Archive for September, 2010

Holt or Sipprelle? Look (and learn) before you leap – The Times of Trenton – NJ.com

Holt or Sipprelle? Look (and learn) before you leap
The Times of Trenton – NJ.com
the same folks whose feckless derivative vehicles and reckless manipulations have brought the US to the brink of a second Great Depression.

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TARP’s Legacy: Good or Bad? – FOXBusiness


Boston Globe
TARP's Legacy: Good or Bad?
FOXBusiness
While it is widely credited with helping prevent a second Great Depression, TARP became despised by voters as a symbol of out-of-control government spending
Housing market needs another shot of stimulus moneyChicago Journal
Analysis: Will TARP hatred give way to revisionist history?Reuters

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Happy Hour Roundup – Washington Post (blog)

Happy Hour Roundup
Washington Post (blog)
The debt Obama has added was the minimum necessary to prevent a second Great Depression, which would have added more to the debt than any short-term

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Housing market needs another shot of stimulus money – Chicago Journal

Housing market needs another shot of stimulus money
Chicago Journal
US Congress enacted the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as the banking crisis threatened to plunge the nation into a second Great Depression.

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Republicans guilty of mass murder on job creation – Washington Post


Boston Globe
Republicans guilty of mass murder on job creation
Washington Post
They PROMISE to follow policies that they failed with before and PROlMISE to do things that will lead us straight into a second great depression.
DNC Leader Blasts Republican PledgePersonal Liberty Digest
DNC Chairman Tim Kaine Condemns Cornyn, Republican Plan to Repeal Wall Street PR Newswire (press release)

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Democrats Urge Caucus To Confront Shadowy Independent Groups – Huffington Post

Democrats Urge Caucus To Confront Shadowy Independent Groups
Huffington Post
reduce government spending, and thus extend the recession into the Second Great Depression, just as they did in the 1930s. And the Dems do nothing to

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Embarrassed By Beck? – The Atlantic

Embarrassed By Beck?
The Atlantic
The debt Obama has added was the minimum necessary to prevent a second Great Depression, which would have added more to the debt than any short-term

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Analysis: Will TARP hatred give way to revisionist history? – Reuters

Analysis: Will TARP hatred give way to revisionist history?
Reuters
Some economists, such as Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff, say TARP, along with other government bailout efforts, prevented a second Great Depression.

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Lies of the Tea Party – Truthdig

Lies of the Tea Party
Truthdig
entire tea party movement was founded on false assumptions about the economic program that probably saved the country from a second Great Depression.

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The stimulus absolutely worked; we now need targeted fiscal jobs stimulus – The Hill

The stimulus absolutely worked; we now need targeted fiscal jobs stimulus
The Hill
It's hard to prove a negative, but the evidence is also that the stimulus helped avoid a second Great Depression, even if it hasn't fulfilled all our hopes.

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