September 8, 2010
By Alan Reynolds
A year after the US economy stopped falling, we are still mired in "the worst labor-market crisis since the Great Depression," writes Laura Tyson in The New York Times. Voicing the consensus of the left-liberal economic establishment -- she's reportedly a leading candidate to head up President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers -- Tyson argues that the US unemployment rate, still stuck at 9.6 percent, is reason to try "a second fiscal stimulus" to raise "aggregate demand." She's wrong in a number of illuminating ways.
SCOT LEHIGH
By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist | September 8, 2010
THERE’S NO shortage of political advice for Barack Obama as the midterm elections approach.
Go left, think big, and sharpen policy differences.
Slide center-ward, think small, and make like Bill Clinton.
By Gloria Borger, CNN Senior Political Analyst
Washington (CNN) -- There are just times, when you are president of the United States, that formally speaking to the American people is part of the job.
Not because it's politically wise, or even politically advisable -- but because you have something important to say. As in, the seven-year-combat-mission-in-Iraq-is-over. Or, more specifically, as President Obama said, "it's time to turn the page."
September 2, 2010
By E.J. Dionne
WASHINGTON -- By insisting Tuesday evening that "it's time to turn the page," President Obama was talking about more than the Iraq War, and doing much more than reviving one of his most effective slogans from the 2008 campaign.
He was also trying to turn the page on a period in which he has found himself on the defensive, his party in a perilous position for November's elections, and his reputation for political mastery in doubt.
August 31, 2010
BY JESSE JACKSON
There are so many vacant lots in Detroit that serious plans are being made to start up family farming there -- 90,000 vacant lots and homes boarded up.
Detroit suffers record unemployment. Not one chain grocery store does business in Detroit. Not one national chain retail store. Detroit residents travel to the suburbs to shop, spending $2 billion a year outside the city.
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