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2010-10-11       The Daily Brief     Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner AP Robert Kuttner: Housing prices are declining again, despite record low mortgage interest rates (available only to blue chip borrowers), which creates a serious drag on the economy. And the housing market won't return to normal until the mortgage mess is resolved. But the belated recognition that millions of mortgages are inadequately documented could be a blessing in disguise. It could force the administration to come up with stronger medicine both to clean up the banks and to help distressed homeowners. Click here to read more. Mitchell Bard: The Tea Party All-Stars: The Worst of Extreme GOP Midterm Candidates As Coach Bill Parcells said, you are what your record says you are. And the Republican record says that their slate is filled with out-of-the-mainstream, clearly unqualified, Tea Party-influenced candidates. Melody Moezzi: A Muslim's Defense of Geert Wilders I'm disgusted by the bigoted ideology of Islamophobes like Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. But to try someone in a court of law, just for running his mouth, is inherently abhorrent to me. Robert Creamer: If You Like the Recession, You'd Love "Speaker Boehner" To escape a period of long-term economic stagnation, we need an major shot of additional stimulus now. But we will never get it -- at least in the near term -- if Republicans take control of one of the houses of Congress. Robert Reich: Why Democrats Should Not Join in Economic Scapegoating China bashing doesn't educate the public about what's truly at stake economically and what must be done in the years ahead. Worse: It reinforces the politics of resentment, and further legitimizes other forms of isolationism and xenophobia. Krystal Ball: The Next Glass Ceiling Society has to accept that women of my generation have sexual lives that are going to leak into the public sphere. Sooner or later, this is a reality that has to be faced, or many young women in my generation will not be able to run for office.     HuffPost News Carl Paladino: Don't Be 'Brainwashed' Into Thinking Homosexuality Is 'Equally Valid' (VIDEO) Nobel Economics Prizes 2010 Announced; 2 Americans Win Editrix Showdown: Leaked IMs About The Tina Brown/Arianna Huffington Feud! Two New York Polls Give Gillibrand And Cuomo Big Leads Brooks Conrad Errors Doom Braves In Crucial Playoff Game   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy

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