Month: July 2009

We posted this back in 2007, but thought it might be worth viewing again as we watch a parade of rich financiers insist that they

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California legislative leaders Monday said they reached a compromise to close the state’s $26 billion budget shortfall. Continue Reading California Budget

By Tim Mullaney Venture capital investment fell 51 percent in the second quarter as firms coped with the recession and a drought in initial public

More information at Wikipedia . . . Update: Asia Darkens Under Long Solar Eclipse Reuters (22 July 09)

By Rob Kirby With the former Investment Banks being granted Commercial Banking status due to the unfolding financial crisis in late 2008, it was widely

Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill EconomicPolicyJournal.com “Following the mad recommendations of Peter Singer made in NYT’s Sunday magazine, it pays to take a look at

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the

Public Roads By: Ellen Dannin On July 24, 2008, the Denver Post reported that Coloradans were shocked to learn that the private contractor that had

By Paul Craig Roberts There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was

By Zachary Roth So: is Steve Rattner stepping down as the Obama administration’s car czar because of the investigation into whether his private-equity fund used