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Economics / debt ceiling, government spending, monetary policy, national debt, Republicans /

Oh Dear: More Debt Silly Stuff

January 7, 2013

What is it that we text each other? OMG? Well here’s an OMG moment, one that illustrates why we will not be having a very edifying debate about debt. Our esteemed Senator John Conryn, a Republican from Texas, wrote this last week: “It may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to […]

Economics / debt ceiling, government spending, monetary policy, Obama, Republicans /

Debt Ceiling Nonsense

January 7, 2013

When a very old matter of convenience becomes a contemporary pain in the butt strange things get said, people act peculiarly, and really stupid stuff happens. Meet the debt ceiling. Only in America. The debt ceiling was introduced back in World War I as a convenience. The constitution, that fusty bedrock of American politics, gives […]

Breaking News, Economics / job creation, jobs, unemployment /

Jobs Report

January 4, 2013

I would be remiss not to remark on this week’s employment news. The economy added a decent 155,000 jobs in December. Coincidentally that is almost exactly the average monthly gain we have experienced for the past two years. So the recent trend continues. We add sufficient jobs to absorb new workers coming into the workforce, […]

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