Economy
ROBERT SAMUELSON: Family meltdown and economic decline – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 15, 2013 | 9:04 am
By Robert J. Samuelson, Sunday, April 14 The discouraging March employment report, with a job increase of only 88,000, raises questions well beyond the dreary state of today’s labor market. Prolonged high unemployment may be silently shredding the social fabric in ways that last for decades. Even before the Great Recession, men with a high school diploma or less ... Go To Article
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PETER FERRARA: Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States – Forbes
By MB Snow at April 15, 2013 | 9:00 am
Peter Ferrara, OP/ED | 4/14/2013 Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding. That sharpening is the result of the increasing political segregation among the states, with 25 now in complete control of Republicans in the ... Go To Article
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CONN CARROLL: Fracking revolutionized American energy as green energy failed | WashEx
By MB Snow at April 14, 2013 | 8:00 am
April 13, 2013 - Conn Carroll It's hard to remember now that President Obama's agenda has degenerated into a sham gun control bill with loopholes big enough to drive a Mack truck through, but back in 2008, progressives had big dreams about how to reshape the entire U.S. economy, starting with the energy sector. For years, liberal efforts to unite around a green ... Go To Article
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IRWIN M. STELZER: The Four Questions | WeeklyStandard
By MB Snow at April 14, 2013 | 7:30 am
APR 13, 2013 • BY IRWIN M. STELZER To understand the American economy, you have to answer four questions. How can it be that unemployment remains high at the same time the number of job vacancies is rising? Will consumers keep buying cars and houses at anything like the current pace despite the recent increase in payroll taxes? How long will Ben Bernanke’s Fed keep ... Go To Article
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CALIFORNIA:: A “Comeback” in Name Only – City Journal
By MB Snow at April 13, 2013 | 3:12 pm
The New York Times sees fit to print only good news about California. The New York Times loves California. Well, parts of it, anyway. Adam Nagourney, writing a few weeks after voters approved a temporary income- and sales-tax hike, reported that the state’s economic gloom was “starting to lift,” even before the tax had taken effect. Last month, Timothy Egan found ... Go To Article
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The Obama budget and the appearance of reform – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 12, 2013 | 4:50 pm
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: April 11 Well, at least we’re starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It’s called “regular order,” using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.Normal had disappeared during the Obama years. Republicans duly submitted annual budgets, ... Go To Article
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ECONOMY:: Krugman’s ‘Lust’ – The New York Sun
By MB Snow at April 12, 2013 | 4:06 pm
“The position of the Sun is that there are three circumstances when it makes sense to move to a system of sound money. One is when a currency is collapsing. Two is when it is steady. And three is when it is appreciating. What one really wants, at any point, is the confidence that the dollar will remain exchangeable for gold over a long period and that people will have ... Go To Article
PUZDER & TALENT: Jobs Numbers Demystified -
By MB Snow at April 7, 2013 | 4:14 pm
Andrew Puzder - Editor's note: This piece was co-authored by Michael Talent - Apr 05, 2013 Trying to figure out what the “official” unemployment rate means can be very frustrating. Much of what we hear is complex and counter intuitive. The numbers seem inconsistent with what people are experiencing and many people are simply losing interest. We hear about growth ... Go To Article
VDH’s Private Papers:: America in the Age of Myth – The Coastal Aristocrat
By MB Snow at April 7, 2013 | 12:18 am
April 6, 2013, by Victor Davis Hanson We live in a mythic age — but mythic in the sense of made-up. In the last thirty years, I have probably spoken 200 times at a coastal university of some sort, most of which were on the Eastern seaboard. I spent eight years at UC Santa Cruz and Stanford. I go to Palo Alto every week to work, and often lecture or teach in ... Go To Article
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THE TAX CODE Is A Hopeless Complex, Economy-Suffocating Mess – Forbes
By MB Snow at April 6, 2013 | 9:38 pm
OP/ED | 4/04/2013 Throughout our population, experts and non-experts alike, the verdict is nearly unanimous. The U.S. tax code is a hopelessly complex mess, antithetical to growth, and is crammed with conflicting incentives, which screams for reform. But there is little agreement on how to repair it. My preferences are necessary, just, and ordained in heaven. Your ... Go To Article
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