Tag: recession

Let’s juxtapose this little nugget with Rodney’s post about how this is the worst recovery since the great depression. It truly is a war of ideas out there, and …

When arguably the two biggest in-the-tank-for-Obama media institutions finally feel compelled to cautiously begin using the term “double dip recession,” you can be pretty sure we have been comfortably …

Oddly, I find myself rooting for the mouthpiece, but only because I place the good of the Republic before my party.

Newsflash: Any contraction lasting two or more consecutive quarters is a recession.

9%+ Unemployment is now the steady state / new normal... ...unexpectedly.

This time it’s Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.  Marcus makes a lot of serious (and sadly, all too familiar) observations about today’s economy, but this one is just …

Jesse Washington with the Associated Press provides some gruesome details: Economists say the Great Recession lasted from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, the median net worth of white households …

Time of get off the misery-go-round and embrace the approach which history has shown to work.

I know, I'm a little late to the Obama budget speech bashing party.  Suffice it to say that yesterday's speech was one of the most pedantic and uninspiring Presidential …

If you haven't figured it out by now, our economic growth rate is flattening. On Friday, the Commerce Department reported a paltry 2.4% growth rate for the second quarter …