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Steven Kurlander: Has Anyone in Washington Noticed the Price of a Box of Pasta Lately?

While most Americans spend about 10% of their family’s budget on groceries, about one-third of them actually spend closer to 20%, so large increases in grocery prices means less spending on consumer goods, which account for a great portion of our economic activity. Read more: Walmart , Farm Bill , Pasta , Steven Kurlander , Gasoline Prices , Agriculture , Kurlys Kommentary , Obama , Paul Ryan , Agriculture Department , Consumer Price Index , Business News Continue reading

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Barbara Roper: SIFMA Hypocritically Protests CFTC User Fee Plan

I’m left to wonder, what is the source of SIFMA’s sudden cost-consciousness? Because I don’t seem to recall ever having heard the association express similar alarm over the costs to investors of the $20 billion or so Wall Street manages to scrape together for bonuses each year. Read more: Federal Budget , Commodity Futures Trading Commission , Consumer Federation of America , Sifma , Cfa , Cftc , President Obama , Business News Continue reading

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Obama Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes On Investment Managers

Part of the tax proposal announced by the Obama administration on Wednesday would shut down a controversial loophole that allows hedge fund managers a… Continue reading

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Raymond J. Learsy: Mr. President, Now That We Need It, Give Us Our Oil Back

You are sitting on some 700 million barrels of oil in our Strategic Petroleum Reserve bought and paid by both the 99% and even the 1%. Here we are living an economic and political emergency while the tool we have to deal with this issue remains untapped. Read more: Energy , Politics , Oil-Embargoes , Iran , President Obama , Oil , Strategic Petroleum Resrve , Obama Administration , Oil Price Speculation , John Boehner Speaker of the House , Business News Continue reading

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White House To Propose Cutting Corporate Tax Rate

WASHINGTON — Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate f… Read more: Treasury Department , Barack Obama , Mitt Romney , Corporate Tax Rate , Rick Santorum , Timothy Geithner , Newt Gingrich , Gene Sperling , Business News Continue reading

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Robert Reich: Manufacturing Illusions

Suddenly, manufacturing is back — at least on the election trail. But don’t be fooled Continue reading

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Robert Reich: Manufacturing Illusions

Suddenly, manufacturing is back — at least on the election trail. But don’t be fooled Continue reading

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This Just Isn’t ‘Sexy’ Anymore

President Obama has made it a top priority to bring manufacturing jobs back home to the United States. But if he succeeds, he might have a tough time … Read more: Jobs Crisis , Video , Unemployment , Youth , President Barack Obama , Unemployment Crisis , Manufacturing , Jobs , Young People , Youth Unemployment , Barack Obama , Manufacturing Jobs , Business News Continue reading

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Adam Levin: Mortgages, Greece & Obama’s Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis

Once upon a time in America, Greek was routinely included in the curriculum of a liberal arts education. Today, we don’t necessarily need to speak the language, but we do need to better understand what’s happening. Read more: Greece Austerity , Consumer Financial Protection Agency , Barack Obama , Obama Foreclosure Plan , Greece Debt Crisis , Business News Continue reading

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Robert Scheer: Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us

If the habits required of Apple’s workforce in China are to be emulated, the U.S. military, or perhaps our outsized prison system, should become the essential schooling system for American workers to better compete with the properly disciplined assemblers of iPhones in China Continue reading

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