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Why Keep Geithner?
A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Analysis Sees Baucus Bill Meeting Obama’s Cost and Deficit Targets
The cost analysis is in: the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation, as amended during seven days of ...via Tom Friedman -
Populist Vein Resurfaces in Protests
ea Party Patriots and like-minded brethren represent the latest resurfacing of a vein that has always been there ...via Alan Murray
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Stimulus for Cotton Candy, Tango and a Fish Orchestra? Wacky, or Actually Worthy?
Breakfast at Fuddruckers: $19.24. Snow cone and cotton candy machine: $146.89. Six extra preview performances of ...via ProPublica -
Stimulus Contracts Go to Companies Under Criminal Investigation
The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under ...via Ellen Miller
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Ezra Klein on the House health care reform bill
(Blog Post) So what exactly did the House put out this morning? Is it the Robust opt-out Public Option that Sen. Reid talked ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Tom Coburn picks on political science
(Blog Post) OK, dear readers, I want you to close your eyes and imagine a world in which your entire knowledge of political ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
No Exit
The Fed is keeping the money pumping even though it also conceded that "economic activity is leveling out," which ...via Alan Murray
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Too Big to Fail - Too Big to Exist -
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation that would break up financial institutions that are too big to fail. ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Health Care Budgeting 101: Congress’ Fiscal Scolds Earn an “F-”
the market carve-out for Medicaid saves money, which means that if Blue Dogs really wanted to save money, they ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Good Billions After Bad
As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Analysis Sees Baucus Bill Meeting Obama’s Cost and Deficit Targets
The cost analysis is in: the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation, as amended during seven days of ...via Tom Friedman
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Healthcare Fundamentals: Why isn't anyone talking about what's dricing costs?
Healthcare reform – the most talked about subject in the media lately - replete with stories of catastrophic ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The CBO Just Released Its New Health Care Score. Reason for Relief?
(Blog Post) The good news, substantively and politically, is that CBO expects the measure would reduce budget deficits by $81 ...via Jonathan Cohn
