27 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
We're now in the second week of the new Obama administration and his approval ratings are still hovering at a high 68%. In spite of facing enormous challenges, or more ...READ»
As the President's stimulus package approaches $1 trillion, the Senate is looking to cut the fat. In the senators' sights: about $6 billion in funding for expanded broadband access, much of it for wireless access in rural areas, among ...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»
Today marks 100 days of the Obama administration, so I’m going to join the media pack and make a few comments on what we can learn, specifically about careers, from what has happened so far.
You might think that the most ...READ»
If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»
A two-year window spurred by the new Administration's providing economic stimulus funding for purchasing EMR software could lead to a veritable "bonanza" as clinicians rush to take advantage prior to January 1, 2011, when the money kicks in.READ»
Read The New York Times, The Washington Post, or the domestic cable news websites, and you'd think the American economy was combusting before our eyes. Foreign newspapers, however, are much more sanguine on their English-language ...READ»
I was supposed to be a guest on the Today Show earlier this week to speak about job-hunting, specifically the effects on jobs of the stimulus package--the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But I had to bow out because ...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»
Most of the projects in the the President's $900 billion stimulus package are the kind of public works the government has executed for decades: trains, bridges, and so on. But the "Energy" projects that will be eligible for funding ...READ»
As talk of a possible recession grows, so too does consideration of a second economic fiscal stimulus package. Indeed, House Speaker Pelosi has spoken of the need for a stimulus package potentially as high as $300 billion in order ...READ»
Democrats, now backed by Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, are calling for a second stimulus package which could cost as much as $300 billion. To clarify, that’s $300 billion on top of the $168 billion stimulus passed last ...READ»
In mid-June, I posted a blog entry about the status of the stimulus plan, which I have been following closely ever since writing a book about it (Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan). I rushed out this book before the ...READ»
I have been paying more attention to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 than to most legislation, largely because it is the focus of my latest book, Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan. As the title ...READ»
First-time homebuyers can now take advantage of a tax credit thanks to the new Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The credit is available for homes purchased between April 9, 2008 and July 1, 2009. The maximum amount allowed ...READ»
Lots of people will probably get some nice, salty pork with the coming economic stimulus plan, but designers and arts institutions will likely get shafted if Tom Coburn, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, has any say in the ...READ»
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been in effect long enough for news to come out about some of the specifics it contains. I’m especially interested in these specifics because when I put together a book about ...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»
