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Is an Obama Tax Cut Coming?

(Sept. 2) -- A Wall Street Journal story says the Obama administration is considering tax cuts and other stimulus measures, sending the blogosphere into a flurry of activity. A later White House statement (see "Update") suggesting such reports were "premature" has done little to calm the waters. Early buzz is mostly...

What Silver Lining to the Great Recession?

(Aug. 12) -- Dean Baker, the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and one of the few economists to foresee the housing bubble, keeps a daily blog, Beat the Press, that is a must-read corrective to much of what poses as economic insight in major newspapers. On Wednesday, Baker took his scalpel to an...

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06/01/12 The increasingly irrelevant unemployment rate Source: Fortune The unemployment rate inched higher in May, but we've known for months that the figure was not reflecting reality.
06/01/12 How Important Is May Employment Situation Report? Source: The Big Picture That is the question that a few smart observers have raised, wondering if this NFP report might be the one that convinces folks that the overall direction of the economy has changed.
05/04/12 Oil drops below US$100 on jobs data Source: Global Infomine A weak job's report weighed on oil, which dropped below $100, the first time since February.

Background on david leonhardt

David Leonhardt is the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. He joined The Times in 1999 and wrote the "Economics Scene" column, and for the Times Sunday Magazine.

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