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Is this good bang for the buck? White House says stimulus created 51,700 clean energy jobs

What’s the return on investment here? The White House reported Wednesday that the $5 billion in stimulus funds spent to promote clean energy has created 51,700 jobs nationwide.
Clearly most of the $90 billion in the stimulus package for clean energy has yet to be spent, according to the second quarterly report to Congress on the Recovery Act’s impact by the Council [...]

Obama seizes the energy opportunity

During President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition, the Center for American Progress proposed a 10-point clean-energy agenda for the president and Congress that would speed the economic transformation to a clean energy economy. A review of these items today finds that all were adopted or are working their way through the process. This is a startling achievement [...]

If there’s a hell below, we’re all gonna go

Linder is one of many who would argue that the Bush tax cuts — which added $20 billion per month to federal budget deficits through 2008 — should be made permanent, even though doing so would cost an additional $4.5 trillion. Meanwhile, food stamps — which have greater stimulative effect than anything else we might [...]

Elizabeth Warren: “We Rescued at the Top, and Sort of Left the Bottom to Fend for Itself”

Elizabeth Warren from ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “The way I think of it is: they say something like ‘Give me your money, investors and I’m going to Las Vegas and put it all on red 22. And if red 22 comes in — woo! we are RICH. If red 22 doesn’t [...]