Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»
President Obama made a bold pronouncement in his first Oval Office speech last month: "Now is the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission to unleash America's innovation," he said. It's not too big of a project, ...READ»
Critics of the Works Progress Administration saw it as nearly communist, but the agency, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a Depression-era stimulus package, delivered a solid return on investment. A piddling ...READ»
Good news on the clean tech front: a report from Datamonitor claims that global investments in the sector will climb this year by an impressive 35% in the face of flailing climate change legislation. According to the report, ...READ»
$32 million in stimulus funds will go towards providing Internet access in a part of the country that also lacks electricity, phone service, and running water.READ»
Currently, the unemployment rate exceeds 10% nationally. In the year ahead, most 2010 projections forecast two-million new personal bankruptcies, and the continuation of the rising $13-trillion national debt for ...READ»
Hello, home-court advantage! According to new data from the World Economic Forum, Switzerland -- which hosts the WEF's annual meeting -- has the most competitive economy in the world, besting the second-ranked United States, which had ...READ»
As the economy sluggishly progresses towards recovery and President Obama announces new spending freezes. The Federal Reserve is focused on pulling back the billions in stimulus money pumped out to dampen the financial crisis. Set now ...READ»
For the 2,000 attendees at this annual road show, the recession could have been one giant pothole. "When the economy goes bad, the guys who usually work on highways and state roads step down into the smaller pavement markets, so ...READ»
The good news: The unemployment rate in the U.S. isn't rising. The bad news: It's still holding steady at 10%, and 85,000 jobs were lost just in the past month. The nation's luck might turn around, however, with news today that the ...READ»
Oh, GM. How we love and loathe you at the same time. The same company that aided in the obliteration of the U.S. auto industry is now taking small steps to build it back up. GM's prized Chevy Volt plug-in electric vehicle won't be ...READ»
As 2009 draws to a close, I’m joining all the other critics, columnists, pundits, and bloviators in taking a backwards look at the year and commenting on the most momentous events, at least from my perspective as a writer in the ...READ»
In case you have not seen it, here's a great article that supports new business start ups in 2010 http://www.entrepreneur.com/trends/index.htmlIt's not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it's not the $787 billion American ...READ»
Recently I’ve been working on a book about green careers, which will be part of a four-volume set called Progressive Careers, to be published by JIST next fall. As I noted in a previous blog, much of the information about green ...READ»
The latest--and perhaps most hazardous--roadblock on the Chevy Volt's journey to a car dealership near you might just be the unexpected resignation of General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson. Henderson has only been running the ...READ»
