Economics
Stimulis will cure what ails us.
My guess is this won’t garner much sympathy from inside the beltway … not a protected class. Too bad its not whales, dogs or glaciers. (H/T Instapundit) The proportion of women who are working has changed very little since the recession started. But a full 82 percent of the job losses have befallen men, who…
Harry Markopolos first blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff 9 years ago and no one listened. The story he tells is compelling. A securities fraud investigator he was asked to look into the Bernie Madoff Invesment Fund: He said he contacted the SEC in 2000 after a four-hour review of Madoff’s investment strategy showed the…
The Sound Off Brother sent me this link last night. It is well worth the read. But here’s a sample. • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient. • A $246 million tax…
Are you better off than you were four years ago? It’s a question asked at Obama campaign events, and I’ve been thinking about different ways one can answer the question. We can measure economic success a number of ways – housing costs, gas prices, energy bills, retirement account balances and net worth are all measurable,…
Looks like the trade war is off. Good thing too. With the US having the second highest corporate income tax and facing “the worst economy since the great depression”, my guess is it would have become a “quagmire.” Last night Mr Obama gave a strong signal that he would remove the most provocative passages from…