The Senate voted down the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010, 57 to 41 (see an earlier version of the CBO’s estimate here for a breakdown of…

…internal labour cost devaluation has yet to materialize in the GIIPS or the Eurozone as a whole. According to last week’s Eurostat release of Q1 2010 quarterly labour costs for…

…the agency (May 17, 2010). A similar letter to Halliburton seeks information on the cement and the regulatory oversight of its use. See Grassley letter to Halliburton, May 17, 2010….

…not the progress desired by the administration. For further reading: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Federal Register, Vol. 75, No. 8, January 13, 2010, pps. 1844…

by Linda Beale Limit Banks’ Proprietary Trading? Links Worth Noting on Possible Reprise of Glass Steagall Maybe Obama takes on America’s banks with new Glass-Steagall act, Guardian.co.uk, Jan. 21, 2010…

…of $137 billion for 2009, $138 bn for 2010, and $154 bn for 2011 for a total of $2.9 trillion. What would it take to get that end sum down…

…to about 1% of the population at large. A Tax Policy Determination Clue (Jan. 6, 2010). I picked that post up in the context of noting a number of links…

…The spreadsheets linked to that post show that under current projections you can fix Social Security by implementing a 0.20% FICA increase in 2010, another of 0.10% in 2011, followed…

…proposals would add $4.8 trillion to the baseline deficits over the 2010–2019 period. CBO projects that if those proposals were enacted, the deficit would total $1.8 trillion (13.1 percent of…

…fourth quarter of 2010; and by between 0.4 percent and 1.2 percent by the fourth quarter of 2011. CBO estimates that the legislation would raise employment by 0.9 million to…