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Economics / austerity, debt ceiling, government spending, Obama, Republicans, Simpson-Bowles /

Sequester – Now What?

March 4, 2013

If you’re like me and think that the economy neither needs, nor can stomach, government spending cuts reading the media frenzy over the sequester has a distinctly surrealistic air. What on earth are we to make of the entire episode? Instead of substantial analysis all we seem to get from the media is a stream […]

Commentary, Economics / austerity, GDP, government spending, Obama, Republicans /

Sequester Day

March 1, 2013

Well here we are. And there we go. I doubt many of us really imagined that there would be a sudden out break of sanity in Washington. We haven’t ben disappointed. The war raging down there has produced another epic failure. It looks as if the sequester will go into effect. So what happens now? […]

Economics / austerity, business investment, consumer confidence, consumption, demand, economic policy, GDP, government spending, growth, inventories, trade /

Growth, But Barely?

February 28, 2013

Today’s headline is that the economy grew, just, in the fourth quarter last year. GDP rose at an annual rate of 0.1%, down from 3.1% in the third quarter and at the slowest pace in almost two years. But things aren’t that bad. On the contrary the report is quite encouraging. this is one of […]

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