Archive for January, 2010

New stimulus jobs numbers for Maryland, fresh ammo for campaign attacks – Baltimore Sun (blog)

New stimulus jobs numbers for Maryland, fresh ammo for campaign attacks
Baltimore Sun (blog)
stimulus program, even as economists praise its impact and President Barack Obama calls it a big reason the nation avoided a second Great Depression.

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Drifting Toward Catastrophe: A Seven-Headed Beast – truthout


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Drifting Toward Catastrophe: A Seven-Headed Beast
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As we slide further into a second Great Depression this year and next, that anger is going to spill out in more and more ugly and, likely, more violent ways

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This week’s political quiz – The State

This week's political quiz
The State
Chairman Bernanke and a few others came up with a game plan to avert a complete financial meltdown that would have led to a second Great Depression.

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Your Opinion: ‘A voice crying in the wilderness’ – Tifton Gazette

Your Opinion: 'A voice crying in the wilderness'
Tifton Gazette
It was Wall Street's “greed,” enabled by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, that has almost put us in our second “Great Depression.” What made us a great nation

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Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz – The Guardian


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Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
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a hands-off approach to economic management by the scale of the crisis – has prevented a great recession from turning into a second great depression.

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A Colossal Failure Of Governance: The Reappointment Of Ben Bernanke – istockAnalyst.com (press release)


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A Colossal Failure Of Governance: The Reappointment Of Ben Bernanke
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debt to GDP ratio from 40 percent (a moderate level) towards 80 percent (a high level) in a desperate attempt to ward off a Second Great Depression.

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Majority supports Bernanke’s second term as chairman – Rochester Business Journal

Majority supports Bernanke’s second term as chairman
Rochester Business Journal
If Ben Bernanke had not done what he did to keep our economy moving, we would be in the second Great Depression instead of a large recession.

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Readers Write for Friday, Jan. 29 – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Readers Write for Friday, Jan. 29
Minneapolis Star Tribune
It was FDIC, Fed, and BUSH ADMINISTRATION responses that helped keep us out of the second Great Depression. While I disagreed with a lot of their actions

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Obama unveils 33-billion-dollar jobs package – AFP


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Obama unveils 33-billion-dollar jobs package
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and the swift and aggressive actions that made it possible," arguing that his economic policies have staved off the threat of a second Great Depression.

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Better GDP, Better Presidential Prospects? – CBS News (blog)

Better GDP, Better Presidential Prospects?
CBS News (blog)
argues in his most recent New York Timespiece that "the only thing that's keeping us from sliding into a second Great Depression is deficit spending.

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