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Harvard Business Review

• Handling the Fall-out from a Failing Leader
• Don't Regret Working Too Hard
• The Four Phases of Design Thinking
• Higher Education Is Overrated; Skills Aren't
• Bouncing Back from a Negative 360-Degree Review
• Ben Franklin's MBA Oath
• Start with an Idea
• Fire Your Marketing Manager and Hire A Community Manager
• Advanced Entrepreneurship: Your Every Move, Your Culture
• Does Outsourcing Destroy IT Innovation?

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Robert Reich

• The Final Lesson of BP
• The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs
• We’re In A One-and-a-half Dip Recession
• The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform
• Why We Can't Rely on Foreign Consumers to Rescue American Jobs, and Why Today's "Jobs for America Summit" is a Bad Joke.
• The Root of Economic Fragility and Political Anger
• The Vanishing American Consumer and the Coming Trade War
• Slouching Toward a Double Dip or a Lousy Recovery at Best
• Why China's Currency Announcement is Hokum
• My Father and Alan Greenspan

Financial Times

• Uncertain times for global economic governance
• Laurence Kotlikoff replies to Lord Turner: Part 2
• Laurence Kotlikoff replies to Lord Turner: Part 1
• The great austerity debate
• Is now the time to experiment with negative interest rates?
• The worst is not over in central and eastern Europe
• New sovereign debt management regime should be G20 focus
• FT video: Over-zealous cuts risk UK ‘disaster’
• FT video: Richard Haass on the eurozone crisis
• The world economy is recovering

AFL CIO

• Tell Your Senator to Support State Aid to Save Essential Jobs
• CWA: Let the Senate Breathe and Work, End Republican Filibuster Stranglehold
• New Health Care Law Gives Medicare Lots to Celebrate at 45
• UAW: U.S. Cars on the Road to Success
• Medicare at 45: Health Reform Means New Benefits for Seniors
• House Republicans Block Medical Help for 9/11 Heroes
• Better Access to WARN Act Information Needed for Workers, Communities
• Coalition Launches Drive to Fight Social Security Cuts
• Businessweek Profiles CNA/NNU’s DeMoro
• Judge Blocks Major Parts of Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law

Ron Paul

• Ron Paul Introduces SEC Transparency Act
• What Happens if We Stay?
• Ron Paul: It’s TIME to come home!
• Ron Paul Endorses Peter Schiff and Rick Torres
• Ron Paul Endorses Stephen Bailey for Congress
• Ron Paul’s Statement on the Fair Sentencing Act
• Ron Paul: Let’s repeal the War on Drugs – just like we repealed Prohibition
• Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich join forces to push for U.S. withdrawal from Pakistan
• New Poll: Ron Paul at 13% in New Hampshire
• More Secrets, More Surveillance, Less Security

Securities and Exchange Commission

• SEC Completes Inaugural Teacher Training Workshop
• SEC Charges Corporate Insider Brothers With Fraud
• SEC Charges Citigroup and Two Executives for Misleading Investors About Exposure to Subprime Mortgage Assets
• SEC Chairman Schapiro Announces Open Process for Regulatory Reform Rulemaking
• SEC Publishes Public Request for Comment to Inform Study of Obligations of Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers
• SEC Charges General Electric and Two Subsidiaries with FCPA Violations
• SEC Announces $106 Million Fair Fund Distribution to Harmed Investors in HealthSouth Financial Fraud
• SEC Charges Dell and Senior Executives with Disclosure and Accounting Fraud
• SEC Charges Two New York-Based Accountants With Conducting Ponzi Scheme Against Clients
• SEC Releases Report of the Life Settlements Task Force

Chuck Baldwin

• Calling All Patriot Business Owners
• “Top Secret America”: The Rest Of The Story
• Chuck’s Upcoming Appearances & Interviews
• DC Declares War On States
• Assembly-Line Medicine
• America Is In A Societal Meltdown
• Declaration Of Independence Day For Kids
• The Freedom Documents
• The Internet Must Remain Free
• Fighting For Freedom For 35 Years

