Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look
Still above 8%—and closer to 19% in a truer accounting by Mort Zuckerman Don’t be fooled by the headline unemployment number of 8.1% announced on Friday. The reason the number…
Obama’s Four Years Of Failure On Jobs
Jobs: A top White House economics spokesman cautions against reading too much into a single month of employment data — and we concur: One month isn’t enough. So how about…
No, Obama Hasn’t Cut Small Business Taxes 18 Times
by Investors.com President Obama has been running around lately claiming he’s cut small business taxes more than a dozen times. That no doubt would be news to the nation’s small…
Unemployment 8.1% as More Give Up Looking for Work
The nation’s most recent jobs report disappointed again with an anemic 96,000 new jobs added in August. Just to keep up with population growth, the economy would need to add…
Do the math, Mr. Obama, you’ve run out of excuses on jobs
by John Lott • FoxNews.com Despite a growing population, fewer Americans have jobs today than when Obama took office. And the jobs pay less, too. With the release Friday morning of…
Are We Better Off? Business Publication Says No
Economic Conditions: All weekend, Democratic party leaders kept fumbling their answer to a simple question: Are we better off than we were four years ago? There’s a good reason for that:…
Democratic Platform Puts Culture Wars ahead of Fixing the Economy
If you thought the nation’s 8.3 percent unemployment rate and $1.3 trillion budget deficit were the top two issues of the 2012 election, then congratulations, you share the same priorities as the…
Budget Failures Lead to Economic Woes
by George Landrith America’s national debt is dangerously close to $16 trillion. This is a staggering figure. It is impossible to comprehend in concrete terms. But we are rapidly approaching…
America’s Embarassing Energy Debacle
by George C. Landrith President Barack Obama has been criticized by both supporters and critics for making and then breaking too many campaign promises. Whether it was closing Guantanamo, ending…
Is this Administration Serious about Energy or the Economy?
by George Landrith We are in the fourth year of Barrack Obama’s presidency and the final two months of the election. Finally, Obama is at least talking about the economy,…
Economics that don’t work
by George Landrith President Barack Obama continues to argue against keeping taxes low to spur economic growth and job creation. At the same time, he argues against significantly cutting government…
The Election Year Jobs Charade
by George Landrith Now that the 2012 election is less than a year away, President Barack Obama is finally at least talking about jobs on a regular basis. However, Obama’s…
Why is Obamanomics failing?
by Peter Ferrara On Inauguration Day, 2009, President Obama seemed so politically blessed by the timing of developing economic trends. I expected that based on American economic history, recovery from…