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SILOs –more action needed?

…federal Dept. of Transportation to use these means to get some. So there is a vicious double circle of irony here, that as states and localities cut taxes during the…

Who represents domestic manufacturers?

…United States. As recently as 2002, that figure was only 28 percent. At the end of 2006, Mr. Immelt said that in five years, GE would likely at least double

Iran, stagflation, unemployment

…and perhaps double among the young (2006 data suggests the median age at 24/25 years). …There are various numbers out there, but after digging around it would seem to me…

Watch What I Do…..

double that.) Corporate lobbyists had agreed to this plan–ram the individual tax cuts through first and then pass a big bill fulfilling the multinationals’ wish list. The Bush administration and…

Corn ethanol

…the gasoline, ethanol is becoming one of the leading culprits for the damage. Sadly, when a truly bad idea is exposed today, Washington’s answer is to double-down on the bet,…

May Day MayDay

…last year. No other state—not even California—is in double-digits yet. So I won’t be surprised if SunTrust needs “additional capital.” Another possible contender from the regionals? PNC Financial Services, which…

DI: the Sick Man of Social Security

…fixed percentage of wage income is obviously not immune to double digit unemployment, and we would want to keep an eye on that cold and mild fever, in medical terms…

1,121 Words on Bruce’s Post, with footnote

I’m going to have to do a little clean-up work here (i.e., run the data in Excel instead of Stata), so I’ll ask forgiveness for the double-labels and all that.Graphic…