Entries Tagged as “Economy”

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It’s Easy Being Green
Channel: New York Times  Author: Paul Krugman
By:  Craig Uffman on September 26, 2009 Excerpt: So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? If so, you’ll…   Read full post >>

Rolls-Royce Unveils Its Economy Car
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: VANESSA FUHRMANS
By:  Craig Uffman on September 17, 2009 Excerpt: Check out the pictures before you order.... FRANKFURT -- At the auto show here this week, auto executives continue to fret over sputtering sales. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' answer to the…   Read full post >>

Ruth Gledhill: Archbishop of Canterbury on Sin and the City
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on September 16, 2009 Excerpt: Repent, or be doomed, is the Jeremiah-style message of the Archbishop of Canterbury over our financial excesses. I can think of no person better suited to deliver it. See the…   Read full post >>

U.S. Economy Gets Lift From Stimulus
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: DEBORAH SOLOMON
By:  Craig Uffman on September 02, 2009 Excerpt: Government efforts to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy appear to be helping the U.S. climb out of the worst recession in decades. But there's little…   Read full post >>

A Primer on the New General Motors
Channel: New York Times  Author: MICHELINE MAYNARD
By:  Craig Uffman on July 10, 2009 Excerpt: With GM emerging from bankruptcy today, I found this "primer" helpful in understanding the new "Obama Motors." General Motors closed the sale of its best assets to a new company…   Read full post >>

Required reading:  CARITAS IN VERITATE
By:  Craig Uffman on July 10, 2009
Excerpt:  Given the discussions at General Conference and in the national news, it seems right to feature this important encyclical by the learned teacher given us by Providence, Benedict XVI: INTRODUCTION…   Read full post >>

U.S. Bishops and Vatican View Obama Differently
Channel: New York Times  Author: LAURIE GOODSTEIN
By:  Craig Uffman on July 10, 2009 Excerpt: Ever since he took office, President Obama has been given a cold reception by some Roman Catholic bishops in the United States who have repeatedly emphasized their church’s differences with…   Read full post >>

Economic Woes a Result of ‘Crisis of Truthfulness,’ Archbishop Tells Forum
Channel: Living Church  Author: Doug LeBlanc
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on July 10, 2009 Excerpt: After spending his day in private meetings with small groups of deputies and roaming through General Convention’s Exhibit Hall, the Archbishop of Canterbury devoted Wednesday evening to delivering a vigorous…   Read full post >>

Speak Clearly, and Don’t Kill the Goose
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: Peggy Noonan
By:  Craig Uffman on May 15, 2009 Excerpt: The indecipherable language of government has actually become dangerous to the well-being of the nation. As the federal government claims ever greater powers, its language has become vague to the…   Read full post >>

Church Pink Slips
Channel: Christianity Today  Author: Bobby Ross Jr.
By:  Craig Uffman on April 15, 2009 Excerpt: During the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, grueling choices confront church leaders in places like Granger, Indiana, where the unemployment rate has approached 20 percent. Take Granger Community…   Read full post >>

Referring to Sermon on the Mount, Obama Offers Cautious Optimism
Channel: On Faith  Author: Michael D. Shear and William Branigin
By:  Craig Uffman on April 15, 2009 Excerpt: President Obama today laid out a vision for a new era of U.S. economic prosperity and called on the nation to "get serious" about reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare,…   Read full post >>

A Brief Primer on the Bank Bailout
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: MARTIN FELDSTEIN
By:  Craig Uffman on April 05, 2009 Excerpt: The Treasury's new Public-Private Investment Plan should be regarded as a pilot study to see if this approach can remove impaired assets from the nation's banks. If it works, Treasury…   Read full post >>

A risky new push for immigration legislation
Channel: Los Angeles Times  Author: Peter Wallsten
By:  Craig Uffman on March 28, 2009 Excerpt: Reporting from Washington — With their prospects in Congress sinking along with the economy, liberal advocates of giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship are launching a risky strategy to…   Read full post >>

Some Who Are Out of Work Make Their Own
Channel: New York Times  Author: MATT RICHTEL and JENNA WORTHAM
By:  Craig Uffman on March 14, 2009 Excerpt: SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Andon, 24, a graduate of Duke University in biology, was laid off from a biotech company last May. For months he sought new work. Then, frustrated…   Read full post >>

