Posts Tagged ‘Economics’
Billionaire USA families couldn’t cover one-fifth of Obama’s deficits
It’s time to bash the wealthy! News media love to tell the common people just how rich the top 1 percent are, letting us know what kind of stuff they own and remind us that most of them contribute to [evil] Republicans.
Read MoreUK Guardian: Blame economics graduates for economic crash
My dad was an economics major in college and I enjoy the subject even though I don’t understand all of it. That said, I started reading a post this morning in the UK Guardian referencing current economics students and how they need to expand their training to more than neoclassical theory.
Read MoreRand Paul: Obama political math is absurd (Video)
To be certain, this type of math has been used forever by the federal government. If you just purchased an iPad Mini for $329, do you think you could get away with coming home and telling your significant other you just saved $170 by not buying the full-sized iPad?
Read MoreMilton Friedman on economics
As my brother said today on his show, today would have been Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday. He passed away in 2006. He won the Nobel Prize in economics for 1976, 200 years after our country began. He believed firmly in the economic principles of our founding.
Read MoreGovernor Malloy are you sure Connecticut is open for business?
Northrop Grumman announced on Friday that it plans to close its manufacturing facility in Norwalk, Ct. The plant has been in operation under various owners since 1961. Grumman is in the process of consolidating its facilities located in Maryland and Illinois. There are currently 315 Workers at the Norwalk Plant, 50 of those employees will…
Read MoreDoubling down on stupid in the ivory tower….
Amid all of Øbama’s recent student loan rate histrionics in an attempt to buy the votes of college audiences and Jimmy Fallon, I came across this gem of a story on college tuition increases which was briefly mentioned on the WTIC news yesterday. It was a report on the news regarding differential increases in tuition…
Read MoreRead Williams: Economic Chaos Ahead
Take a few minutes today to read Prof. Walter Williams’ current Creators Syndicate column, Economic Chaos Ahead.
Read MoreObama nominates yet another aide to deal with the economy
On Monday of this week, President Obama nominated Alan Krueger to head the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). As, presumably, the President will rely upon his advice, you may wish to learn a bit about Mr. Krueger.
Read MoreAnd, here is my plan…
During the President’s Midwest bus tour today, the President announced that he has a specific economic plan to bring this country out of our recession/depression/economic downturn…
Read MoreObama administration will ask to raise debt ceiling $2 trillion – What would China do?
What’s the value of having a ceiling if you routinely raise the limit? At a personal economic level, I can understand providing a higher “credit limit” if one’s financial picture showed an increase in income and a responsible credit history, but how can the owners of the national debt simply increase the limit with stagnant…
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