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Commentary, Economics / jobs, Obama, recession, recovery, stimulus, unemployment /

Now What?

June 3, 2011

After the steady drip of weak to bad news over the last few days – and weeks – today’s rotten employment figures from the government are no surprise. We are entering the summer on a decidedly down note. The much hyped recovery of last fall and winter is dissipating and turning into exactly the mucky […]

Commentary, Economics /

Is There Hope?

June 2, 2011

I suppose we should start to ask the obvious questions. I read a couple of days ago an analyst arguing that the world should move on and begin to make more concrete plans for a post-America era. One main part of his argument was that the American political system is now so outdated and defunct […]

Economics / Case Shiller Index, home prices, ISM Business Conditions Index, jobs, real estate, unemployment /

This Is Not Good

June 1, 2011

What’s that old saying? The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Today’s blizzard of news brings that saying to the fore. I no longer think our political class is simply inept. It is supremely cynical as well. It has vectored into a discussion of issues that it alone is concerned with. At the […]

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