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What?! This recession won’t last a generation?!
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Senate banking committee that the current economic trouble will probably end this year, just a week after Congress passed and the president signed the largest non-budgetary spending stimulus package in history. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Debt, Economy, Rebound, Recession, Spending
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Technology will lead the economic recovery
Tech writer Michael Malone agrees with me (ok, maybe I agree with him) that the tech sector will lead the way to American economic recovery, and probably soon. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Recovery, technology
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Creating Jobs
Does anyone else realize that creating jobs is not the same as stimulating the economy?
The mediawaves are full of all of this nonsense about how the economy has shed this many jobs and this many people are unemployed and we need to create jobs.
Now, if we take a breath for a moment, we can talk about how silly this all is. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, jobs, Spending, stimulus
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$13
Worldview Item of the Day According to the first reports scuttling around the internet, Americans can expect to see an average of $13 per week on their paychecks after the government spending stimulus plan goes into effect this spring. That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Debt, Economy, stimulus
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$1 trillion dollars
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So, the Congress is one step closer today to forcing us all into decades of indentured servitude to China and the European Union in order to pay back the debt we will incur when we borrow what will likely be $1 trillion to “stimulate” our economy. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Consequences, Debt, Economy, Spending, stimulus
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