Help keep Salon independent

Topic: US Economy (page 38)

President Barack Obama welcomes China's President Hu Jintao during a state arrival on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Is Obama's $45b deal with China a good idea?

Matthew Pennington

Christina Romer, Peter Orszag and Larry Summers

Inside "Obama's job search

Unemployed workers use computers to search for jobs at the Virginia Employment Commission's Reemploy Virginia office in Mechanicsville, Va.

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, testifies before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington April 7 , 2010. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Advertisement:

FILE - In this file photo taken July 21, 2010, a "bank owned" sign is seen on a home that is listed as a foreclosure on a HUD website, in Hawthorne, Calif. Complaints against banks are soaring, suggesting that new laws and regulations put in place since the financial crisis two years ago aren't dampening Americans' anger over overdraft fees and foreclosure practices they view as unfair.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file) (AP)

Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother," an iconic depiction of poverty in Ameria

Poverty supresses children's genetic potential

Adam Clark Estes

In this Dec. 15, 2010 photo, Jesse Paloger holds up a sign while standing on Wall Street as he hopes to find a job, in New York. Paloger, who has an accounting and economics degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written on the bottom of his sign, "Go-getter from California looking for my shot!" Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the third drop in the past four weeks and a sign that the job market is slowly improving. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

Adam Clark Estes

President Barack Obama wears safety glasses during a tour of the Thompson Creek Window Company, where he spoke on the economy, in Landover, Md., Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Advertisement:

FILE - This file photo taken Nov. 18, 2009, a pile of MasterCard and VISA credit cards are displayed in Frankfurt, Germany. A sweater you buy for Christmas goes on sale for half price the next day. You might be able to get the difference back if you paid with a credit card.(AP Photo/Jochen Krause, File) (AP)

Martin Crutsinger

President Barack Obama pauses to answer a question during a news conference on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

The Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sharon Silke Carty

Advertisement:

The Associated Press

Associated Press

Advertisement:

Anne D'innocenzio

Undocumented college student Jorge Herrera, 18, center, of Carson, Calif., rallies with students and Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. The Dream Act, which failed to move on in the Senate, would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond) (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama, joined by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, signs the bipartisan tax package that extends tax cuts for families at all income levels, during a signing ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The massive new tax law signed by President Barack Obama is filled with all kinds of holiday stocking stuffers for businesses: tax breaks for producing TV shows, grants for putting up windmills, rum subsidies for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

Stephen Ohlemacher

President Barack Obama, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, speaks briefly in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, before giving the microphone to Clinton, where he talked about Obama's urging of the Congress to move on the tax compromise he made with Republican congressional leaders. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Darlene Superville

Advertisement:

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, soy beans are harvested near Walton, Neb. Republicans might take control of Congress as they ride a wave of voter anger over deficit spending and big government, but experts who follow agriculture say they don't expect deep cuts in subsidies to farmers who grow crops such as corn and soybeans. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) (Nati Harnik)

Inside the trade deficit: Soybeans for laptops

How Obama's tax deal hurts our global position

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to workers at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, December 6, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Reuters)

James K. Galbraith

« Previous

Page: 38

Next »

Fearless journalism
in your inbox every day

Sign up for our free newsletter

• • •