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On AlterNet: economic growth

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "economic growth"

Axing CEOS Is Entertaining, But It Doesn't Solve Our Economic Crisis

Axing CEOS Is Entertaining, But It Doesn't Solve Our Economic Crisis

Frank Rich, The New York Times. April 6, 2009.
Obama fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner as symbolic concession to public rage. Let's see some major economic reforms.

Nelson Rockefeller's Deepest, Darkest Secret: Not As Rich As People Believe

Nelson Rockefeller's Deepest, Darkest Secret: Not As Rich As People Believe

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. January 8, 2009.
In our staggeringly unequal times, the source of Rocky's distress can offer the rest of us some welcome public policy inspiration.

Financial Meltdown Provides Final Verdict on Reaganomics

Financial Meltdown Provides Final Verdict on Reaganomics

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. January 7, 2009.
The economic meltdown may finally have ended the era that began when Ronald Reagan became President.

Why the Economy Grows Like Crazy Amid High Taxes

Why the Economy Grows Like Crazy Amid High Taxes

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. November 17, 2008.
The raw truth is that the economy has grown faster when taxes were higher, but how can we explain that phenomenon?

Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts

Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. November 11, 2008.
That tax cuts stimulate the economy is taken as a matter of faith, but the brute facts suggest otherwise.

How Deep Will the Recession Go?

How Deep Will the Recession Go?

John Miller, Dollars and Sense. February 8, 2008.
The economic recovery underway since late 2001 is probably over. Too bad many Americans never got to experience it.

Pay It off Later: Debt Is the New American Dream

Pay It off Later: Debt Is the New American Dream

Dee Hon, Adbusters. November 10, 2007.
The U.S. addicted to debt -- and the country and millions of its citizens are at the brink of bankruptcy.

Bring on the Recession

Bring on the Recession

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 1, 2007.
How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?