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Economics / ADP Employment Report, Case Shiller Index, home prices, jobs, unemployment /

Jobs and Housing Still Fading

March 31, 2010

It is becoming monotonous to say, but the evidence that growth will be either healthy or sustained is getting fairly weak. The numbers just don’t add up. At the end of last year there was a surge of hope that the economy would chug into life. The data pointed that way even if the signs […]

Economics / deficits, Federal Debt, federal deficits, fiscal policy, health care, Reagan /

Funny Math: Federal Debt Style

March 30, 2010

Politics can intrude all over the place. No more so than in the aftermath of the great health care fracas. The losing side seems hell bent on stirring up anger over the legislation and, equally, on totally misconstruing it. The simple fact is that the health care reform as it has been signed into law […]

Economics / exports, GDP, imports, jobs, Karl Marx, trade, trade balance, trade deficit /

Trade: A Defense

March 25, 2010

There has been an ongoing discussion sub-text throughout the entire crisis and recovery cycle I think we need to surface and make more explicit. That is the role of trade in our economy. There was not much reaction to President Obama’s recent commitment to expand US exports as a way of creating jobs. For some […]

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