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Written by Steven J. DuBord
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Friday, 06 November 2009 12:01 |
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The unemployment rate shot from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent in October, the highest it has been since 1983, the Labor Department reported on November 6. In response, the Obama administration is set to sign a $24-billion economic stimulus bill.
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Written by Charles Scaliger
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:00 |
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 In Robert J. Samuelson’s latest op-ed piece for the Washington Post, “Could America Go Broke?”, the longtime editor and economic and business writer — who can normally be counted upon to prescribe the usual Keynesian claptrap for our sundry economic woes — actually flirts with common sense. In his piece, Samuelson dares to ponder the unthinkable: What if the rest of the world lost confidence in the viability of the dollar, and America could no longer service her fourteen-figure national debt by printing more money?
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Written by Steven J. DuBord
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 08:30 |
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 The Ford Motor Company has posted a net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter of this year, no thanks to Uncle Sam. Ford was the only Detroit automaker to escape federal bailout money while steering clear of bankruptcy court.
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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
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Monday, 02 November 2009 00:00 |
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 The federal $3 billion “Cash for Clunkers” program promoted by the Obama White House last summer cost an average of $24,000 per additional car sold, according to an analysis by automotive consumer researcher Edmunds.com. The White House has responded with a blistering attack disputing the finding.
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Written by Steven J. DuBord
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 09:00 |
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 According to the White House on October 30, the $787-billion stimulus plan has created or saved about one million jobs, but that number is conveniently unverifiable. There is simply no way to know with certainty how many workers would have lost their jobs without the stimulus. And of course, the admininstration-supplied estimate does not even take into account how many jobs may have been lost because of the stimulus program, ignoring the fact that the "stimulus" money that was used to create jobs in certain government-favored sectors of the economy had to be siphoned out of the economy as a whole, destroying jobs elsewhere.
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