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06/23/2026
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Xi Jinping Tariff Negotiating Strategy with US Groups
Expert opinion on Medicare reform.
06/14/2009
Grouped Articles
Small Group of Doctors Are Biggest Medicare Billers
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2015
Martin Feldstein - Obama's Health-Care Reform Plan Is Not the Answer
Washington Post 07/28/2009
New York Times 07/31/2009
Obama’s Pledge to Tax Only the Rich Can’t Pay for Everything, Analysts Say
New York Times 08/01/2009
Economist 08/27/2009
Economist 10/15/2009
The U.S. federal mortgage loan modification program in 2010.
06/12/2009
The dim prospects for mortgage loan modification programs of the Obama administration. Two out of three loan modifications under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) program expected to fail, and the failure under HAMP to move quickly by dealing directly with homeowners.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/31/2013
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
High Default Rate Seen for Modified Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
New York Times 08/21/2010
Obama Successes Outweighed by Job Losses
New York Times 10/26/2010
State Attorneys General Take Helm in Mortgage Mess
New York Times 10/29/2010
Home Affordable Modification program (HAMP) of the Obama Administration
06/12/2009
The large failure of a program launched by the Obama administration to reduce home foreclosures in the U.S. Only $1 billion of the $75 billion estimated for the program when it was launched in 2009 has been spent. Only 680,000 of the 2.7 million homeowners seeking to participate received loan modifications with lower monthly payments.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/17/2011
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
High Default Rate Seen for Modified Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
Plunge in Home Sales Stokes Economy Fears
Wall Street Journal 08/25/2010
Wall Street Journal 12/31/2013
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/2010
How the Millenial generation graduates see things today.
06/10/2009
Julie Meador, graduated from the University of Kentucky, and is just looking for agood job. She does not want to save the world just yet.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 06/07/2014
Are Democrats Losing the Youth Vote?
New York Times 11/11/2014
Wall Street Journal 08/19/2015
Millennial Wave Unsettles Presidential Race
Wall Street Journal 02/16/2016
Boomers to This Year's Grads: We Are Really, Really Sorry
Wall Street Journal 06/10/2009
It Will Be Years Before Lost Jobs Return -- and Many Never Will
Wall Street Journal 10/05/2009
More interaction between doctor and patient for better health care experience.
06/07/2009
Doctors are choosing to spend more time with their patients and less on records, forms, and reducing the number of patients seen to focus on each patient.
Grouped Articles
If All Doctors Had More Time to Listen
New York Times 06/07/2009
Obama’s Pledge to Tax Only the Rich Can’t Pay for Everything, Analysts Say
New York Times 08/01/2009
Epic Systems, Digitizing Health Records Before It Was Cool
New York Times 01/14/2012
Why high unemployment in the U.S. is expected for 2010-2014
06/06/2009
Structural problems like a mismatch of skills between maufacturing and construction sectors worst hit since 2008 and growing sectors like healthcare is one problem. Geographic factors and difficulty selling homes in states like Michigan is another. The tighter credit from a return of banking sector losses from bad home equity loans that is expected in late 2010 will keep the recovery from taking hold keeping unemployment high. The economic uncertainty following repeated budget battles between political parties also affects business investment.
Grouped Articles
90 Million Americans Not Working
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2013
Hiring Slowdown Blurs Growth View
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2014
Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
New York Times 01/28/2014
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
New York Times 04/05/2012
Hiring Is Strong and Jobless Rate Declines to 6.1%
New York Times 07/03/2014
The mounting toll of joblessness on America.
06/06/2009
The emotional toll on parents and children is mounting with depression, mental illess, and struggle for basic necessities is showing up for the unemployed millions in America. The serious problem of the long term unemployed in the U.S., very different from any previous recession.
Grouped Articles
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
It's Still Bad for the Long Term Unemployed
New York Times 04/04/2014
Yellen’s Not on Team Krueger When it Comes to Inflation and the Unemployed
Wall Street Journal 04/16/2014
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/2009
Poll Shows Mounting Toll of Joblessness on Nation
New York Times 12/15/2009
New York Times 12/23/2009
Poverty and hunger in the USA as unemployment exceeds 10%.
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/11/2013
The Less Educated Take the Worst Hit
Wall Street Journal 06/06/2009
A Better Way to Measure Poverty
Wall Street Journal 10/19/2015
Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High
New York Times 11/17/2009
Utility Shutoffs Climb by 5% Despite Doubling of U.S. Aid
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2009
Living on Nothing but Food Stamps
New York Times 01/03/2010
Hassett and Baker on the importance of German style work sharing programs and training with government help to address U.S. unemployment
06/06/2009
"Kurzarbeit" and work sharing helped Germany deal with stubborn unemployment in the last decade and after the 2008 financial crisis. France is already looking at cooperation between industry, unions an government to reduce unemployment by adopting some of the actions taken in Germany.
