OK here’s an interesting article brought to my attention today: Time For Tax Hikes | CommonDreams.org Interesting thesis, and certainly controversial at the moment when we are all running around in a frenzy of Keynesian deficit spending. Here’s my take: I am not sure that higher taxes automatically means higher growth. The old adage ‘correlation […]

Here’s a link to Paul Krugman’s blog at the New York Times: Op-Ed Columnist – Paul Krugman Blog He asks a very valid question: why was George Bush’s record on employment so bad? When you look at the month to month job generation that took place over the past eight years you are struck by […]

In case you missed it this morning the unemployment numbers fro December were extremely disappointing. They showed the sharpest drop for a very long time and brought 2008 to a close as the worst year since 1945 – a year that America was readjusting to peace with millions of recently de-mobbed soldiers flooding the employment […]