NPR makes a pretty good case for the Commission on Hope, Growth & Opportunity, a major 501(c)(4) player in this year’s elections which not only avoids disclosing its donors to the Federal Election Commission — standard practice among Section 501 nonprofits — but has also thus far declined to More…
Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a little-known Republican operative named Carl Forti:
Forti has played a critical role in shaping the ad campaigns of two of the biggest-spending outside groups
The National Association of Business Economists has lowered its growth outlook for the entire U.S. economy, forecasting persistent high unemployment and sluggish growth for the next two years, if not beyond. From the summary:
This morning, Wells Fargo released its weekly dispatch of economic and financial analysis, providing an outlook based on the latest jobs, consumer spending, housing and interest rate figures. The report confirmed the growing consensus that the worst is behind the U.S. economy and the chance of a double-dip recession More…
The New York Times reports that the U.S. economy grew last quarter for the first time in the past year:
Gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the three months ending in September, a significant spike from a relatively shrunken base. The
The U.S. economy may never return to the days of rapid expansion, Bloomberg reports, and an unemployment rate greater than eight percent and a long period of slower growth may become the “new normal,”
The U.S. financial crisis and recession have produced lasting shifts in consumer spending and savings
rss