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Matt Taibbi, political reporter for Rolling Stone argues in “The Great American Bubble Machine” that the investment bank has been involved in every major market shift: The entire interview is here as an MP3 Hat tip: Dealbreaker.

If you toss in the forced vacations that have ruined this year’s AND next year’s plans it’s up past a 20% cut in pay and benefits this year. Threats of cut programs and further layoffs are being used frequently to get folks to work more …

Answers to and winners of the weekly quiz on economic issues in the news.

Our regular quiz on economics issues in the news.

A sampler of what economists had to say about the less-than-expected decline in the nation’s gross domestic product in the most recent quarter.

An economist’s list of the (impossible) design parameters that an acceptable health reform proposal would have to incorporate in order to conform with Americans’ idea of “common sense” in health care.

The government is redoing the gross domestic product numbers. So it will look like we earned more in the past — at least when there were disasters — and like we spent less on health care.

Here is an interesting video from our friend Mike Swanson supporting a possible continued rally.I’m stilllong term bearish, but short term bullish now that the market has recovered from the scary head and shoulders reversal pattern.

My own opinion, but whathe doesn’t say in the video is that a crash on bad news can… and likely [...]

Fat chance. Taxing junk food by only modest amounts may raise revenue, but it doesn’t significantly decrease obesity.

The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.42 percent of federal income taxes in 2007, according to the most recent data from the Internal Revenue Service.

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NYSE Euronext Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

The Daily Show pokes fun of the Treasury secretary’s difficulty in selling a “toxic asset” — his Larchmont, N.Y., home.

If you are in charge of monetary policy in an up-and-coming Asian economy (say India, China or Korea), you have a problem, an economist writes.