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Is Government Health Care Plan Effective or a Mess? »
Posted by: WikiMap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Currently 18% of our GDP is dedicated to health care costs. These will soar according to the President’s economic advisor to astronomical levels in ...
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Big Banks Are Repaying $50 Billion. Is The financial Boom Just Ahead? »
Posted by: WikiMap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
This is good news for the taxpayer as well as the economy. It suggests that banks are healing. Geitner said that the Treasury may need ...
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41% of American GDP is in Debt: Will it be 82% after 10 years? »
Posted by: WikiMap 5 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The price of oil is up over the last several months as the US dollar index falls to its lowest level in months—in fact ...
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What Contributes to Our Economy & GDP? »
Posted by: WikiMap 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
While a lot of attention is focused on big corporations being the engine behind our economy, small business is responsible for a large portion of ...
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Krugman: GOP To Attack Climate Change Legislation Based On Fake Economics »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months ago in Political Opinion
Paul Krugman says that the main Republican strategy to fight climate change legislation will be to attack it as hurting the economy:
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Third Quarter GDP Shows Growth - 3.5%, Best Pace In 2 Years »
Posted by: TimALoftis 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year as consumer spending and investment in new home-building ...
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Why France's Health Care Is So Good, The Public Option So Bad and the Co-Ops So Incomplete: An Interview With Kent Conrad. »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months ago in Political Opinion
I think that book is very instructive in terms of analyzing alternative systems around the world for possible lessons for us, not that we're ...
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Oil falls below $44 on bleak US GDP, AIG news »
Posted by: STONERS 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Oil prices fell to below $44 a barrel Monday as hopes for a quick end to the global slump evaporated amid dismal U.S. economic ...
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Starbucks Coffee Cuts down on Health Care »
Posted by: coffeecupnews 3 months, 4 weeks ago in News
Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz says the coffee chain now pays almost as much for employee health care as it does for coffee beans, so ...
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The Recovery That Isn't »
Posted by: engineer 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Those who do cling to the absurd belief that, absent exponential productivity gains, the economy can expand while workers are being laid off will undergo ...
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Worst U.S. economic contraction since 1982 in fourth quarter »
Posted by: Pdlpublic 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Just a month ago the U.S. economic contraction measured by gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2008 had been estimated at 3 ...
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Americans Pay More to Die Earlier -- Why Is Our Health Care System So Screwed Up? »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
There are times when it's comforting to imagine that at some point in our history Satan hired Dr. Frankenstein to help him stitch together ...
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GDP declines 1 percent in 2Q, better than expected »
Posted by: engineer 3 months ago in News
The economy shrank at an annual rate of 1 percent in the spring, a better-than-expected showing and more evidence that the recession is drawing to ...
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A revised reading on fourth-quarter gross domestic product was its worst in 26 years. »
Posted by: engineer 9 months ago in News
The nation's economic slide during the last three months of 2008 was even sharper than previously estimated, with the broadest gauge of economic activity ...
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Obamas Budget Deficit Heroics »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 9 months ago in News
It has been widely reported today that President Obama plans to cut the budget deficit in half by 2013. On the surface, this sounds like ...
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