Stimulus Package

First, let’s get something out in the open.The Detroit Free Press’ story on the jobs impact of Uncle Sam’s Motown mega-order forgets to mention one salient fact. As TTAC reported back in June, one-third of the 17,600 vehicles ordered from Chrysler, Ford and GM were/are/will be assembled…

We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire……The program will highlight new technologies and explore the opportunities afforded by the stimulus package. For more, visit www.greenbeat2009.com. ReadWriteWeb readers, save 20% on regular

Well, if there’s one thing to be said about the White House and their ideas to “stimulate” the U.S. economy, it’s that they’re creative. From the New York Times’ David Leonhardt yesterday: The one highly visible success of the stimulus program has been the cash-for-clunkers program.…

I’d like to rewind for a second. In that last post on the proposed “Cash for Caulkers” stimulus program, the New York Times piece said: The rest of the stimulus has created a lot of jobs — 700,000 to 1.5 million, according to economists’ estimates. Now, I’m hearing there were problems…

While financial markets believe the great recession is over, millions of Americans continue to……to reduce unemployment. One category requires further expenditure of Federal funds. The initial stimulus package saved the jobs of millions of government workers - teachers, healthcare…

I’m a little late in posting today because besides caulking my windows for the winter, I’ve been trying to think of some way I can help stimulate the real estate photographer profession. Why? Because this morning Fed Chairman Bernanke came clean and admitted that unemployment will get worse…

As part of last February's federal stimulus package, the U.S. Commerce and Agriculture departments were given $7.2 billion to expand broadband availability.But a Government Accountability Office report says that the program lacks basic information and adequate safeguards to ensure that the…

The New Oxford American Dictionary on Monday named its 2009 "Word of the Year," and listed as one……to live, when care is rationedteabagger - a person who protests President Obama's tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as "Tea Party" protests (in…

As I've noted several times, my general outlook is for GDP growth to be decent in Q4 (similar to……to 700 thousand SAAR, even with the large overhang of existing housing inventory. Another large stimulus package. The greatest impact from the stimulus package is behind us as the following…

Earlier this week I mentioned a possible "upside surprise" for GDP in 2010: With unemployment above 10%, there will be significant political pressure for another stimulus package - especially if the economy starts to slow in the first half of 2010. This next package could be several hundred…

From the WaPo: House shifts focus to 'jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs' "It's jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs," Rep.……A transaction tax on over-the-counter trades in unregulated "dark markets"Why wasn't the the last stimulus package - the one with the inefficient housing tax credit and the "gift" to…

A typical state of the city address is a bit ho-hum. But Blue Springs Mayor Carson Ross had……a winner of the popular contest American Idol a native. Ross said David Cook “was our city’s stimulus package,” a fact he told the rocker himself when he stopped by in the…

In a recent article in Forbes Magazine, former Presidential candidate Ron Paul expounds on why…… Hoover's, and then Roosevelt's, interventions were of a much different flavor than today's stimulus package. In 1930, Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which put tariffs on…

David Leonhardt of the New York Times talks with Kai Ryssdal about why President Obama's stimulus hasn't stopped unemployment from rising, and discusses another stimulus package in the works.

In her memoir, Sarah Palin claims that she vetoed an "earmark for energy conservation" Alaska could have received under the stimulus package because "acceptance of the funds required the adoption and enforcement of energy building codes." When Palin previously made a similar claim,…