Category: Economics

A rather interesting statistic came out last week, one that caught my eye. I watched to see if it would catch on, but no one seems to be talking …

My colleague Michael already brought up President Obama’s always-sage counsel on the auto industry (OK, it was nothing short of typical Obama milspec ignorance), but it was just so …

According to this piece at Big Government.com, more than 70 businesses with affiliate relationships to online retailers like Amazon.com and Overstock.com have closed their California businesses and relocated elsewhere.  …

Jobs. Remember those? Remember the good old days when, under the George W. Bush administration, the average annual rate of unemployment between 2001 and 2008 was 5.26%?  (Though, according …

“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa.  “But over the last six months we’ve had a …

A little while ago, Iowahawk put out a Tweet that really got me thinking: “You know who else inherited an economy from George Bush? Rick Perry.”   I thought …

The woman from Wassilla demonstrates to the beltway crowd what the word means.

The key word in S&P’s explanation of its downgrading of US debt is “TRAJECTORY”.  A trajectory is based on a series of data points collected over time, not on …

Yes we are… and we’ve been that way since Obama was elected… unfortunately, I don’t think it’s what former Obama economic adviser Christine Romer meant: Only hours after Standard & Poor’s …

Over the weekend, my colleague Rick wrote about a rather modest proposal to restore the notion of “shame” to those who depend on public welfare.  It’s an interesting notion, …