tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/21/2009
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America now has a full-blown industrial policy. But it's an odd one -- a combination of lemon socialism and taxpayer-financed regulation. Consider GM and Chysler. To what purpose are our taxpayer dollars being put as we bail them out? Apparently only to help them survive, even as pale shadows of ...
How Should We Talk About Industrial And Manufacturing Policy?
ourfuture.org 8/4/2009 — The phrase “industrial policy” sounds so Walter Mondale, 1970s, smokestacks and brick factory old-fashioned. I suspect the subject turns people off, eyes glaze over, hands reach under the table for iPhones and Blackberries… But this is SO important. ...
Industrial Production Declines, Capacity Utilization at Record Low
calculatedriskblog.com 6/16/2009 — The Federal Reserve reported : Industrial production decreased 1.1 percent in May after having fallen a downward-revised 0.7 percent in April. The average decrease in industrial production during the first three months of the year was 1.6 percent. Manufacturing output moved down 1.0 percent in ...
Hillary vs the Industrial Revolution
chicagoboyz.net 7/22/2009 — Saw a snippet of an interview last night in which Secretary Clinton was saying that: When America (and also Europe, presumably) built all those coal plants and other fossil-fuel-based infrastructure, we just didn’t know what a bad thing ...
Industrial Conceits
corner.nationalreview.com 3/31/2009 — The Obama administration has it figured out.
What the country really needs, apparently, is an automobile industry that is rolling out highly fuel-efficient cars, from the cleanest, safest, unionized factories in the world, made by highly paid ...
White House issues new language on "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy
americablog.com 5/1/2009 — Policy change, or poor editing? In a move that many people I've spoken with see as a shift in policy, and a backward step from a clear campaign promise that was reiterated during the first days of January of this year, the White House has changed the ...
Barack Obama Industrial Average: Rising
swamppolitics.com 3/24/2009 — by Mark Silva
The stock market is up, in terms relative to its most recent terrifying trench, and so is President Barack Obama's approval rating, which also bottomed out a while back.
The president would like people to think he follows neither ...
Sotomayor Was Right: Appellate Judges Do "Make Policy"
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/2/2009 — At Duke Law School back in 2005, Judge Sonia Sotomayor said that "the court of appeals is where policy is made." Conservative pundits have immediately jumped on these words as proof that Judge Sotomayor is an "activist" who will legislate her own ...
Conservatives Go After Sotomayor For 'Policy' Quote
politics.theatlantic.com 5/26/2009 — Conservatives are jumping on Sonia Sotomayor's 2005 comment that appeals courts are "where policy is made." American Future Fund criticized Sotomayor for the comment in a statement this morning and posted a video of Sotomayor making it to a new ...
Clinton Announces New Aid for Pakistan —
NYT > Politics
The United States pledged an additional $110 million in aid on Tuesday, reflecting the deepening crisis in the Swat Valley and the administration’s growing confidence in Pakistan’s efforts to combat the Taliban.
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