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Economics / consumption, GDP, inflation, interest rates, Keynes, recovery, regulation, stimulus, unemployment /

Back To the Stimulus Debate

October 5, 2009

It was bound to happen sooner or later. There are growing rumblings that we will need another round of government stimulus, a.k.a. deficit spending, before we can be assured that the economy can reach a sustainable growth path. The most recent source of the discontent from which those rumblings are emerging is last week’s poor […]

Economics / consumption, fiscal policy, jobs, Keynes, recession, recovery, stimulus, unemployment /

Ugly Unemployment Numbers

October 2, 2009

Put this into the category of bad news. Since everyone, well nearly everyone, was predicting a drop, the news that unemployment rose last month is a shocker. August’s payroll loss was revised down to 201,000, and September’s came in at 263,000. The consensus had been that we would see something in the order of 165,000. […]

Commentary /

Personal Note …

October 2, 2009

Just a quick personal note: my daughter, Kim, gave birth to a healthy, and large, baby boy yesterday. So the family has another generation and I am now a grandfather. I don’t quite know what to make of my new status. Hopefully it will help restore some of that lost acuity the years seem to […]

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