Why Budget Deficits Matter: Government at a $1.26 Trillion Budget Deficit for the 2009 Fiscal Year. Three Times as Large as Last Year and we still have Two More Months of Data.
The notion that deficits do not matter is a widely held and deeply ingrained economic philosophy. This line of thought took a stronghold in the 1980s and has seemed to stick to our ever-growing dismay. Yet budget deficits do matter if we are looking at an economic horizon that is longer than one fiscal year. […]
Employment Situation: Job Anti-Growth – A Decade with Zero Net Added Jobs. 131 Million Nonfarm Payroll Employment in June of 2000. 131 Million Nonfarm Payroll Employment in June of 2009. 6,460,000 job losses since start of Recession.
The so-called second half recovery got off to a rocky start. The market was expecting 367,000 job losses for the month of June but instead got 100,000 more than expected. The market quickly turned sour as 26,000,000 Americans are now unemployed or underemployed in the job market. Yet what is even more troubling is the […]
Alan Greenspan on $100,000 White-collar Comedy Tour: Quantitative Easing and Changing our Economic and Financial Language.
Alan Greenspan continues his White-collar $100,000 speaking fee comedy tour in which he tells the audience that he had nothing to do with the housing bubble. Those expecting to see a mea culpa concert from the former Fed Chairman are going to be waiting for a very long time. According to the majestic maestro, a […]
24 Million Americans Unemployed or Working Part-time but Available for Full-time Work. Why This Recession Feels Much Worse to Average Americans.
During the height of the Great Depression in 1933 with unemployment hitting its peak, 13 million Americans found themselves out of a job. This translated to 1 out of every 4 workers in the civilian labor force. You may be wondering how is it that we have recently heard rumblings that this recession may have […]