Grouped Articles
Jamie Dimon’s harried JPMorgan Chase pushes campaign for worker training - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/03/2014
Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects
Wall Street Journal 02/07/2012
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/2009
German-Style Training for American Factory Workers
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2014
French Attempt at German-Style Labor Reform Flounders
Wall Street Journal 12/05/2014
The Human Disaster of Unemployment
New York Times 05/12/2012
The beginnings of the long term unemployed problem for the U.S. economy in 2009
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/2009
Blanchflower and Posen call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to use wage growth as the best indicator of unemployment, after the misleading 288,000 jobs report of April 2014
06/06/2009
A renewed focus on the partcipation rate as the unemployment rate declines to 6.3% in April 2014. As this only counts people looking for work and many Americans have dropped out of the labor market because jobs they seek do not exist, the unemployment rate in this situation is misleading. Blanchford and Posen have written a paper on this and say the flat wage rate in March and April 2014 with no improvement in the participation rate provides a true picture of the large slack in the economy.
Grouped Articles
In Tepid Wage Growth, a Potent Sign of a Still-Fragile Economy
New York Times 05/05/2014
Wall Street Journal 05/05/2014
Little Agreement on Reasons for Declining Labor-Force Participation
Wall Street Journal 05/05/2014
Positive Jobs Report Shows Economic Fault Lines
Wall Street Journal 05/05/2014
Jobs Data May Be Icing on America's Birthday Cake
Wall Street Journal 07/03/2014
Hiring Is Strong and Jobless Rate Declines to 6.1%
New York Times 07/03/2014
Lessons from the strong U.S. stock market recovery 2009-2014
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Bull Market Five Years On: Still Celebrating
Wall Street Journal 03/08/2014
Wall Street Journal 03/08/2014
Shiller Metric Carries Warning for Stocks
Wall Street Journal 03/24/2014
Stock Investors See Hints of a Stronger Quarter
Wall Street Journal 04/01/2014
Opening the Box on Tech Stocks' Next Move
Wall Street Journal 04/10/2014
Stock-Market Jitters Put Investors at Ease
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2014
The employment to population ratio for U.S. unemployment- 2011-2014
06/06/2009
The serious problem of the large number of long term unemployed persons in the U.S., very different from under any previous recession.
Grouped Articles
90 Million Americans Not Working
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2013
Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
New York Times 01/28/2014
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
New York Times 04/05/2012
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2014
Hiring Rises, but Number of Jobless Stays High
New York Times 04/04/2014
Medicare.
06/14/2009
Medicare, funding and government deficits. Quality of care, education and lifestyle choices.
Grouped Articles
Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
New York Times 06/14/09
Doctors Chafe As Medicare Cuts Loom
Wall Street Journal 06/16/10
Bullish Medicare Projection Doubted
Wall Street Journal 08/06/10
Toward a Different Fiscal Future
Wall Street Journal 02/08/10
Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare
Wall Street Journal 10/26/10
Medicare Plan to Link Cost to Performance Rankles Hospitals
New York Times 05/30/11
Failure of Obama's plan for helping homeowners facing foreclosure in 2009-2010
06/12/2009
Failure of the Making homes Affordable plan announced by the Obama administration in early 2009. Only 2000 of 500,000 loan modification applications in progress in October under this program have become permanent according to a Congressional oversight panel.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/17/11
High Default Rate Seen for Modified Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 06/16/10
Wall Street Journal 12/31/13
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/10
New York Times 05/19/14
Wall Street Journal 07/29/15
The Fiat 500- the focus of Fiat's strategy in Europe 2012-2015
06/11/2009
Marchionne and Fiat managers decide to focus on new models of the Fiat 500 to increase sales in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Marchionne says this is "not a strategy for the fainthearted," and Fiat will take up the fight. The eurozone crisis has led to declining auto sales in Europe and a shift to price sensitive cars. Italian factories are operating at only about 45% capacity on average and Fiat is now taking on the new challenge of exports. A similar strategy is being followed for the Jeep model made in the U.S. with a new focus on export markets.