Human Events

• The Making of Bobby Jindal
• Uncommon Knowledge - Charles Hill
• Leak City
• Iran Starts To Feel Heat
• Wounded Warriors Battle on Ice
• Muckraker Miller: Chelsea Clinton Wedding List - Spielberg Not Attending, Obama & Oprah Not Invited
• Audio: Bill Clinton's Bucket List
• The Perpetual Campaign Continues
• Is Obamacare Constitutional?
• Mark Levin: Arizona Ruling an Abomination

Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis

• ECRI WLI in Negative Territory 8 Consecutive Weeks, Index Drops to -10.7
• GDP: 3 Years of Massive Downward Revisions; Inventory Adjustments Run their Course; Where to From Here? Fed's Counterproductive Policies
• Should China Dump Dollars for Commodities? What about the "Nuclear Option" of Dumping Treasuries? Can Global Trade Collapse?
• Housing Bubble will Not be Reblown; Foreclosures Increase in 154 of 206 Metro Areas with Population Over 200,000
• Will the "Tiny House" Movement Catch On?
• California Approaches "Fiscal Meltdown"; Schwarzenegger Declares Fiscal Emergency; Fort Worth Texas Ponders Scrapping Defined Benefit Pension Plans
• Email from FedUpUSA regarding Afghanistan
• Bill Gross Ponders "Deep Demographic Doo-Doo"
• Durable Goods Orders "Unexpectedly" Sink; How did Economists Blow the Call?
• Billboard Battle in Michigan - Police Scare Tactics

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BusinessWeek

• The New Abnormal
• Calcium Supplements Linked to Boost in Heart Attack Risk
• How LEGO Revived Its Brand
• Mad Man
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• Google Ripe for a Stock Buyback or Dividend
• Shadow Economies on the Rise Around the World
• Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'
• Commentary: America Sits Out the Race
• A New Dawn for Nuclear?

Congressional Budget Office

• Budgetary Effects for Senate Amendment 4333, a Substitute for H.R. 4213
• H.R. 4173, Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010
• H.R. 4805, Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act
• H.R. 3817, Investor Protection Act of 2009
• H.R. 2142, Government Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Performance Improvement Act of 2010
• Budgetary Effects for Senate Amendment 4301, a Substitute for H.R. 4213
• H.R. 3993, Calling Card Consumer Protection Act
• S. 3362, Sustainable Schools Pollution Reduction Act of 2010
• S. 3104, A bill to permanently authorize Radio Free Asia, and for other purposes
• S. 3066, A bill to correct the application of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 (5 U.S.C. 5304 note) to employees paid saved or retained rates

Early To Rise

• Motivation
• 5 Days’ Superstars
• The Death of Direct Mail
• The Death of Direct Mail
• The Language Perfectionist: A Useful New Language Resource
• Pop Quiz!
• Pop Quiz!
• Today’s Words That Work: Antipodean
• What Jim Brown Knows
• What Jim Brown Knows

Obama HQ

• Today: The President at GM and Chrysler
• A Family Affair
• Joe Biden: Announcing the By the People Fund
• Your Questions—and President Obama's—Answered on HealthReform.gov
• Senate Republicans Block DISCLOSE Act
• Morning News: One By One, Getting California’s First-Time ‘08 Voters Back to the Polls
• Michelle Obama: "Join me in wishing Barack a happy birthday"
• President Obama: ‘A vote against the DISCLOSE Act is a vote to allow corporate and special interest takeovers of our elections’
• David Plouffe Visits OFA Volunteers: "My money is on you guys"
• President Obama on the Republican Economic Agenda: "The same policies that led us into this recession"

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2010 (advance estimate)
• U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2010
• Gross Domestic Product for the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Research and Development Satellite Account, 2010
• Personal Income and Outlays, May 2010
• U.S. International Investment Position, 2009
• Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts, 1st Quarter 2010
• State Quarterly Personal Income, 1st quarter 2009-1st quarter 2010
• U.S. International Transactions, First Quarter 2010
• Gross Domestic Product for Guam

