Showing posts with label Housing 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Housing 2009. Show all posts
Friday, December 25, 2009

Decline in Christmas Card Traffic Mirrors Unemployment Rate

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How do you write the annual Christmas letter, anyway, when you have to write the following: "Gee, we've been out of work for a yea...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

FDIC In The Red . . . 140 Failed Banks Year to Date . . . $30 Billion Down, $100 Billion To Go

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The Associated Press is reporting: The 140 bank failures are the most in a year since 1992 at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis. The...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

It's a Depression

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From Richard Posner of The Becker-Posner Blog, on Gross Domestic Product: But it is necessary to emphasize that it is just a starting point...
Monday, December 14, 2009

"Obama's Policies Risk Another Depression"

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Scott S. Powell and Ron Laurent, in "Obama's Policies Risk Another Depression" for  The Detroit News , ask: Light at the end o...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Palin Was Wrong on the Most Important Issue of 2008, and She Still Is

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Now that Sarah Palin is out with her book, I think it's crystal clear she hasn't learned anything in the last year about the terribl...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

"The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery"

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Penetrating analysis here from the chief economist at Delta Global Advisors. November 5, 2009 The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery By Michael...
Monday, November 2, 2009

The Baloney in the Bailouts

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An excellent summary detailing in plain language what has been wrong with the bailouts of banks and Wall Street, posted today at Jesse's...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Banks Must Be Restrained

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Total bank failures year to date reached 106 yesterday, bringing the total cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund this year to about $25 bi...
Friday, October 16, 2009

90 Jobs--10,000 Applicants/99.1% Disappointed

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The country needs to create roughly 150,000 new jobs per month just to keep up with first time job seekers, but the inventory of already une...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Myth of the Obama Mandate 2008

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The supporters of Barack Obama like to point to his 9.5 million vote margin of victory over John McCain in last year's election as evide...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

An Open Letter to President Obama

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Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare m...