All Posts Tagged With: "Economy"
The GOP’s Odd Silence On Economic Sabotage
Why is there no reaction from the GOP when one of the Senate’s top Democrats accuses them of economic sabotage?
1Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Whoa — Actual Fact Checking
The tide is turning: news services are doing actual fact-checking on claims by John Boehner.
12May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
America Losing Faith In Capitalism
A survey of various countries found that American support for capitalism has dropped 20% in 2 years from 80% to 59%.
12Apr2011 | Unstable Isotope | 54 comments | Continued
The Achilles Heel(s) of Job Creation in 2011
ADP has released its January payroll data today, showing an estimated addition of 187,000 private sector jobs. The usual suspects are forecasting that this Friday’s Labor Department employment number for January will be 140,000. Neither of these numbers shows anywhere near adequate job growth, but it is some growth.
3Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Mad Skillz Might Not Be Enuff
“. . . there’s a price to be paid for the excesses of the past decade; that the U.S. economy was profoundly out of whack before the recession hit; and that we need major changes in the kind of work people do.” – James Surowiecki in The New Yorker
28Dec2010 | nemski | 2 comments | Continued
Peacetime Economy?
Why have Conservative pundits forgotten our troops?
26Dec2010 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
All The Cool Kids Are Playing
The New York Times has a tool to look at the effect of various proposals to reduce the deficit.
15Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 30 comments | Continued
The Catfood Commission Issues Its Preliminary Report
The Deficit Commission co-chairs issue their preliminary report and prove “Catfood Commission” is the proper nickname for the committee. They recommend stealing our Social Security to give huge tax breaks to the rich and corporations, while making veterans pay more for healthcare.
11Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
The Rich Agree: Tax The Rich
Why are we talking about keeping the Bush tax cuts that have been an abysmal failure at creating jobs and keeping the economy strong? Even 64% of people with incomes over $250K believe that their taxes should be higher.
28Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 21 comments | Continued
New Series – “The Great Divergence”
Slate has a new series on income inequality – a must read.
9Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Three Is The Magic Number
Paul Krugman opines that we might be well on our way to a third depression.
28Jun2010 | nemski | 23 comments | Continued
Bad News For GOP Pessimists, Good News For Everyone Else
A new CBS/NYT survey shows a sharp increase in optimism about the economy, 41% say the economy is improving while only 15% say it’s getting worse.
Republicans Try To Deny Good Jobs Report
There was finally a good jobs report this month, showing a gain of 162,000 jobs in the month of March. It’s the best jobs report in 3 years, giving further evidence of the beginning of a recovery. Republicans tried to get in front of the good news by denying it’s good news:
The RNC [...]
NRO Investigates Black Unemployment
The NRO decided to do an online symposium on black unemployment after one of their economists wrote an article which concluded that discrimination could play a role in the higher unemployment numbers.
In response, NRO hosted an online “symposium” for “some economics and civil-rights analysts to share their thoughts on the topic.” Their conclusion was that [...]
American Enterprise Institute: Stimulus Worked!
Republican politician have been running around bashing Obama’s stimulus plan for a while now. Meanwhile, the economy has slowly been recovering from Bush’s FUBAR economic policies. Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute agrees that the stimulus worked:
AEI has its economic outlook, by John Makin. Notice anything strange here?
We can expect 2010 to be [...]
The Aughts: The Failed Conservative Experiment
Devilstower’s at Daily Kos blogged today about the lost decade of aughts. I recommend reading the whole thing if you get a chance but here’s an excerpt:
Don’t forget the naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. [...]
Better Than Expected Job Numbers Announced Today
I never thought I’d see the day when 10% (U3) unemployment was considered good news, but the new jobs report showed unemployment edged down from 10.2% to 10% and the economy lost only 11,000 jobs last month.
The unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in November as employers cut the smallest number of jobs since the [...]
War – What Is It Good For?
Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the cost of war versus the economic benefits on the home front and comes to the standard meme that the financial burden of war might have some good on the economy:
But the basic progressive analysis of the current economic situation is that higher short-term debt levels are socially beneficial, [...]
Double-digit Unemployment
Unemployment hit 10.2% in October which is painful for many especially those without college degrees as they have been hit the hardest. There is no solace for the unemployed in the following fact, but employment always lags behind economic growth.
Here is an interesting chart supplied by The White House that shows some light at the [...]
US Chamber of Horrors
Delaware Liberal like facts and we like pretty pictures, consequently we love graphs. Daniel Gross at Slate did a fine piece on the failings of the US Chamber of Commerce:
But there is a fundamental reason why the chamber isn’t being invited into the rooms where legislation and policy are being made these days: It doesn’t [...]
The Republican Guide To The Stock Market
Steve Benen brings us the rules for watching the stock market, according to Republicans:
Just so we’re clear, here’s a helpful guide to the rules of Wall Street watching, as they relate to partisan politics:
When the markets went down on Bush’s watch before the 2008 elections, this was Bill Clinton’s fault.
When the markets went down on [...]
Conference Board Predicts Economic Recovery
The Conference Board has released its report on economic indicators. The report is signaling that recovery from the recession is about to begin or is in its beginning stages.
The Conference Board LEI for the U.S. increased sharply for the second consecutive month in May. In addition, the strengths among its components continued to exceed [...]
Obama Announces New Regulatory Plan
Yesterday the Obama administration released its plan for new regulations of the banking and finance industry.
The President’s plan will:
Require that all financial firms that pose a significant risk to the financial system at large are subjected to strong consolidated supervision and regulation
Increase market discipline and transparency to make our markets strong enough to withstand system-wide [...]
Brad DeLong Has A Proposal
Even though we’ve seen improvement in the overall economy, the economic recovery will be long and painful. The latest unemployment numbers showed a jump in unemployment to 9.4% (U3) and the economy still lost >300,000 jobs last week. There’s been talk in some places of a second stimulus package because the first was [...]
8Jun2009 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
