would be private-sector jobs. Unemployment relief The more than 200,000 Arizona workers who ...
Obama to Republicans on Stimulus Package: I Won:
volokh.com 1/25/2009 — True, but Obama won by, among other things, promising a net decrease in federal spending. Here he is during the third debate: "what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose...
Remaining TARP funds released —
First Read 1/15/2009
From NBC's Ken StricklandBy a 52-42 vote (52 senators supporting it, 42 opposing it), the Senate approved the release of the second half of the $700 billion in the Troubled Assets Relief Fund.
The "no" vote represent those supporting the release of ...
Congress advances emergency economic aid plans —
Reuters: Politics 1/15/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Congress took steps on Thursday to give President-elect Barack Obama the weapons he wants to fight a worsening economic recession by advancing legislation to provide nearly $1.2 trillion in emergency ...
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