Sunday, September 8, 2013

ObamaCare's 30-Hour Full-Time Rule, A Depression Era Idea Going Back To 1937 And Hugo Black

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In 1935, Black became chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, a position he would hold for the remainder of his Senate care...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Government Statistics Will NEVER Capture The ObamaCare "Part-Timing" Trend

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The long term trend in average weekly hours is down, down, down. And the reason is simple and devious by design, in order to escape detectio...

The Workforce Depression Of 2007 Remains 4.19 Million In The Hole According To Social Security

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The size of the workforce earning wages for Social Security purposes went into multi-year depressions since 1990 three times: 1990, 2001 an...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Sorry, But We Aren't Talking About A Lot Of People Not Counted In The Unemployment Numbers

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I'd estimate the number not counted in the unemployment numbers to be between 1.5 million and 3.2 million, max. 9.784 million have left ...

Usually Full-Time Under Obama Has Nearly Recovered, Just 564,000 Jobs Short Of The 11/08 Level

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The graph shows usually full-time from November 2008 to present. Full-time jobs, contrary to what you may have heard, have nearly recovered ...

The Part-Time Myth: Usually Part-Time Is Up Just 465,000 Since Obama Was Elected In 2008

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Usually part-time is up barely 1.8% since Obama was elected in November 2008. The number goes up in the winter and comes down in the summer,...

Drudge, repeater of stupid

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Stupid Conservative Headline Alert: CNS News Says Unemployment Down Only Half A Percent Since 2009

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The story is here . A drop of .5 from 7.8% to 7.3%, of course, is a drop of 6.4%, not .5%. Ignorant boob.

August Unemployment Ticks Down To 7.3% From 7.4%, Job Gains Now Averaging 184,000/month

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Obama's job recession still going strong long after everyone else's ended That's 4.75 years straight of unemployment above 7%, o...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

When It Comes To Moral Obscenity, The US Takes The Prize For Indiscriminate Slaughter Of Civilians

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

That Red Line In Syria, Somebody Else Drew That

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Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons President Obama, quoted here : “I didn’t set a red line, the world set a red line,” Oba...

Radioactive Water Tank Leaks At Fukushima Produce 2.2 Sv/hr

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Reported here : Readings just above the ground near a set of tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant showed radiation as high as 2,200 millisie...

Constitutional parchment was no "practical security" against the US Senate's ObamaCare, was it?

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After discriminating, therefore, in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciar...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Estimated Fair Value Of The S&P500 Today Is About 1000

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Doug Short doesn't say "fair value", but about 1000 should be the fair value level of the index using regression analysis, her...

Fed Tapering QE "In Part To Relieve The Collateral Scarcity"

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Mentioned here by Peter Coy: The abrupt shrinkage of the budget deficit this year caused the Treasury Department to cut back on issuance of...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Stereotypical Federal Spending Wei Tu Hai

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Federal outlays from fiscal 1985 through 2012 are up 274%, from $946.3 billion in 1985 to $3,537.1 billion in 2012. Federal receipts have la...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

London Grows By A Million 2001-2011, But 600,000 Native Whites Flee

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Which helps explain why UKIP is winning elections in Great Britain: It just went from 7 seats in Parliament  local elections to 147, with Br...

Got Gas? You Should.

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The cheapest Grand Rapids gasoline price today is $3.64/gallon, while the average price is $3.75/gallon. The cheapest price is up 6.7% from ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Home Buyers Using All Cash Hits All Time High

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So says the National Association of Realtors, here : Walt Molony, a spokesman for the National Association of Realtors, says that the associ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Obama's Appallingly Bad GDP Reports For The Last 3 Quarters Average +1.23%

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Revised GDP Q2 2013 was reported this morning UP at 2.5% from 1.7%. Q1 remains at 1.1% and Q4 2012 remains at 0.1% Truly abysmal figures, de...