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Economics / Bush, deficits, fiscal policy, GDP, Obama, Pawlenty, Reagan, recession, recovery, Ryan, stimulus /

Election Dreamscapes

June 13, 2011

Scary but true: we are about to enter the next presidential election process. Yes the election is way off in the future, but the American electoral process is so cumbersome and expensive we have to get a good running start. Our bevy of candidates all have a lot of fund raising and jockeying to do. […]

Economics /

Stagnation Abounds

June 9, 2011

Yes, I know. The latest spin being presented by those who led us into this malaise is that the recent spate of weak news is only a “transition”. Things, they tell us, are about to get going again. Perk up everyone, these doldrums are entirely in your mind. How seasonal. Bernanke and his ilk must […]

Economics / Bernanke, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, jobs, monetary policy, recovery, stimulus /

Bernanke At Bay … Again

June 8, 2011

Poor Bernanke. He has to explain in almost childish language some things that he probably assumes any half way engaged politician or business person knows well. That’s the price economists pay for being deliberately disengaged from the economy. A century of self indulgent discussion and increasingly arcane mathematics has made economics impenetrable to anyone not […]