Dept of Labor

• Major Economic Indicators Latest Numbers

Senate Floor Today

• H.R.5900
  Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• S.3567
  A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Broadway in Lynbrook, New York, as the "Navy Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building". (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.R.5278
  To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 405 West Second Street in Dixon, Illinois, as the "President Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building". (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.R.5395
  To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 151 North Maitland Avenue in Maitland, Florida, as the "Paula Hawkins Post Office Building". (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• S.Res.602
  A resolution expressing support for the goals and ideals of National Infant Mortality Awareness Month 2010. (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]

House Floor Today

• H.R.5982
  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the expansion of certain information reporting requirements to corporations and to payments for property, to eliminate loopholes which encourage companies to move operations offshore, and for other purposes. (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.R.3534
  Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.R.5851
  Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010 (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.R.5414
  To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina, and for other purposes. (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.Res.1566
  Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the pioneering of college students whose determination and nonviolent resistance led to the desegregation of lunch counters and places of public accommodation over a 5-year period. (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.R.5901
  Real Estate Jobs and Investment Act of 2010 (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.Res.1558
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that fruit and vegetable and commodity producers are encouraged to display the American flag on labels of products grown in the United States, reminding us all to take pride in the healthy bounty produced by American farmers and workers. (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]
• H.Res.1574
  Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3534) to provide greater efficiencies, transparency, returns, and accountability in the administration of Federal mineral and energy resources by consolidating administration of various Federal energy minerals management and leasing programs into one entity to be known as the Office of Federal Energy and Minerals […]
• H.R.5981
  To increase the flexibility of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development with respect to the amount of premiums charged for FHA single family housing mortgage insurance, and for other purposes. (07/30/2010 legislative day) […]

Federal Reserve Working Papers

• IFDP1001: Imperfect Credibility and the Zero Lower Bound on the Nominal Interest Rate
• IFDP1000: Interpreting Investment-Specific Technology Shocks
• IFDP999: Monetary Policy and the Cyclicality of Risk
• IFDP998: Immigration, Remittances and Business Cycles
• 2010-39: The Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy and Its Effect on Mortgage Lending
• 2010-38: Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
• 2010-37: Granularity Adjustment for Mark-to-Market Credit Risk Models
• 2010-36: The Effect of Gasoline Prices on Household Location
• 2010-35: The Depth of Negative Equity and Mortgage Default Decisions
• 2010-32: Consumption Responses to Permanent and Transitory Shocks to House Appreciation
• 2010-34: Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts
• 2010-33: The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
• 2010-28: Industry Evidence on the Effects of Government Spending
• IFDP997: News and Sovereign Default Risk in Small Open Economies
• 2010-31: Measuring the Return on Spending on the Medicare HMO Program

CNBC

• Week Ahead: Markets Look to Economy After July's Bounce
• Cramer: A Weak Jobs Report Will Erase Your Profits
• NY Mets Owner Wilpon Sued by Madoff Victims
• US House Votes to End Deepwater Drilling Moratorium
• Signs Emerge of Oil Spill Recovery Entering New Phase
• Market Predicts Election Outcomes: Economist
• Will August Bring Market Gains Similar to July?
• Intel Closer to Buying Infineon Unit: Report
• Emboldened RIM Readies New Touchscreen BlackBerry
• LA Trial Will Determine Owner of Gigantic Emerald
• IMF, Spain Differ Over Pace of Economic Recovery
• March of the Profitless IPOs: More to Come
• Citi Settlement Shows Low Cost of Lying to Markets
• Double-Dip? Doesn't Matter, as Investors Are Still Scared
• Mary J. Blige Brands, Markets New Fragrance
• Chelsea Clinton's $3 Million Wedding
• Wall Street Sees Better Times After Mid-Term Elections
• Chinese Investor to Take Key Role at Berkshire: WSJ
• China Becomes Second Biggest World Economy
• Marc Faber Questions if Dow Could Hit 1,000

MarketWatch

• House approves lifting liability cap on oil firms
• House bill would ease offshore drilling moratorium
• House OKs new standards for offshore drilling
• Two Fla. failed banks raise year's tally to 106
• FDIC securities backed by $471.3 mln in mortgages
• FDIC closes failed-bank mortgage securities sale
• Ga.'s Northwest Bank becomes year's 104th failure
• Nasdaq Composite down 0.7% for week
• Dow industrials up 0.4% for week
• U.S. stocks end week near flatline

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