Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Hilarious twist on "You didn't build that!" UPDATED

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The Atlantic Wire (via @NoBigGovDuh) has a great story on the dishonesty of Mitt Romney's "You didn't build that" ads. It...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Lid Blowing Off Romney Tax Secrecy

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Gawker (via Eman at Daily Kos) dropped a bombshell yesterday when it released over 950 pages of confidential documents from 21 Bain Capita...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Is the Growth of Manufacturing Production a Mirage?

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A lot of people lament the decline in manufacturing employment, which has fallen by about 1/3 since 2000. As Upjohn Institute economist Sus...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Most U.S. Trade Agreement Improve Trade Balance, but Effect Overwhelmed by NAFTA and China Trade

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The U.S. trade deficit figures heavily in the analysis of Jeff Faux's new book , The Servant Economy . Faux, the founder of the Economic...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

U.S. Trade Deficit Largely Due to "Intra-Firm" Trade (UPDATED)

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The vast majority of the U.S. $727 billion trade deficit in goods for 2011 is due to "intra-firm" or "related party" tra...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

It's the Middle Class, Stupid! (Review)

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When I saw that James Carville and Stan Greenberg had just published It's the Middle Class, Stupid! ( Blue Rider Press ), I knew that I...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

New Estimate of Offshore Wealth Shows Big Increase Since 2004

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A new report by the Tax Justice Network , "The Price of Offshore Revisited," shows that the amount of wealth held in tax havens h...