Some Urge U.S. to Focus on Selling Its Skills Overseas -
Some economists say giving American services companies the same subsidies as manufacturers would raise United States exports and employment.
“the financial and political architects of our economy over the past three plus decades — both Republicans and Democrats — were able to disguise massive redistribution toward the richest by claiming they were simply “deregulating” when all along they were actually reregulating to the benefit of their largest campaign donors.” — Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience’ - NYTimes.com
Getting Back to a Grand Bargain -
President Obama made the first step with his jobs speech. Will Republicans respond in kind?
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Robert Reich: The Stalled Recovery, Smoke and Mirrors, and the Carnage on the Street -
The Dow ended the week below 12,000 for the first time since March. This is the sixth straight week of downs for the Dow. It’s almost as bad over at the Nasdaq. All the gains racked up in 2011 have now been erased.
What’s going on?
The real economy is catching up with the financial economy, as…
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St. Pete Times article by Craig Pittman
Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown | Magazine -
good article on the #attfail phenomenom and history of ill will from AT&t to its customers. They are upgrading their network, but will that keep millions of customers from leaving once the iPhone is available from other carriers?
Newsvine - Shipment of heads on Southwest not uncommon in airline industry -
shipments of human body parts and blood are more common than we think…
Robert Reich: Greenspan, Summers, and Why the Economy Is So Out of Whack -
Reich writes from the “green room” at ABC News, waiting to join a roundtable panel discussion on ABC’s weekly Sunday news program, This Week.
Alan Greenspan is now being interviewed. He says he bore no responsibility for the housing bubble that catapulted the nation into a financial crisis in 2008 because…