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9:50 AM ET, August 5, 2011

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Wrong Worries  —  In case you had any doubts, Thursday's more than 500-point plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average and the drop in interest rates to near-record lows confirmed it: The economy isn't recovering, and Washington has been worrying about the wrong things.
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Floyd Norris / New York Times:
Time to Say It: Double Dip Recession May Be Happening  —  Double dip may be back.  —  It has been three decades since the United States suffered a recession that followed on the heels of the previous one.  But it could be happening again.  The unrelenting negative economic news of the past …
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Inside Obama's 50th birthday party  —  Rapper Jay-Z, actor Tom Hanks and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among those who joined President Barack Obama's longtime friends to celebrate his 50th birthday with a barbeque bash at the White House.  —  After sending the White House press corps home early …
Discussion: Obama Foodorama and The Note
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Lynn Sweet:
Obama's 50th Birthday bash: Stevie Wonder, Chris Rock, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg, Herbie Hancock, Jay Z
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
ABCNEWS:
FAA Shutdown: Senate to Pass House Bill, End Shutdown  —  With a deal in place to end the Federal Aviation Administration's nearly two-week shutdown, relief is on the way for the more than 75,000 construction workers, engineers and safety inspectors who lost their paychecks when FAA funding expired July 23.
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Keith Laing / The Hill:
Reid announces deal to end FAA furloughs
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
GOP wants transparent ‘supercommittee’
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.A.A. Impasse That Hit 4,000 Ends, for Now
Discussion: Daily Kos and msnbc.com
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Gingrich fatalistic on Ames straw poll  —  On Fox News last night, Newt Gingrich didn't sound particularly interested in results from next Saturday's straw poll in Ames, Iowa. … He also sort of dissed the Iowa GOP on the straw poll.
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Wall Street Journal:
Behind a GOP Contender's Iowa Surge  —  MARION, Iowa—To understand why presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has surged in Iowa, watch when she is handed a baby.  On a recent stop here, she took off her bracelet, dangled it before the infant and cradled him while he teethed on the pearls.
Discussion: msnbc.com
New York Times:
Markets Fall as Global Worries Multiply  —  HONG KONG — Stock markets plunged in the Asia-Pacific region on Friday, following the sharp sell-off that had battered U.S. and European markets the previous day as investors' fears about European debt levels and U.S. growth prospects intensified.
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Nervous Investors Chase Low-Risk Assets
Discussion: ThinkProgress and American Power
New York Times:
Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks  —  The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take priority …
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
$30 Million Pouring In to Influence Wisconsin Recall Elections  —  A voter in Glendale, Wis., casts a ballot in a Democratic primary on Thursday, July 12, 2011, as part of recall efforts against Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling.  Darling is one of six Republican state senators being targeted …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Henry Blodget / Politics:
Here's The Problem With This Market Crash...  Well, it's deja vu all over again.  —  For anyone who followed the market crashes of 2000-2002 and 2007-2009—especially the crash of 2007-2009—the 512-point drop in the Dow feels awfully familiar.  —  And as those market crashes reminded us …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
What Caused The Deficit?  A Reply To Megan McArdle  —  One of the most effective Republican themes of the last two years has been blaming President Obama for the explosive growth in the budget deficit since 2009.  The accusation that “Obama's spending binge” has blown up the deficit …
Burgess Everett / The Politico:
FNC analyst: 'I've pulled my punches' on Palin  —  A pair of Fox News employees offered a brief but telling glimpse of what it is like to be a coworker with a woman who may or may not run for president in 2012: Sarah Palin.  —  On Wednesday after showing a Tuesday clip of Palin's angry rebuke …
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Associated Press:
Fox's Beckel, Gutfeld say they were joking about pulling punches on Palin
Discussion: Mediaite and Crooks and Liars
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
July payrolls rise soothes recession fears  —  (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated more than expected in July as private employers stepped up hiring, a development that eased fears the economy was sliding into a fresh recession.  —  Nonfarm payrolls increased 117,000 …
