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Economics / GDP, inflation, jobs, Keynes, Obama, unemployment, wages /

What A Depressing Week

September 16, 2011

I tried my hardest to hide from the flow of depressing news this week, but here I am on Friday feeling battered by it all. This was a week in which we had our worst suspicions confirmed. Yes, the American economy is now deeply divided into haves and have nots. Yes, the so-called recovery is […]

Economics / fiscal policy, jobs, Obama, stimulus, unemployment /

Obama’s Meaningless Speech

September 9, 2011

It has been well received. It had lots of nice things in it. It might have helped our unemployment problem. That’s it. It was a political speech designed to begin Obama’s re-election campaign. We have a year of this pointless stuff to come. Such is the total collapse of our political process that everything said, […]

Economics / deficits, GDP, interest rates, jobs, Keynes, recovery, unemployment /

Post Labor Day Pieces

September 8, 2011

Labor Day is gone again. Another year into our economic malaise and little to show for it. The feeling I sense most is one of frustration, mixed with a growing skepticism that anyone knows what to do to get the country rolling again. The most popular narrative in the media is that we need to […]

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