Posts Tagged ‘economic stimulus’
Top 10 Most Wasteful Stimulus Projects
June 26th, 2009 | 
Author: Tom Coburn, a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma issued a report last week entitled 100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion. The report highlights 100 projects currently being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment act (a.k.a. stimulus bill) that are utterly wasteful. The following is a list of the Top 10 projects that Coburn’s oversight team deemed to be the biggest wastes of taxpayers’ money. I encourage you to check out the full report as the headlines reproduced here directly from Coburn’s report are not always indicative of how ridiculous these projects actually are. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Top 10 Lists | 
Tags: 100 Stimulus Projects, American Recovery and Reinvestment act, Coburn, Eco Passage, economic stimulus, Florida, FutureGen, Institutional Investor Online, Johnstown, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Perkins, Rishy Mehrotra, Senator, Social Security, stimulus package, Tom Coburn, Union, Wisconsin | 
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Will Inflation Burst the Stimulus Bubble?
Inflation remains a threat as the dollar weakens. Will the U.S. be able to pay back our foreign debt obligations, or will we collectively make like property owners and default?
Posted in Economy |
Tags: default, economic stimulus, inflation, Peter Schiff, weakening dollar |
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