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Daily Links for December 4th

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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Daily Links for December 3rd

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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Daily Links for December 1st

December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

  • Map: Show Me the TARP Money - ProPublica - Each marker represents the headquarters of a financial institution that expects or has already received money from the Treasury Department under the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). The size of each marker represents the amount of bailout money given to each institution. Click on the markers to see the institution’s name and amount it’s receiving.

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Daily Links for November 30th

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

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Daily Links for November 25th

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments

  • Is Obama Planning For Battle Against A Looming Depression, Not A Recession? - No doubt, Obama is smart to treat this crisis as potentially as bad as what the country experienced in the 1930s. He would be committing presidential malpractice if he under-treats the condition, and I'm thrilled that Obama picked a professor from my alma mater (Berkeley) to serve as his chief economist. But the noticeable shift in Obama's discussions about our economic situation, along with hints that he'll be putting on the backburner any tax cut rollbacks or efforts to tackle the deficit, are quite revealing.

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Daily Links for November 21st

November 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

  • Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one. - The Boston Globe - Today, however, whatever a depression would look like, that's not it. We are separated from the 1930s by decades of profound economic, technological, and political change, and a modern landscape of scarcity would reflect that. What, then, would we see instead? And how would we even know a depression had started? It's not a topic that professional observers of the economy study much. And there's no single answer, because there's no one way a depression might unfold. But it's nonetheless an important question to consider - there's no way to make informed decisions about the present without understanding, in some detail, the worst-case scenario about the future.

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Daily Links for November 19th

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

  • A Sea of Unwanted Imports - NYTimes.com - And for the first time, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Nissan have each asked to lease space from the port for these orphan vehicles. They are turning dozens of acres of the nation’s second-largest container port into a parking lot, creating a vivid picture of a paralyzed auto business and an economy in peril.

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Daily Links for November 16th

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

  • Cartype : Carbon Motors - Carbon Motors Corporation is a new American automaker that is developing and will manufacture, distribute, and service the Carbon E7, the world's first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle.
  • Voter turnout didn’t set record: Democrats’ passion wasn’t matched by GOP - Turnout in last week's election increased from four years ago but fell far short of some forecasts largely because many Republican voters either stayed home or left blank the presidential section of their ballots.

    In states won by President-elect Barack Obama, turnout was more than five percentage points higher than in states won by Republican John McCain, according to a Globe analysis of data compiled by a pair of researchers who study voting patterns in US elections.

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