PolitiFact | Have private-sector jobs grown by 3 million in 22 months, with the best annual totals since 2005?

Politifact rated the Presidents statement about private job growth "half true."  However, the article fails to actualy identify anything that the President said that isnt 100% completely true.

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Jeffrey Sachs: "That's not a free market, that's a game"

"The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don't put government in to meddle. Then with that freedom of maneuver they took huge gambles, and even made illegal actions, and then broke the world system.

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Solyndra Was An Anomaly, Independent Report Finds

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We Are the 99.9% - NYTimes.com

Still, don’t some of the very rich get that way by producing innovations that are worth far more to the world than the income they receive? Sure, but if you look at who really makes up the 0.1 percent, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that, by and large, the member …

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A new euro crisis strategy: deny the debt

It’s a deceptively simple way of dealing with a crushing sovereign debt: Declare the loans illegal, or “odious.” The doctrine of odious debt was first proposed in 1927 by an obscure legal scholar named Alexander Sack, but did not gain currency until the late  …

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Federal pay gap widens, report says - The Washington Post

A report by the Bureau of Labor found that on average Federal Employees are underpaid by 26.3% compared to similar non-federal jobs.

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Millionaires(less than 1% of the world's population) Control 39% of Global Wealth - The Wealth Report - WSJ

Here’s another stat that the Occupy Wall Streeters can hoist on their placards: The world’s millionaires and billionaires now control 38.5% of the world’s wealth. According to the latest Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse, the 29,7 million people in the  …

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Political Animal - Revisiting the 9-9-9 nonsense

Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan does not make any sense at all.

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Obama Jobs Plan Prevents 2012 Recession in Survey of Economists - Bloomberg

According to a survey of economists, Obama's jobs plan would help avoid a 2012 recession.

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Bruce Bartlett: Misrepresentations, Regulations and Jobs

Bruce Bartlett, who served George HW Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and Ron Paul expains why he believes the GOP position on jobs is a canard.

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