America’s six-year experiment with progressive economic theories has proved those theories invalid.  Now is the time to replicate the successful economic strategies of the 1980s. The Labor Department’s monthly jobs report marked a long awaited milestone that, had it occurred in 2010 would have been cause for jubilation.  But in 2014 it’s a grim reminder […]

If the economy falls in America but the President and the media don’t mention it, will The People still suffer? Last week the Commerce Department published a revised GDP report showing that the economy contracted by 1% during the first quarter of 2014. As the chart shows, even before the first quarter contraction we were […]

If we’ve learned nothing else from the Obama economic experiment we should have learned that the core doctrine of progressive economics, that prosperity results from activist government intervention in the private economy, is a fallacy. In late April the Democrats’ leading pollsters Stan Greenberg and James Carville advised the party’s candidates to: …bury any mention […]

Government policies that facilitate job creation and prosperity are well known and understood.  Yet the President and the political movement he leads obstinately pursue opposite policies. The March jobs report is out and it’s more of the same, a net increase of 192,000 jobs, about average for the past few months.  The unemployment rate was […]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now five years old.  Known affectionately as his “stimulus” it was President Obama’s first legislative triumph, attracting high praise and hosannas from the media. But today, stimulus advocates are on defense, trying to justify an additional trillion dollars in federal debt.  During a campaign style media event to […]

Since the Administration’s earliest efforts to persuade America that ObamaCare will do more good than harm, one of the most hyped selling points has been “small business tax credits.” In a September 2009 speech to a joint session of Congress the President promised: For those small businesses who still cannot afford the lower-priced insurance available […]

The White House just announced a second one year delay in the ObamaCare employer mandate. The chart below displays economic data that likely influenced last year’s decision to delay the employer mandate from 2014 to 2015, and the latest decision to further delay it until 2016 for a critical segment of the economy, medium sized […]

Virtually all of the reduction in the official unemployment rate from the peak of 10% in 2009 to the current 7.3% is due to reclassifying jobless people from “unemployed” to “not in the labor force.” The latest jobs report didn’t get much attention as the political-media establishment obsessed over Syria.  The day it was published […]

Historic deterioration of the labor market makes monthly jobs numbers meaningless. The unemployment rate is misleading because millions of jobless people are not counted.  The number-of-jobs-created headline is misleading because of an unprecedented increase in part time employment.  When the latest jobs report was published the White House guided headline writers with this spin from […]

The Commerce Department has issued its Economic report for the second quarter.  Gross Domestic Product or GDP increased by an anemic 1.7%.  First quarter GDP, which had already been revised downward from the initially reported 2.5% to 1.8% was further downgraded to 1.1%. Over at the White House web site Alan Kruger, the President’s chief […]