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Steering away from the fiscal cliff — and into a ditch
Efforts to avert the "fiscal cliff" offer great drama, but they won't solve Washington's budget woes and could precipitate another recession — or worse. The Budget Act of 2011 requires the president and Congress to agree on a nine-year, $1.2...
Tags: Government Health Care, Public Finance, Trade Balance, Social Security, Finance
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There's a reason the economy isn't generating jobs
The economy added 96,000 jobs in August, down from 141,000 in July and not nearly enough to keep pace with population growth. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent only because 581,000 workers quit looking for work and are no longer counted in the...
Tags: Public Finance, Trade Balance, Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Consumers
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To win, Romney needs a strategy for China
China should be at the center of the 2012 Republican campaign for the White House. Unless Mitt Romney emphasizes specific solutions for creating jobs by ending unnecessary outsourcing to the Middle Kingdom, he won't win. President Barack Obama's...
Tags: White House, Conservation, Mitt Romney, Labor Markets, International Organizations
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Morici: 8.5 percent unemployment may be as good as it gets
The economy added 200,000 jobs in December, and unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent. Going forward, unemployment is not likely to fall much further and may rise again.
Fourth quarter growth was exceptionally strong as the global economy recovered...Tags: Public Finance, Business, Unemployment, China Earthquake (2010), Health Insurance Cost
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Obama should focus on trade, energy, deregulation
America is in crisis.
The new normal is not good enough. The unemployed can't find jobs, the old can't retire and those in between live in constant fear of being tapped on the shoulder and thrust into the abyss.
Property values are lower than a snake'...Tags: Trade Balance, Companies and Corporations, Health Insurance Cost, Business, Unemployment Benefits
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Ripley's opens Odditorium at Harborplace
Ripley's Believe It or Not, one of the first of several new tenants opening for the summer tourist season at Harborplace in downtown Baltimore, will open Saturday in the Light Street Pavilion. Ripley Entertainment Inc. said exhibits at the Inner Harbor...Tags: Justice System, Harry Potter (fictional character), GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Harborplace, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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China currency bill: America fights back
The China currency bill is the most significant jobs bill Congress could pass. It enjoys the bipartisan support of nearly 80 Republican and Democratic senators, yet President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner oppose it, illustrating that both...Tags: Trade Balance, University of Maryland, College Park, Health Insurance Cost, Petroleum Industry, Democratic Party
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Low-polluting trucks key to reducing oil imports
More than 70 percent of the oil used in the United States is for transportation. If we want to reduce oil imports and address the trade deficit, we need to find ways to make our cars and trucks more efficient and run on cleaner fuels. Such opportunities...Tags: Trade Balance, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Government, Investments, Vehicles
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Customs inspectors in Baltimore keep pests out
The sweet aroma of rice fills the air as David Ng steps forward in a Southeast Baltimore warehouse to inspect a shipment of hundreds of sacks of imported basmati rice. He folds back the stitched seams of the 40-pound burlap sacks holding grain that have...Tags: Office and Retail Spaces, India, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Symptoms, Rentals
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Space for port industries
Sun StaffA peninsula in South Baltimore that was the site of asphalt refining and storage for decades could, within the next year, become a hub for the type of businesses that are increasingly being squeezed from the shores of Baltimore. The 60-acre site is among...Tags: Trammell Crow Company, Companies and Corporations, Business, Fishing, BP Plc
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Crab factory
Sun ReportersBy 9 a.m. the crab boats have already been coming and going from the pier for close to five hours, with migrant Burmese workers laboring to unload, sort, weigh and steam crabs that are destined for dinner plates on the other side of the world....Tags: Globalization, Shrimp, Wages and Pensions, Plant Openings, Oysters
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