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Michigan Left abandoning all pretense of economic sanity

There’s an old proverb that promises “it is always darkest just before the dawn.” And that might be true. When...

By Nick De Leeuw | 07-23-2009

Economy Is Better Now Than One Year Ago. Delusional? Misinformed? You Decide.

How's this for rose colored glasses ? Over the past year, overall levels of consumer confidence have bounced around a lot...

By Tabitha Hale | 07-06-2009

Moving the Goalposts on the Stimulus Package

Kudos to Klein ABC News’ Rick Klein for doing his job by pointing out how the Obama Administration is " Moving the...

By Alexa Shrugged | 06-29-2009

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Unemployment Rate May Determine 2010 Outcome

Although some say the U.S. economy has " turned a corner " and Joe Biden says of the stimulus , "In my wildest dreams, I never thought it would work this well," the unemployment rate has reached a 26-year high and many Americans are...

Published 10-08-2009 12:01 AM by Lorie Byrd

Filed under: unemployment, economic recovery
BARONE: Job-Killing Policies Could Doom Democrat Hopes

"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those several...

Published 09-17-2009 9:17 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, stimulus, employment, democrats
Michigan's Central Planning Failures

Michigan has a storied and inspiring history of pro-business and pro-family laws and regulations that has made it one of the best states to do business in. Most recently in the 1990s, the state's unemployment rate was consistently lower than the nation's...

Published 07-24-2009 9:30 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: unemployment, business, michigan, central planning
Is the Recession Over?

Obama wants you to think so. And so do his top economists. In the past few weeks, it seems it has been nothing but uplifting news coming from Obama’s economists. Just today, Lawrence Summers, the director of the White House's National Economic...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Kirsten Wright

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, economic recovery
SAMUELSON: The Squandered Stimulus

WASHINGTON -- It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results. They have a point. A $14 trillion economy...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Robert Samuelson

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, government spending, CBO
June Job Losses Causing July Heat Stress in D.C.

They say that heat stress makes you dizzy and heat exhaustion brings on a cold sweat. But, after the latest unemployment figures were released for June, the Obama Administration is starting to show signs of heat stroke. It's getting hot in Washington...

Published 07-14-2009 12:05 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, GDP
Obama's Stimulus Failure

Obama has clearly started to realize that public support for his stimulus package is waning. He’s begun defending it more vigorously than ever. In the Washington Post, Obama even took to writing an essay to let us know exactly why the stimulus package...

Published 07-13-2009 10:47 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, bailouts, government spending
Once, Twice, Three Times a Failure

Ever watch a really good illusionist? They are the masters of misdirection and succeed by getting you looking the direction they need you to look, in order to disguise the trick. The best illusionist can honestly make you believe what they are doing is...

Published 07-13-2009 10:36 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts
WILL: Higher Taxes, Anyone?

WASHINGTON -- Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a ... second stimulus. Elsewhere...

Published 07-12-2009 12:05 AM by George F. Will

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, stimulus, health care
A Second Stimulus? No Way. Cancel the First One.

Back in February, President Obama signed his stimulus bill into law. At the time, he declared that the $787 billion boondoggle was absolutely necessary to prevent the U.S. economy from going over the edge and into the abyss and becoming a catastrophe...

Published 07-10-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts
How Much of This Hope and Change Disaster Can Americans Take?

It's time to put down the Kool-Aid. It's time to quit chasing unicorns . It's time to stop the Hopey-Changey advertising campaigns . It's time for reporters to quit bowing and for legs to stop tingling . Hope and Change may have made a...

Published 07-07-2009 12:05 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: unemployment, wasteful spenging, deficit, GDP, inflation
Giving the U.S. Worker the Ole One-Two Punch

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may...

Published 07-06-2009 8:14 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, green jobs, minimum wage
Let’s Face It: This Isn't a Shared-Sacrifice Recession

Recent government figures concluded that the economy has lost more than 1.6 million jobs since Congress approved the stimulus bill in February. There is record unemployment in 12 states. Since January, the U.S. unemployment rate rose from 7.6 percent...

Published 06-23-2009 12:05 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: congress, unemployment, wasteful spending
It's The Government's Money, You Just Earn It

Did you know that the economy is getting better ? Even though the unemployment numbers continue to rise, the dollar loses value, interest rates are rising, and gas prices are rising, Joe Biden says the economy is getting better. Just ask him. And David...

Published 06-16-2009 7:50 AM by Melissa Clouthier

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, economic recovery
Economic House of Cards

The Obama Administration’s economic house of cards is trembling and on the verge of collapse. This is not a surprise to those who paid attention to the sloppy workmanship that went into it. Nonetheless, the American people fell in love and bought...

Published 06-12-2009 2:10 PM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: free market, unemployment, stimulus, economy