Showing posts with label Jobs 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jobs 2011. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dr. Strangeobama Blames Republicans Yesterday For Net Zero Jobs In August 2011?

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It's like a scene out of Dr. Strangelove, where the delusional General Ripper blames fluoridation of the water supply beginning in 1946 ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Obama is the King of Unemployment

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Initial claims for unemployment have been at or above 400,000 for 90 percent of Obama's presidency. By contrast, George W. Bush sp...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Economy is NOT Improving: 3rd Estimate of Real GDP Falls to 1.8 Percent from 2.0 for Q3 2011

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What a joke the news is today. GDP is revised down and all you hear on the news is Ho! Ho! Ho! Q2 GDP was 1.3 percent, and Q1 0.4 percen...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Day The Jobs Stood Still: Obaamu Baracka Nikto

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About 2 million fewer total non-farm workers are employed today than in January 2009 , despite growth in the population.
Monday, December 5, 2011

Unemployment Under Obama is Over 8 Percent for 34 of 35 Months in Office

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( source )
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Obama Hasn't Had One Week of Initial Claims for Unemployment Below 375,000

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By the only measure that counts: The seasonally-adjusted 4-week moving average. LOOK IT UP: here . The ONLY time it got that low was ONE wee...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The New Global Fascist Order Slashes Dollar Borrowing Costs, But Not For You

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It's not fascism when WE do it. As reported here : The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the cost of emergency dollar loans to foreign banks ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Male Unemployment is 11.2 Million, Not 4.2 Million

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So says Brett Arends, here : Millions here are still out of work. The unemployment situation is far, far worse than the government is tellin...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Consumers Increase Spending in 2011 From Savings and Social Security Tax Holiday

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Net real retail spending looks set to come in up 2.9 percent in 2011 over 2010. Per the data here from the Census. Average monthly retail a...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Adam Davidson of NPR Wants to Increase Taxes on It, But What Really is The Middle Class?

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In The New York Times, here , where he expansively defines the middle class as everyone making between $30K and $200K: To solve our debt pro...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Easiest Mortgage Loan Bailout Program Would Let Taxpayers Do It Themselves

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According to the Federal Reserve's latest Statistical Release in September, here , the current value of all residential mortgages outsta...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Broadest Tax Base Which Can Possibly Be Imagined Implies a Tax Rate of 6.2%

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Herman Cain's 999 Plan is focusing attention on the perennially perplexing problem of taxation for the American electorate in 2012. His ...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Unemployment At or Above 9 Percent For 28 of Obama's 34 Months in Office

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That's 82 percent of the time, most of which he has spent on more important matters, like interfering with your healthcare, campaigning ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Before The Income Tax, Federal Tariffs and Real Estate Taxes Punished Farmers

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From a helpful history of the estate tax from the IRS, here  (emphases added), which is unaware of the significant federal revenue contribut...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Rep. Newt Gingrich Gets Blame For Housing Legislation Which Led To Bubble

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Rep. Newt Gingrich was instrumental in turning the American dream into the American nightmare. Under Gingrich's leadership in the US Hou...

Whether it's Herman Cain's 999 Plan or a Flat Income Tax, The Current Code Must Go

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So says Steve Forbes, here , who reminds us why that is: The federal income tax code and all its attendant rules and regulations -- almost 1...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Herman Cain Has a 999 Plan. Obama Just Has a 9 Plan, as in Unemployment.

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So says Joseph Curl, here .
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Weekly Standard: Income Growth Has Slowed and Gone Negative in August?

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See the figures, especially in Table 1  here , at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. After reaching a peak in July, August personal income fel...

Involuntary Part-Time Has Surged 10 Percent in September Since July 2011

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As always, calculatedriskblog has the best charts, here : The Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent data is shown here :
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Misery Index Hits Highest Level in 28 Years

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From a Herman Cain economic adviser here : There is certainly more than enough misery to go around. With the unemployment rate at 9.1%, and ...