The Economy and Abortion
Channel: Sojourners  Author: Jim Wallis
By:  Craig Uffman on March 13, 2009 Excerpt: I have written about the importance of social and economic support for women and vulnerable families as effective solutions to lowering the abortion rate. And, it’s not surprising that the…   Read full post >>

Growing gender gaps in pay
Channel: Economist
By:  Craig Uffman on March 13, 2009 Excerpt: Female MBA graduates not only earn significantly less than their male colleagues, but the gap grows over time, according to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The…   Read full post >>

Obama Political Capital Plummeting
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN and SCOTT RASMUSSEN
By:  Craig Uffman on March 13, 2009 Excerpt: Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr.…   Read full post >>

Life in Postprosperity America
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: Peggy Noonan
By:  Craig Uffman on March 13, 2009 Excerpt: It is six months since Lehman fell and the crash (or the great recession, or the collapse—it's time it got its name) began. An aspect of the story given less…   Read full post >>

Fed Didn’t Cause Housing Bubble
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: ALAN GREENSPAN
By:  Craig Uffman on March 12, 2009 Excerpt: We are in the midst of a global crisis that will unquestionably rank as the most virulent since the 1930s. It will eventually subside and pass into history. But how…   Read full post >>

Economists Flunk Obama Team on First Test
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: PHIL IZZO
By:  Craig Uffman on March 11, 2009 Excerpt: U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey. Their…   Read full post >>

Neoliberalism and Higher Education
Channel: New York Times  Author: Stanley Fish
By:  Craig Uffman on March 11, 2009 Excerpt: I’ve been asking colleagues in several departments and disciplines whether they’ve ever come across the term “neoliberalism” and whether they know what it means. A small number acknowledged having heard…   Read full post >>

New Moms Cut Maternity Leave
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: DANA MATTIOLI
By:  Craig Uffman on March 11, 2009 Excerpt: Elizabeth DeLong had hoped to take a year off after having her daughter, Grace, last August. But just a month later, Washington Mutual was seized by federal regulators, making her…   Read full post >>

The Charity Revolt
Channel: Wall Street Journal
By:  Craig Uffman on March 11, 2009 Excerpt: Among those shocked by President Obama's 2010 budget, the most surprising are the true-blue liberals who run most of America's nonprofits, universities and charities. How dare he limit tax deductions…   Read full post >>

Charitable Giving Tax Change Faces Dim Prospects
Channel: NPR  Author: Liz Halloran
By:  Craig Uffman on March 11, 2009 Excerpt: President Obama's plan to reduce the tax deductions that the wealthy can claim for charitable contributions would very likely diminish giving only modestly, philanthropic experts say. The proposed change is…   Read full post >>

Channeling Aquinas on our Economy
By:  Craig Uffman on March 09, 2009
Excerpt:  Editor's note: I think this opinion piece from Tidings, that reminds us of how our Christianity ought to guide navigation in these turbulent times, is so good that I am…   Read full post >>

In Defense of Obamanomics
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON
By:  Craig Uffman on March 09, 2009 Excerpt: President Obama has also proposed a 10-year budget that is faithful to the progressive vision he articulated during his campaign. His budget includes significant investments in health care, energy, the…   Read full post >>

Are High-Speed Rail Projects Part of Our Cure?
Channel: On Faith  Author: Dan Eggen
By:  Craig Uffman on March 09, 2009 Excerpt: The slow ride may soon be over. [The Northern Lights Express] is one of dozens nationwide that are likely to benefit from President Obama's initiative to fund high-speed and intercity…   Read full post >>

Mere Downturn, or Permanent Remaking of America?
Channel: New York Times  Author: PETER S. GOODMAN and JACK HEALY
By:  Craig Uffman on March 07, 2009 Excerpt: As government data revealed that 651,000 more jobs disappeared in February, a sense took hold that growing joblessness may reflect a wrenching restructuring of the American economy. The unemployment rate…   Read full post >>

How will Obama Restructuring Affect Parish Finances?
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
By:  Craig Uffman on March 06, 2009 Excerpt: The president's proposed limitations on the value of itemized deductions for those in the top tax brackets would clobber itemized charitable contributions, half of which are by those at the…   Read full post >>

France is a Perilous Pedagogue
Channel: New York Times  Author: ROGER COHEN
By:  Craig Uffman on March 06, 2009 Excerpt: ...I love France, but I don’t want there to be two of them, least of all if one is in the United States. .... the $3.6 trillion Obama budget made…   Read full post >>

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