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Economics / ADP Employment Report, jobs, stimulus, unemployment /

Jobs: More Sideways Than Down?

March 3, 2010

I always dislike pundits who use the weather in order to avoid making definitive statements about economic numbers. But today’s jobs news from ADP, the payroll management company, provide a legitimate example where such avoidance makes sense. The report, on the surface, is not good. The economy lost 22,000 from private sector payrolls in January. […]

Economics / American Medical Association, Jim Bunning, Medicare, stimulus, unemployment /

Bunning’s Leninist Folly

March 2, 2010

By now, of course, you are all aware of Jim Bunning’s stand. Shorn of the need to hide his real opinions on matters of social policy by his decision to leave the Senate this year, he is exercising his right to block legislation he finds offensive. What kind of legislation would that be? That needed […]

Economics / California, creditors, deficits, Greece /

Californiastan?

March 1, 2010

I haven’t poked fun at California lately, but how can I pass this up? Bloomberg and Reuters now reports that the cost of credit insurance on California debt is now higher than that of such rock solid, fiscally sure places as … Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Uruguay. Ouch! All the media attention being focused on the […]

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