Hey! I think my job rolled under the couch!
Jim Geraghty takes a slam at President Barack Obama's "created or saved" X number of jobs claim. Look, I Just 'Saved or Created' Another Blog Post The Obama administration's relentless use of the "saved or created" metric, even in the face of increasing ridicule, is pretty remarkable. But if it won't die, perhaps the concept […]
The May unemployment numbers are out, and courtesy of Innocent Bystanders we have an updated graph of the jobless numbers vs. President Barack Obama's predictions in selling the stimulus. Questions: At what point does Obama begin to own the economy? How high does the unemployment rate have to go before the media starts seriously scrutinizing […]
On a personal note: I'm still looking for a job. I've got some solid leads, but I'd really like to have some more options before I move forward. On that note, I think a government job might be good. As Jason Pye over at QandO notes, President Obama has said he has "created" 150,000 jobs […]
The Times of London's auto writer, Jeremy Clarkson, checked out the new Honda Insight -- and he didn't like it. So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it […]
The Washington Post's Robert J. Samuelson analyzes the Obama budget plan and finds it is a potential economic disaster waiting to happen. Just how much government debt does a president have to endorse before he's labeled "irresponsible"? Well, apparently much more than the massive amounts envisioned by President Obama. The final version of his 2010 […]
I finally got around to listening to NPR's Intelligence Squared debate on whether Washington or Wall Street is more to blame for the financial crisis. You can follow the link to listen to the debate yourself. What I found particularly amusing was a line by Niall Ferguson who represented the side blaming Washington. His opponents […]
Barry Knapp, a strategist (whatever that is) at Barclays Capital and Liz Ann Sonders, a chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab are all about the crazy. There is a growing belief among financial experts that the recession is over. Barry Knapp, a strategist at Barclays Capital, wrote recently that the economy appears "to be in […]
I'm sure all of you remember that disaster of a "stimulus" bill that was passed earlier this year with only two GOP votes (Specter didn't count then, he counts even less now). The drumbeat was that we had to do something and we had to do it now or really bad things would befall the […]
The big news over the weekend didn't make the major network newscasts. Instead, it was left to the blogs and less prominent news sources. For those unaware, bankruptcy lawyer Tom Lauria reported Friday that Auto czar Steve Rattner had threatened Chrysler investors who are not TARP recipients with the ire of the White House Press […]