The Obama Failure
The political timing for Debacle is not coincidental, and Grover Norquist and John Lott’s book may well become the most important arrow striking President Obama’s economic policy. They have written ...
The Face of Obamacare’s Incremental Liberal Fascism?
If anyone was interested in how Obamacare might lead incrementally to the health-care industry’s form of “Liberal Fascism,” look no further than today’s New York Times article on the recently ...
The Fed Missed the Signs, But So Did Everyone Else
The Los Angeles Times has conjured up transcripts of Federal Reserve board meetings just before the housing bubble exploded to do a little populist bashing of the monetary authority and ...
Employment Revised Downward for June and July
You can almost hear the collective sighs in the White House and the quiet whispers of desperate strategy upon reading today’s glum news from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: ...
Bernanke Says ‘Stay the Course,’ and That’s Not Such a Bad Idea
Fed chief Ben Bernanke doesn’t see a bed of roses carpeting the economy in the future, but he doesn’t see another recession either. So, he’s recommending we stay the course. ...
The New York Times Misreads the Housing Market
The New York Times editorial board chimes in to today to egg on the Obama administration to goose the housing market:
Tens of millions of Americans are being crushed by the ...
When Looking Ahead to 2012, Conservatives Should Remain Dispassionate
One of the cardinal sins of marketing is believing your own press releases. Based on the responses to my post on Friday concerning Obama’s chances for winning a second term ...
Bad News for President Obama
The U.S. Department of Commerce released its economic growth estimates for the second quarter of 2011 and they are, well, dismal. And depressing. The economy grew just 1.3 percent from ...
Cultures of Entrepreneurship, East and West
President Obama and his progressive political brethren seem to be taking the U.S. closer and closer to the European model of a managed economy and welfare state, but those moves ...