Nina Totenberg and Al Hunt on Sotomayor
This interview is from Monday’s Charlie Rose. Even so, most of it holds up well, with good perspective and detail from Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and NPR’s Nina Totenberg.
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- So longThis is our last day here at EconomyBeat, where we focused on user-generated content related to the economic downturn and other aspects of the nation’s financial life. What is not ending, however, are the effects of The Great Recession — which we tried to capture by going directly to the source. The country may, as macroeconomic [...] […]
- Top-post countdown No. 1: Geography of a recessionOn our last day, here’s our top post of all time (or the last nine months, which amounts to the same thing). This post had legs like Betty Grable, probably because it so clearly illustrated just how badly the employment situation was deteriorating last year. 1. Geography of a recession (Nov 30, 2009) This is an [...] […]
- Friday photo gallery: Best of the bestOur last day, our last photo gallery. Here are our favorites, culled from the entire lot… […]
- EconomyBeat Podcast #16: RememberingAs we wrap up here at the EconomyBeat Podcast, I thought we could take a long view and look back the the last great depression, the one in the 20th century. Over the next five minutes or so, feel free to reflect and do a little comparing and contrasting for yourself. Fewer than 1 in [...] […]
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- Political Checklist: Polls Hold More Bad Midterm News for DemocratsIn this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill spoke with political editor David Chalian about new polls that bring more bad news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, as well as President Obama's big economic initiatives rolling out this week and his rare news conference this Friday. […]
- At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the WatchwordThe Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners.Gov2.0 is a catch-all term coined by publisher Tim O'Reilly. It includes everything from government transparency and open dat […]
- Weekly Poem: 'Watching the Towers Go Down'By Peter Balakian-- from "A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy"Who is the other whofloats between what you seeand what is there:think of the other going silent,screen fuzz smoke,hours away on TV.Came as dumb smokeinto my house.The jade plant leaves,tongue of the cat,pan on the stove,the cardamom and clovemoved in their currents.Outside the sky was searing blueho […]
- Australia Cobbles Together New GovernmentIt took more than two weeks of horse trading to win the votes of independent members of parliament, but Australia now has a government with the narrowest of majorities. And that is an accurate reflection of the election last month that basically produced a tie.Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard gets to keep her job, even though her party lost its majority in […]
- Tuesday's Art NotesMark Coreth begins work on his sculpture of a female tiger on the South Bank in London. The skeleton will be transformed into a tigress during a 5-day project to highlight WWF's Year of the Tiger campaign. Photo by Ben Stansall/ AFP/ Getty Images*The Kennedy Center announced that this year's honorees will include Oprah Winfrey, musicians Merle Hagg […]
- Tuesday: Petraeus Warns Against Quran Burning; Obama to Call for Tax BreaksIndonesian demonstrators rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Photo by Aldo Utama/AFP/Getty Images.Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said Tuesday that an American church's threat to burn copies of the Quran could […]
- Political Checklist: Polls Hold More Bad Midterm News for Democrats
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- Obama to Unveil Business Tax Cut Plan Amid Souring Poll NumbersListen to the AudioIn President Obama's latest attempt to boost the economy, he plans to propose allowing businesses to write off new capital investments through 2011. However, new polls paint a grim picture for him and congressional Democrats. Political editor David Chalian examines the poll numbers and how the tax cuts could impact the midterms. JIM L […]
- Political Checklist: Polls Hold More Bad Midterm News for DemocratsIn this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill spoke with political editor David Chalian about new polls that bring more bad news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, as well as President Obama's big economic initiatives rolling out this week and his rare news conference this Friday. […]
- Volatile Housing Market Baffles HomeownersTax credits for buyers, mortgage help for homeowners and new rules for lenders haven't stopped the slide in the housing market. Some economists argue the best way to balance the market in the long term is to let it crash in the short run. Many homeowners and prospective homeowners are unsure if it's time to buy, to rent, or to wait. […]
- Renew The Tax Cuts: Good Politics, Bad Economics?There's a way to dramatically cut the deficit -- by simply letting the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire. But President Obama has vowed not to raise taxes on most Americans, a pledge that would add billions to the deficit every year. And, fiscal watchdogs note, the "Bush tax cuts" would then become Obama's. […]
- Listeners Respond: How to Spend $50 Billion on InfrastructureAll morning we've been talking about President Obama's plan to spend $50 billion on infrastructure to stimulate the economy. Takeaway listeners have some of their own ideas about the money would best be spent. Brandolon from Dallas says: "Biking, walking, and mass transit infrastructure, for example, would reduce reliance on the automobile, an […]
- Robert Reich: President Obama and the Economy of 2011President Obama spent his Labor Day in Milwaukee, announcing big plans for the nation's infrastructure. The plan begins with an initial investment of $50 billion of taxpayer money, followed by increased spending over the next six years. It aims to build or repair 150,000 miles of roads; 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airplane runways. Former Labor […]
- Obama to Unveil Business Tax Cut Plan Amid Souring Poll Numbers
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