Job creation’s glum arithmetic
How long will it take to get to an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent? That’s the target the Federal Reserve wants to reach before it begins raising interest rates. The best guess of top Fed officials is...
View ArticleStop the cuts and help the economy
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released its 10-year economic and budget projections. The agency expects a 2013 budget deficit of $845 billion, growth in gross domestic product of 1.4...
View ArticleThe Insiders: Hard facts cloud the Obama presidency
E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote yesterday that “many Americans have lost the sense of what he [President Obama] is doing to improve their lives.” Dionne goes on to say that to combat this disillusionment,...
View ArticleThe Insiders: Our Goldilocks economy
According to some, last week’s jobs report demonstrates we have achieved a Goldilocks economy: Growth is not too hot to cause a rapid deceleration in the Federal Reserve’s credit easing and not too...
View ArticleThe Insiders: The economy is not helping the Democrats in 2014
A Gallup poll released today shows that one in six Americans thinks the No. 1 problem facing the country is immigration/illegal aliens. The issue is further turbocharged because it feeds into voters’...
View ArticleThe Insiders: The Obama economy is not working for the Democrats
People vote with their pocketbooks. That has pretty much always been true, and it will be true in November 2014. With that in mind, the president has begun to try and convince voters that the Obama...
View ArticleA chance for bipartisanship
If Congress raises taxes on gasoline, Democrats won’t be the driving force, contrary to Ed Rogers’s argument yesterday. Rather, Republicans such as Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), who has proposed legislation...
View ArticleAfrican Americans are getting back to work
The October unemployment numbers — five percent, the lowest since April 2008 — and the creation of 271,000 jobs are fantastic news for a nation still picking itself up after the economic TKO it...
View ArticleWhat Trump gets ‘horribly’ wrong about black unemployment
“If you’re African American you’re doing horribly. You’re doing horribly,” Donald Trump said on MSNBC last week. “African American youth is doing worse than it’s ever done, essentially.” On “This Week...
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