online.wsj.com - 1/23/2009
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Obama said it appears Congress is on target to approve a massive new stimulus package by Feb. 16.
online.wsj.com - 1/26/2009
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online.wsj.com —
The stimulus bill currently steaming through Congress looks
like a legislative freight train, but given last week's...
analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, it is more accurate to think of it as a time machine. That may be the only way to explain ...
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The Stimulus Time Machine
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The Democrats Must be Crazy
GayPatriot —
... economic plan. With the federal government haven’t just shelled out $700 billion in the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the bailout, one would think that responsible stewards of the federal Treasury would not seek an even greater amount in additional government spending.
But, they are, even as the federal deficit reaches record levels, both in dollar terms and a a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP). The stimulus bill the president says “is still on track.”
Megan McArdle wonders why some on the left opposed to TARP ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/16/2009 — Here’s the summary circulating on the Hill . Whatever one thinks of this, keep in mind that the process of getting a bill through the Senate is all-but-certain to make things worse.
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 2/18/2009 — President Obama signed his $787 billion recovery package into law on Monday with a statement that it would "set our economy on a firmer foundation."
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heritage.org 1/26/2009 — The $800 billion economic "stimulus" bill may be more appropriately called the "Obama debt plan." It will, after all, dump $6,700 per household of new debt into the laps of our children and grandchildren. Whether it will actually stimulate the economy ...
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 ...
How the stimulus might help Illinois -
chicagotribune.com 2/3/2009 — WASHINGTON — If the Obama administration's economic stimulus package is passed and signed into law, the first way most working people in Illinois would feel it would be a small increase in their take-home pay, through a tax cut of about $10 per week ...
Boehner’s Take on the Stimulus Plan —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/23/2009
Jonathan Weisman reports on the White House.
File it under comments you probably regret.
After a bipartisan group of congressional leaders met with President Barack Obama , Republicans emerged to hail the tone of the meeting but continued to ...
Obama: Recovery to be multi-pronged —
CNN Political Ticker 1/23/2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – President Barack Obama offered more detail on his plan to restore economic growth Friday, saying the economic stimulus program being debated in Congress is just one of at least three parts to his recovery plan.
In a ...
Obama's week 1: Sales pitch begins —
CNN Political Ticker 1/23/2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – After a call for "bold and swift" action on the economy in his first moments as president on Tuesday, President Barack Obama got right to work, maneuvering to reach a bipartisan agreement on his sweeping economic ...
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