Friday Afternoon News Roundup
Friday Afternoon News Roundup You remember how the gun industry whipped up fears that the Obama administration was going to steal everybody’s guns? That translated into a huge windfall for them. path...
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Tuesday Evening News Roundup Austerity really isn’t working out all that well in Europe. William Black, scholar and economist, takes the Washington Post’s William Samuelson to task for advocating for...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Severe Flooding, Snowden, Jobs, IRS
For the last four or five days we’ve had torrential rains with severe flooding which has been unrelenting. We are in a flash flood watch through Sunday evening. It appears that both Venezuela and...
View ArticlePrivate Sector Job Growth
Let’s just take some time and look at private sector jobs under Obama. From Calculated Risk Blog: Term Private Sector Jobs Added (000s) Carter 9,041 Reagan 1 5,360 Reagan 2 9,357 GHW Bush 1,510 Clinton...
View ArticleNews Roundup – Jobs, Bin Laden, Trump, Airplane Engines
New jobs report – Although the headline number for job creation was below expectations, this was still a decent report. Some positives include more wage growth (see below), fewer part-time workers...
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