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News Analysis: A Crisis Trumps Constraint
News Analysis: A Crisis Trumps Constraint
Economists and politicians across the political spectrum say Congress should spend whatever it takes to rescue the economy. >
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Obama Is Still Trash-Talking The Economy, And The MSM Is Helping - Why?
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... News AnalysisA Crisis Trumps Constraint By EDMUND L. ANDREWS Economists and politicians across the political spectrum say Congress should spend whatever it takes to rescue ...

Nearly 700,000 Jobs Lost in December; Far Worse Than Expected
Ace of Spades HQ — ... this nation for 20 years as long as it buys him some traction for 2012. Other presidents have this same fact driving them, of course. They too are, selfishly but understandably, looking their own reelection prospects and not the mess they'll leave ten or fifteen years down the road. But most presidents face considerable checks on such impulses. In this crisis-all-the-time environment, this Greatest Depression Since the World Was Young era, economists are now claiming that Obama may, and should, spend like there's no tomorrow, because, as they claim, perhaps there ...

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