Tag: economy
member name: Alan Waldman
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September 14, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
Pew Research came out with a highly detailed look at American opinions going into the midterm election season (today, 9/15/06), and most data are encouraging for Democrats and people who want to see a . . .
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September 26, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
<h1>Excerpted from L.A. Times article Data on Homes Causes Jitters of 9/26, written by Tom Petruno.</h1>
Housing prices decline nationally for the first time since 1995 and inventory sets . . .
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October 27, 2006 02:47 PM EDT --
Exerpted from N.Y. Times article of 10/27 by Jeremy W. Peters:
The economy grew more slowly in the third quarter than at any time since early 2003, held back by a deflating housing market.
The Commerce . . .
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September 29, 2006 02:26 PM EDT --
Excerpted from The Wall St. Journal:
Pelosi Promises Fiscal Restraint If Democrats Win
Minority Leader Says Democratic-Run House Would Target Deficit
By DAVID ROGERS and SARAH LUECK, July 13, 2006; Page A4 . . .
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October 10, 2006 12:19 PM EDT --
A series of new polls show Bush and his GOP-led Congress dropping in popularity after the House sex scandal. USA Today/Gallup gave Democrats a powerful 23% lead over Republicans in the battle for Congress, . . .
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August 20, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
A Gather colleague asked why I am so insistent that we need real liberal leadership in Washington, instead of Moderates. I answered:
If anyone besides Bush had been president from 2000-2008, a moderate . . .
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October 05, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Personal income has declined over the Bush years, home values and new construction are off and job cuts zoomed in September. According to the Associated Press: "Job cuts soared . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:52 PM EDT --
Excerpted from:
Reports Hint at Faltering Economy
The Philadelphia Fed survey is one of four gauges that paint a picture of a slowdown.
From Reuters, September 22, 2006
A surprise drop in regional . . .
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August 24, 2007 10:28 AM EDT --
Excerpted from: The Subprime Mortgage Disaster: Loan Sharks Wreak Havoc on Main Street and Wall Street, By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown, Wednesday . . .
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January 27, 2006 03:25 PM EST --
While visiting Malta in 2003, I was interviewed by a journalist for the Independent on Sunday newspaper, who asked me about life in America under Bush. Everything I said then is true today. Alan Waldman . . .
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August 28, 2006 11:29 AM EDT --
Excerpt from "Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity"
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and DAVID LEONHARDT
New York Times, August 28, 2006
With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion . . .
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April 26, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
I was once young, and at that time I naively believed that most people start from a position of innate goodness. I have come to realize that the 5% who run corporations and the Bush, Reagan and Nixon Administrations . . .
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July 18, 2006 12:17 PM EDT --
Although every Gallup poll for the last three Clinton Administration years found Americans viewing the U.S. economic outlook favorably--in the administration's last week, Gallup found 67% approving--EVERY . . .
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February 15, 2006 02:13 PM EST --
My article yesterday was a NY Times report on how big oil companies are getting billions of dollars from the rest of us by the current administration's unwillingness to roll back a decade-old . . .
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March 31, 2006 06:17 PM EST --
A recent Gallup Poll revealed that these percentages of Americans worry about these problems either a great deal or a fair amount: "the availability and affordability of health care": 89%, the . . .
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February 23, 2006 07:04 PM EST --
...and that Clinton Enriched Average Americans by Better than 17% in His Second Term.
Average American Family Income Declines
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer, Feb. 23, 2006
WASHINGTON - After . . .
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June 22, 2006 05:50 PM EDT --
Since April 14, 2002, ABC News/Washington Post's Consumer Comfort Index has consistently been negative. It bottomed at -23 (pretty damn negative) on Sept. 18, 2005, got as high as -7 on March 26, . . .
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