Herman Cain says no animals were harmed in these bizarre Web ads that use animals as a metaphor for the economy.

In an exclusive interview, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says that Republicans must act to help heal the economy.

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Greece's debt issues could trigger a credit crisis and recession in Europe and the U.S. CNN's Lisa Sylvester explains.

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By CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

New York (CNN) – Bill Clinton disagrees with his former political adviser James Carville. "It's never a good thing for the president to panic," the former president told me during a lengthy interview at his Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York.

I had asked him about Carville's recent recommendation in a CNN.com opinion piece that it's time for the White House to panic and for the president to fire some people and indict some Wall Street big shots for supposedly causing the country's economic meltdown. Carville, a CNN political contributor, is deeply worried about the economic and political crisis facing the president right now just as he gears up for his re-election campaign.
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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks about what he would do to create jobs and turn the economy around.

U.S. Census Bureau statistics indicate 46 million Americans live in poverty. CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports.

Forty percent of unemployed older Americans remain out of work for more than a year, as Athena Jones reports.

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By CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

(CNN) – President Obama really needs to deliver Thursday night when he addresses a joint session of Congress. I’m not just talking about the politics of the big speech. I am talking about really delivering for the American people.

He needs to come with an understandable and doable plan that will help turn things around for millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans. That means getting some package through Congress; otherwise, the words won’t have any practical job creation benefit.
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By CNN's Wolf Blitzer

(CNN) - Economists will tell you the United States is not in a double-dip recession. Don’t tell that to the American people. Our new CNN/ORC International poll shows that 82 percent of the American people believe the U.S. is in an economic recession. Only 18 percent say we are not yet in recession.

The technical definition of a recession is simple: two successive quarters of negative growth. The first three months of this year showed tiny growth; the second three months showed very modest growth. We are now in the midst of the third quarter and won’t know the results for a while.
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By CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

(CNN) – Now we know that President Obama wants to deliver his major speech on jobs next Wednesday night before a joint session of the Senate and House. I've been calling it a "make or break" speech because jobs remains issue No. 1 in his bid for re-election and there are still so many millions of Americans out of a job. There are millions more looking for a better job. Unless the president can turn things around between now and November 2012, his re-election will be in very deep trouble irrespective of his Republican challenger.

For the millions who are unemployed, the nation is not only in a recession, it's in a depression. That's certainly what it feels like for them.
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