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Obama Holds 3rd Press Conference on Economic Recovery Plans

2008-12-05T10:56:19Z

Barack Obama press conference, November 26, 2008

Obama's Tax Plan - Austan Goolsbee

2008-12-02T00:56:38Z

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Austan Goolsbee, economics professor at the University of Chicago and senior economic advisor to the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential campaign, compares Obama's and John McCain's respective tax plans.

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Advisors from the Obama and McCain camps - Austan Goolsbee from the University of Chicago and John Taylor from Stanford University, respectively - lay out the candidates' tax plans and duel over what they would mean for the American economy and the average family.

Leonard Burman of the Urban Institute-Brookings Institute joint Tax Policy Center and Joel Slemrod, Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research referee - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

Austan Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation,Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts,and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He was until recently the lead economic advisor to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

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Could Infrastructure Spending Save the Economy?

2008-10-21T10:32:36Z

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Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg, L.P., suggests that increased spending on infrastructure may help revive the economy.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses a Georgetown audience on the state of the American economic crisis, the steps that should be taken and the steps that have not yet been taken. He characterizes federal responses to date as being akin to "buying an alcoholic a drink."

Michael Bloomberg is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the Mayor of New York City. He was elected mayor in 2001, then reelected to a second term in 2005.

Bloomberg graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966. His 1997 autobiography was titled Bloomberg by Bloomberg.

Bloomberg is the founder and former CEO of financial news and data company Bloomberg, L.P.

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Nuclear Power and Energy Reform - Panel Discussion

2008-10-31T03:30:05Z

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New Republic Contributing Editor Cass Sunstein, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) discuss the role nuclear power may play in future U.S. energy reform. This excerpt is taken from a panel discussion entitled "The Politics of Green," recorded at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

FORA.tv coverage of the DNC: for a.tv/topic/democratic_convention

The New Republic on FORA.tv: fora.tv

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In conjunction with the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, The New Republic hosted a panel discussion on environmental issues featuring leaders in Congress and from NGOs who talked about the energy and environmental policy of the next administration.

Cass R. Sunstein is the Felix Frankfurter Chair at the University of Chicago Law School and a Contributing Editor for the New Republic. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman Jr. (born October 3, 1943) is the junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico. He has been in the Senate since 1983 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1982, when he defeated Republican incumbent and former astronaut Harrison Schmitt. He was re-elected in 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.

Ed Markey is a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Malden, Middlesex County, Mass., July 11, 1946; attended Immaculate Conception Grammar School, Malden, Mass.; graduated from Malden Catholic High School, Malden, Mass., 1964; B.A., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1968; J.D., Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, Mass., 1972; lawyer, private practice; United States Army Reserve, 1968-1973; member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1973-1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Torbert H. Macdonald, reelected to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (November 2, 1976-present).

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What Everyone Should Know About Business Part 1

2008-12-05T10:35:46Z

Business Plans

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Ellen Announces Marriage Plans

2008-10-18T21:29:24Z

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Hillary Clinton Never Had A Plan "B'

2008-10-24T09:31:45Z

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Paul Polak - Thinking Outside the Box on Global Poverty

2008-10-17T15:31:37Z

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Author and activist Paul Polak discusses innovative approaches to fighting global poverty.

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Meet Paul Polak author of Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail that explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty - Books Inc.

International Development Enterprises (IDE) founder Paul Polak has collected his experiences from more than 25 years finding innovative solutions to poverty in a new book, "Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail."

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Weekend Plans

2008-12-04T09:13:58Z

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Dennis Kucinich - On Iraq

2008-10-24T15:29:48Z

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Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich gives his views on the Iraq War.

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Get to Know the Candidate: 2008 U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in a conversation with Joseph Epstein hosted by The Commonwealth Club of California.

Ohio Congressman Kucinich engages in a wide-ranging conversation about his political views and background.

Dennis Kucinich is an American politician of the Democratic party. He served as the 53rd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1977 to 1979, a tumultuous term in which he survived a recall election and was successful in a battle against selling the municipal electric utility.

He today serves as the Representative (Member of Congress) for the 10th District of Ohio. It includes most of western Cleveland, as well as such suburbs as Parma and Cuyahoga Heights. He ran for President of the United States in 2004 and has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President in 2008. He is currently the chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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Listening Post-World leaders holiday plans- 24Aug 07- Part 2

2008-10-25T03:30:45Z

Putin and Sarkozy go head to head for the best holiday photo opportunity.

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Listening Post-World leaders holiday plans- 24Aug 07- Part 1

2008-10-25T03:30:43Z

Putin and Sarkozy go head to head for the best holiday photo opportunity.

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Joe Biden - Moving Forward in Iraq

2008-10-20T03:29:53Z

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