Category Archives: economics
The Future of Occupy
What exactly is going on with the Occupy movement now and what do they hope to accomplish? I ask this question not because I’m hoping Occupy continues to grow (I don’t) but because I want to know what Occupy’s end-game looks like … Continue reading
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OK Conservatives, Now What?
As I stated earlier this week, the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare should have awoken all Conservatives for the 2nd time but what are we going to do now that we’re awake? Yes, I know, we need to fight the Left … Continue reading
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What Liberals Really Want
Even though they try so hard to hide them, Leftists eventually reveal their true beliefs. They go to great lengths to give the illusion they are working for the common good and that private industry should fall prostrate on the … Continue reading
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Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Today, the Fed announced they are entering into another round of Operation Twist in an attempt to spur economic growth. “The Federal Reserve said it was extending its “Operation Twist” through the end of year. It will add $267 billion … Continue reading
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No, The Private Sector Is Not Doing Fine
We all know that Obama revealed his true agenda last Friday when he stated that “The Private sector is doing fine” and he urged us to focus on more Public sector hiring. I wrote a previous post debunking that theory … Continue reading
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The Revelation of the Leftist Agenda
According to Media Matters for America (MMfA), recession recoveries usually see an uptick in hiring in the Public Sector but the latest recovery bucks that trend. From their twitter account we see this picture. So MMFA are like totally ok with Obama saying … Continue reading
The Reality of Socialism
Last fall, when the Occupy kids moved out of their parents’ basements and into Zuccotti Park, there seemed to be a troubling groundswell of support amongst their filth to overthrow our current economic system, Capitalism, and replace it with Socialism. … Continue reading
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Is The American Dream Over?
American Exceptionalism is the theory that the United States of America was the first nation created with liberty, equal rights and laissez-faire all rolled into one. American Exceptionalism believes that the fierce adherence to these ideals can lead to the … Continue reading
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A Paradigm Shift In Space Exploration
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) recently launched their unmanned orbiting vehicle, Dragon, into space and is planning a rendezvous with the International Space Station in less than 24 hours. If this mission is a success, the picture I have pasted … Continue reading
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Obama is a Big Spender
For those of you who understand math and have read a newspaper during the past 3 years, the title of this post is not groundbreaking. But for Leftists who struggle with math or for those who gobble up any Lefty … Continue reading
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Do Not Forget What The Left Owns
In the coming 5 months the Left and Team Obama will throw anything and everything at Romney in order to secure a second term but Conservatives must remain focused and keep the election message centered on two very key components … Continue reading
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Liberal Inconsistencies
J.P. Morgan recently announced that they made risky plays in the derivatives market and got taken to the cleaners to the tune of a $2 billion loss. “The biggest U.S. bank by assets said on Thursday that it had lost … Continue reading
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Who Controls the US Government?
It seems Obama is hitching his re-election wagon to the Class Warfare/Income Inequality meme and at least weekly we see speeches like this one where he says the only way to get out of this financial mess is to tax … Continue reading
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Paul Krugman Loves Him Some Keynes
On NPR today, Paul Krugman gave an interview and talked about how the US is experiencing more than just a difficult recession but instead he equated the current US economic situation to the Great Depression. The two paragraphs below … Continue reading
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An Obamanomics Recovery
The Federal Reserve Board (the FED) recently released their estimates for GDP growth for the next three years and the summary chart is shown below. Even though we have come out of one of the worst recessions in recent memory, … Continue reading
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A Conservative in Favor of Government Student Aid
Recently, Obama trotted out another one of this emotion tugging memes that won’t have any effect on the economy – Keeping new Federal Student Loan rates low. This is just another ploy similar to the Buffett rule or the whopper … Continue reading
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Time to Reform Welfare
In a previous post I took a deep dive into Social Security and showed how we are on an unsustainable path but I offered a solution to get us into a more fiscally conservative position. Now I’d like to tackle … Continue reading
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Obama is the George Costanza of Economics
Remember in September of 2011 when Obama pushed for passage of his American Jobs Act (AJA)? There was nothing in the AJA that would actually create jobs so the AJA was just a political ploy and I mused that the … Continue reading
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Detroit aka Little Greece
We have watched over the past few months as Greece has come to grips with its decades of living beyond its means and with its debt now equal to 170% of its GDP, the country has reached a tipping point. … Continue reading
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Biden The Economic Wizard
Vice President Joe Biden spoke in Iowa today and claimed that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a history of offering consistently wrong remedies for the US economy. “Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday accused Republican White House hopeful Mitt … Continue reading
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