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
Dow Down 500: Should Obama Resign?  —  The worldwide market plunge since the signing of the U.S. debt agreement tells us one thing above all: Almost no one on the planet has confidence in the leadership of Barack Obama.  —  A CEO with such a disastrous first three years as our president …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
U.S. Posts Stronger Job Gains Amid Fear  —  As the United States economy continued to wobble, employers added 117,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department reported on Friday, a number that was above analysts' expectations.  —  The figure, far more than the 18,000 net new jobs originally reported in June …
The Huffington Post:
New York Attorney General Accuses Bank Of New York Mellon Of Fraud, Moves To Block Bank Of America's Mortgage Deal … Bank Of America , Foreclosures , Bank Of New York Mellon , Countrywide Financial , Eric Schneiderman , New York Attorney General , Mortgage-Backed Securities , Business News
Discussion: Washington Post and Firedoglake
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
Pelosi's Secret ‘Anti-Terror’ Strategy  —  No it has nothing to do with al-Qeada, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told a group of liberal bloggers Thursday that she has super-secret plan to combat the GOP's “hostage-taking” mentality and prevent a repeat of the debt limit debate …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The reason the markets are diving  —  (Scott Olson - GETTY IMAGES) Washington likes to talk about the economy in terms of things it can control.  Spending and deficits.  Stimulus.  Policy uncertainty.  —  But the Dow Jones isn't diving because spending has risen, deficits have grown or stimulus policy has changed.
Jim Brunner / Seattle Times:
Kucinich gets hero's welcome at union confab  —  Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich says he still hasn't made up his mind on whether he'll run for a congressional seat here in 2012.  —  But he's back in the state today, and got a terrific platform to endear himself to a key Democratic constituency.
Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
IRS: 235,000 millionaires  —  President Barack Obama and many Democrats are talking about raising taxes on the wealthy, but few Americans actually fit that bill, data released this week by the Internal Revenue Service suggests.  —  People and households earning more than $1 million annually …
Blake Ellis / CNNMoney.com:
Food stamp use rises to record 45.8 million  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.  —  The number of Americans using the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program …
Clive Crook / The Atlantic Online:
Time for QE3, and Then Some  —  The global beating shares just took had many causes, no doubt.  Still disgusted by the US debt-ceiling fiasco, I am apt to give that masterclass in malice and incompetence more of the blame than it really deserves: the talk in markets today was more about signs …
Jacob Weisberg / Financial Times:
Washington's appetite for self-destruction  —  It is difficult to remember a more dismal moment in American politics.  The debt ceiling crisis and the agreement that ended it point to deep dysfunction in our system.  In a variety of ways, the episode portends continued short-term economic misery and long-term national decline.
Discussion: FT Alphaville and The New Editor
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Matt Damon's got a lot to learn  —  Matt Damon is not a genius.  He just plays one in the movies.  —  At last week's “Save Our Teachers” rally in Washington ("save them" from what — the private sector?)  Damon announced that incentives — like bonuses for good performance or ending tenure for bad ones — don't work for teachers.
Discussion: Opinion L.A.
Matt McGrath / BBC:
Arctic ‘tipping point’ may not be reached  —  The team said they had found an indirect method to give a picture of the ice cover dating back 11,000 years  —  Scientists say current concerns over a tipping point in the disappearance of Arctic sea ice may be misplaced.
 
 
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Gillian Tett / Financial Times:
Eurozone crisis resembles US turmoil in 2008
Ian Cobain / Guardian:
UK's secret policy on torture revealed
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Arianna Huffington: Nobody Believes Obama's Top Priority Is Jobs - It's Getting Reelected
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
Ned Potter / ABCNEWS:
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Hatch, Coburn seek $600 billion in savings by cutting federal workforce
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
So What Now?  —  The stock market seems to be telling us …
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette and alicublog
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Time for Obama to be feared by the Tea Party
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Why defense spending should be cut
Chris Halsne / KIRO-TV:
Cartoonist Targeted With Criminal Probe For Mocking Police
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