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As I've been writing about the deficits, one of the things that occurs to me is that conservative and liberal policy analysts are really talking past each other on this issue, because they're talking about different sorts of deficits. Liberals...
Sixty-Five Percent of Nevada Homeowners Underwater
Today more than a quarter of all homeowners are "underwater." That is, the value of their house is less than what they owe in mortgage payments. That means 10.7 million people with negative equity in their homes. Ruth Simon and...
How Credit Cards Rob the Poor to Spoil the Rich
I recently had the chance to catch a preview of "The Card Game," a Frontline special on credit cards, which airs tonight at 9pm ET (check local listings). Lowell Bergman talks with a wide range of financial insiders and...
FOMC On GDP, Unemployment and Inflation
The Federal Open Market Committee's November meeting minutes (.pdf) were released this afternoon. I skimmed them found nothing too surprising said. But what I did find pretty interesting was the committee members' economic projections for 2010 and beyond for GDP,...
Megan McArdle on Health Care, Debt and Obama
Megan McArdle of Atlantic Business debates The New Republic's Noam Scheiber on Bloggingheads....
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Larry Summers on the Global Economy
White House economic adviser Larry Summers on why open markets, global integration remain key to global prosperity....
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Eric Schmidt on the Future of the Internet
Google's CEO speaks to the Atlantic's James Fallows at the First Draft of History about how the Internet will continue to change our lives in wild and unexpected ways....
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Is Obama Anti-Business?
Austan Goolsbee defends the president's policies at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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