Grouped Articles
Toyota Prices Scion iQ at $15,995
New York Times 07/21/11
European Pain Relief For GM and Ford
Wall Street Journal 05/20/13
Who's Buying 'Youth' Cars? Seniors
Wall Street Journal 08/13/13
Auto Sales in Europe Rise for 14th Consecutive Month
New York Times 11/18/14
European Car Recovery Could Still Sputter
Wall Street Journal 12/01/14
Fiat Chrysler Gives Upbeat Outlook, Turns Profit in Europe
Wall Street Journal 01/29/15
Edward Whitacre, the new chairman of GM (General Motors)
06/09/2009
Edward Whitacre is brought in by the Obama administration to lead GM's recovery. What sort of a man is he, and what do peers, experts and others think of him? Where is he from? A sleepy railroad town in Texas called Ennis where his father was alocomotive engineerfor 50 years, and who wanted his son to get the education that he himself had missed out on. Whitacre went on to Texas Tech in Lubbock mostly because it was $75 for tution. Through this story by Tim Higgins of the Detroit Free Press one can see the changes that are expected at GM. The kind of culture change where egotistical lead board members like George Fisher who called himself Eastman the Second at Eastman Kodak in 2008, is now the place where the throroughly informal with little ego Whitacre now walks around opnely talking to GM employees.
Grouped Articles
G.M. Report Illustrates Managers’ Disconnect
New York Times 06/08/14
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/14
GM Names Former AT&T Chief as Chairman
Wall Street Journal 06/09/09
Next Chair is chosen for GM. Whitacre to lead after bankruptcy.
Detroit Free Press 06/10/09
Auto outsider to lead GM board
Detroit News 06/10/09
G.M. Chairman’s Task: Bring Fresh Perspective
New York Times 06/10/09
High unemployment in the U.S. coexists with a shortage in specialized fields- 2011-2012
06/06/2009
Shortage of engineers, software developers and other specialized workers in the U.S. in 2011-2012. With the drop in housing prices applicants for openings are reluctant to relocate. Workers with special skills are harder to find.
Grouped Articles
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/09
Engineers in Short Supply as Some Sectors Try to Hire
Wall Street Journal 06/06/11
Piecing Together the Job-Picture Puzzle
Wall Street Journal 03/12/12
Bernanke Says Faster Growth Is Needed to Bolster Job Market
New York Times 03/26/12
Time Not on Side of the Jobless
Wall Street Journal 03/27/12
Mortimer Zuckerman: Those Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look
Wall Street Journal 09/07/12
The long-term unemployed in the U.S.
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/05/12
It's Still Bad for the Long Term Unemployed
New York Times 04/04/14
Yellen’s Not on Team Krueger When it Comes to Inflation and the Unemployed
Wall Street Journal 04/16/14
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/09
Elevated Level of Part-Time Employment: Post-Recession Norm?
Wall Street Journal 11/13/14
When the Jobless Become the Unemployable
New York Times 12/02/10
High U.S. unemployment and the haphazard effort for jobs retraining in the U.S. - 2009-2013
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Jamie Dimon’s harried JPMorgan Chase pushes campaign for worker training - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/03/14
Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
New York Times 01/28/14
Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects
Wall Street Journal 02/07/12
Piecing Together the Job-Picture Puzzle
Wall Street Journal 03/12/12
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/09
The world economy: Wealth without workers, workers without wealth
Economist 10/06/14
Declining U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate for 2010-2016 and its implications for unemployment and economic growth
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Job Growth Eases Fears About Effect of Closing
New York Times 11/08/13
Candid Criticism for Fed That Wasnât on the Agenda
New York Times 11/08/13
Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
New York Times 01/28/14
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/14
New York Times 04/05/12
Takeaways From the Monthly Jobs Report
Wall Street Journal 04/05/14
The U.S. job vacancy rate with 3.5 million openings in Feb. 2012 and the high unemployment rate showing a mismatch of skills
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
The Next First (and Only) 100 Days
New York Times 12/10/11
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/09
The world economy: Wealth without workers, workers without wealth
Economist 10/06/14
On Jobs, No Time for a Celebratory Beveridge
Wall Street Journal 04/11/12
The incredible shrinking labor force - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/05/12
U.S. Faces Uphill Battle in Retraining the Jobless
Wall Street Journal 07/31/12
U.S. stock market in 2009
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Wall Street's Clearance Sale Leaves Few Bargains
Wall Street Journal 06/06/09
Technical omens such as the Hindenberg for Nov. 2010 in U.S. stock markets
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 08/14/10
Wall Street's Clearance Sale Leaves Few Bargains
Wall Street Journal 06/06/09
Rising Unemployment in the U.S. in 2010.
06/06/2009
Grouped Articles
Stuck at Unemployed: When A Layoff Becomes a Lifestyle
Washington Post 06/06/09
Labor Market Takes a Shot To the Gut
Wall Street Journal 06/05/10
Mystery for the White House: Where did the Jobs Go?
New York Times 07/19/10
California's Building Bust Choking Off Jobs
Wall Street Journal 07/29/10
Job Crisis: Machines Over Manpower
BusinessWeek 07/29/10
Wall Street Journal 08/06/10
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