{"id":84,"date":"2011-09-13T21:02:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2015-02-18T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T17:14:52","slug":"the-economy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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News of the economy: jobs, housing, financial markets, and fiscal policy.<\/h2>\n

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Consumer confidence index slips from thirteen-year high<\/a><\/div>
February 10, 2017<\/div>
TRP<\/div>
Economy<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>

The University of Michigan reported today that their index of consumer sentiment slipped almost three points from it’s thirteen-year high in January. The consumer expectations index dropped almost 5 points. Both the stock market and consumer confidence increased after the national election in November, but now the numbers seem to be softening. Consumers who expressed…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Horrible Flaw In Bernie\u2019s Tax Plan That No One Is Talking About<\/a><\/div>
March 13, 2016<\/div>
TRP<\/div>
Economy<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
politics<\/div>

I have been promising for a few weeks to go into detail about how nutty Bernie\u2019s tax proposals are, specifically when it comes to paying for medicare-for-all. Well, I finally saw the annoying and unofficial chart below one too many times, and I finally had my fill of watching liberals defend Bernie\u2019s awful anti-liberal proposal….<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Great Recession: Where\u2019s the Punishment After the Crime?<\/a><\/div>
March 8, 2016<\/div>
TRP<\/div>
Economy<\/div>
Law<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>

  The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating whether individuals and entities involved in toxic, collateralized mortgage-backed securities can be charged with crimes. But, as yet, there have been no criminal convictions of high-level corporate officials directly linked to the practice. Michael Greenberger, former director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u2019s Division of…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Dear Bernie: I Like You, But These Red Flags Are Too Frequent to Ignore<\/a><\/div>
February 23, 2016<\/div>
TRP<\/div>
2016<\/div>
Economy<\/div>
Election 2016<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
The White House<\/div>

The problem is that you’re talking to people who sense that something is wrong, are angry about it and want to know where to place the blame. You are giving them a cabal of boogeyman bankers, corporations and allegedly bought politicians to bear the brunt of that resentment. You’re doing this through a fair degree…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Full Text of the Trans Pacific Partnership<\/a><\/div>
November 5, 2015<\/div>
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Economy<\/div>
Law<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
World<\/div>

The full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement has been released. For all those complaining about how this is a secret deal, you’ve got a lot of dry reading ahead. Here’s the link: TPP Full Text  <\/p>\n<\/div>

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For Cities, Big-Box Stores Are Becoming Even More of a Terrible Deal<\/a><\/div>
June 25, 2015<\/div>
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Economy<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>

It\u2019s an established part of the big-box retail model that the boxes themselves be custom-built, cheaply constructed, and disposable. If retailers decide that they need a bigger space, it\u2019s cheaper for them to leave the old one behind and build a new one. When Walmart, for instance, opened its wave of new, twice-the-size Supercenters across…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Questions and Answers<\/a><\/div>
June 17, 2015<\/div>
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Economy<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
The White House<\/div>
World<\/div>

Senator Warren raises some important questions about an element of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) called Investor-State Dispute settlement, or ISDS. There are good answers. The purpose of investment provisions in our trade agreements is to provide American individuals and businesses who do business abroad with the same protections we provide to domestic and foreign investors…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Magical Mystery Tour of American Austerity: How One State Is Destroying Democracy and Poisoning Its People | Alternet<\/a><\/div>
June 9, 2015<\/div>
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Economy<\/div>
Election 2016<\/div>
Environment<\/div>
Law<\/div>
Liberty<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
State Government<\/div>

One city neglected to inform its residents that its water supply was laced with cancerous chemicals. Another dissolved its public school district and replaced it with a charter school system, only to witness the for-profit management company it hired flee the scene after determining it couldn\u2019t turn a profit. Numerous cities and school districts in…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal<\/a><\/div>
June 4, 2015<\/div>
TRP<\/div>
Economy<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
The White House<\/div>
World<\/div>

What\u2019s mostly going on here, though, is that frustrated liberals see in the Asian trade deal an opportunity to draw the line on globalization, period. No one thinks this deal is going to be the ruin of American workers, when all is said and done. What they think is that there has to be a…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Officials: Kansas Faces $279M Budget Gap By July<\/a><\/div>
November 12, 2014<\/div>
TRP<\/div>
Economy<\/div>
News & Opinion<\/div>
State Government<\/div>

For the next fiscal year, the new projection was $5.8 billion in revenues \u2014 short of the nearly $6.2 billion that legislative researchers had been assuming in their unofficial forecasts. The projected shortfall of $436 million is about 7 percent, and higher than the $282 million gap estimated unofficially. The new revenue projection for the…<\/p>\n<\/div>

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