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Jobs: Not As Bad As We Thought?

I would be remiss if I didn’t bring to your attention a press release today from the Labor Department. It announces that it has recalculated job gains and losses over the past few years and – drum roll please – we gained back more than originally thought. Specifically we undercounted the gains during the year […]

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Pity Romney

Maybe not. But on purely humanitarian grounds you have to feel sorry for him. Such is the toxic mix of the Republican platform that in order to make himself appear less plutocratic and to show his common touch he has to talk glowingly of his Romney care health reforms in Massachusetts, which is anathema to […]

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Here We Go A-Wallowing

This is what floundering looks like. Well, perhaps I am being a bit harsh. After all we had a couple of good reports earlier this week, and today’s news on new claims for unemployment assistance is fairly decent. But the final revision of second quarter GDP and the durable goods data confirm that the economy […]

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