White House to Revive Latin America Deals Wall Street Journal ...The Obama administration is accelerating efforts to revive stalled trade agreements with Colombia and Panama...
Obama Misguided In Push for Free Trade (opinion) Economy in Crisis ...This paradoxical farce of telling the country's leading outsourcers of the need to produce jobs at home, and then providing a solution that will only cause more job losses would be comical if it were not our own livelihoods at stake...
An NFL Lockout the Players Could Support Wall Street Journal ...The players want to increase their share of league revenues so they can improve health-care benefits, while the owners want to reduce the players' portion of revenues by $1 billion...
Doing the Math on a Jobless Recovery Wall Street Journal ...At the rate of 36,000 new jobs a month—the number gained in January—we will never get back to full employment...
Jobs JOLTS for December 2010 The Economic Populist ...The December report shows there were 4.73 official unemployed people hunting for a job to every position available...
Administration Pitches Big Rail Projects New York Times ...The Obama administration, whose efforts to bring high-speed rail to the United States were sidetracked by Republican governors in a couple of states, pressed ahead with its vision of building a national rail network on Tuesday when it called for spending $53 billion on passenger trains and high-speed rail projects over the next six years...
Rich Take From Poor as U.S. Subsidy Law Funds Luxury Hotels Bloomberg ...Since 2003, some of the world’s biggest financial companies, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase and Prudential, have taken advantage of a federal subsidy that will cost taxpayers $10.1 billion...
Oilsands pipeline project winning support in U.S., Liepert says Vancouver Sun ...The Alberta government is “very encouraged” that it is getting its message out among Americans that TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline offers big benefits to the United States, the province’s energy minister said Tuesday...
