Economic stimulus

Reuters/Rebecca Cook The recession is not colorblind

President Obama and Congress, focus your economic recovery efforts on the communities being hit the hardest
  • Obama's 100-day report card

    Bloggers, activists, economists and writers grade the president's performance so far. Featuring Sen. Russ Feingold, Dan Savage, Markos, Michael Pollan, Gloria Feldt and many others.
  • Obama gives a speech and ... Look! A puppy!

    The president summarizes and defends his economic efforts to date. And shows off his new dog.
  • We need more stimulus, not more bailout

    To jump-start the economy, we need to spur consumer demand. We can't do that without additional stimulus.
  • Sorry states of affairs

    As the economy shrinks, states need to avoid tax increases and cuts in services.
  • It's a depression

    With unemployment booming and anxiety rising, the government needs to stop worrying about Wall Street and start creating jobs.
  • Joseph Stiglitz: "It's going to be bad, very bad"

    In an interview, the Nobel Prize-winner and former chief economist at the World Bank talks about the Great Depression, Obama's stimulus package and today's financial crisis.
  • Obama shoots back and scores

    With a sharp retort about AIG, the president was on his game with the press, weaving through questions and driving home his economic plan.
  • Welcome to double-standard America

    The AIG scandal has made it apparent that we are ruled by a government of men, not laws.
  • Obama's Wall Street bailout failure

    Before it can clean up Wall Street or do much of anything else, the administration has to clean up the way it's been trying to clean up Wall Street.
  • Is Obamanomics conservative or revolutionary?

    If you look only at the small print, the president's economic program looks modest. If you look at the big picture, it's radical.
  • My family is feuding about politics

    We've got Republicans, we've got liberals, and it's getting ugly.
  • Stick it in your earmark

    President Obama urges pork reform and signs a bill with earmarks in it on the same day. Republicans make an unconvincing show of outrage.
  • I was a teenage socialist!

    Sort of. And I still don't understand the media's sudden, silly fixation with Obama and that lost ideology.
  • Jon Stewart takes down CNBC

    Watch this greatest hits compilation of the network's rah-rah fronting for the Bush economy and "losers" like Bear Stearns, Lehman and AIG.
  • Democrats: No so fast, Obama

    House Democrats from districts that McCain won in 2008 are starting to put the brakes on Obama's agenda.
  • Class warfare? Bring it on

    Obama tells plutocrats ready to fight over his plans: "So am I." Plus: Will Maureen Dowd ever let Obama be a man?
  • Making every stimulus dollar work

    It's not just conservatives who want to ensure money isn't wasted. Taxpayers on the ground need to be involved in picking projects that get the most bang for every buck.
  • We're on the brink of disaster

    Violent protests and riots are breaking out everywhere as economies collapse and governments fail. War is bound to follow.
  • States of panic

    There's fiscal chaos in capitals coast to coast and the stimulus didn't stop it. A tour of the mayhem, from the nearly bankrupt, like California, to the flush.
  • President Obama: Forget the deficit

    Don't make FDR's mistake and spend too little -- because we're probably going to need a second stimulus no matter what.
  • Who is the right calling "loser"?

    The GOP is whipping up resentment of Obama and "loafers" who defaulted on home loans. But it crashed the biggest welfare Cadillac in history.
  • Who's Obama courting with bipartisanship?

    It's not John McCain or Eric Cantor, it's the American public, watching the GOP make trouble as the president makes nice.
  • Obama to GOP governors: May I have this dance?

    The White House throws a dinner for governors -- even the Republicans who still say they don't want Obama's stimulus money.
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