From the category archives:
Short but sweet today. I saw that the head of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (soon to be departing head), Christina Romer, made an interesting comment on how to fix the economy. She said we need to cut taxes (good) and increase government spending (what?). Sometime you just have to shake your head. You would [...]
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One month in and we have our first bailout from the legislation that would prevent future taxpayer bailouts. I got it yesterday from the Morning bell. It is certainly interesting where the money went.
This follows the bailout for the states that was in part paid for by new taxes on corporations and evidently cuts to [...]
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Obama visits Texas and you will never guess what he said.
“The policies that crashed the economy, that undercut the middle class, that mortgaged our future, do we really want to go back to that, or do we keep moving our country forward?”
“When we talk about this going back thing, I notice that some Republicans say, [...]
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I could not resist adding to my last post. It is hard when you have Nancy Pelosi once again blaming Bush for the economy and Timothy Geithner defending raising taxes in a recession by saying not doing so “would hurt economic recovery by undermining confidence that we are prepared to make a commitment today to [...]
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