Category Archives: Economy

‘Loosers’ Of The Day

You listen to some of today’s young people and they way they speak of themselves and others gives off an air of superiority. However, while their spelling almost instantly gives them away (“loosers”), their job applications do not. A 65% … Continue reading

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Boneheads Of The Day

Uh oh. They’re going “tactical”… Tactical Briefing #25 And if they don’t listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they’ve done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we’ll flashmob … Continue reading

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Challenge Of The Day

Still, while racism persists on the right – witness Newt Gingrich’s slurs about the NAACP and food stamps and his slurring President Obama as “the food stamp president” – it’s remarkable to see how readily conservatives have found a way … Continue reading

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Are The Employment Numbers Bullshit?

It’s unfortunate that the Bureau of Labor Statistics may have been politicized and the media may be dutifully repeating fudged numbers to protect a certain preferred candidate. It won’t surprise anyone that as of December, the real implied unemployment rate … Continue reading

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Welcome To The Monarchy!

King Barack’s power grab The president blames the Democrat-controlled Senate for not confirming his nominee and by pulling this latest end-around has essentially declared war on the Legislative Branch, while creating yet another unaccountable bureaucratic monstrosity. Next move…?

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Email Of The Day

The timing on this is just a tad suspicious… Senator Scott Brown’s January 2012 Jobs Fair As this is the first email of such an event I’ve received since Brown’s been in office, my only question is a cynical “What … Continue reading

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How Confused Are The Millennials?

Generation Y gave us Obama. The voted in record numbers, got in our faces about how much better he would be for the country because of all the stuff he promised THEM. Now, they’re don’t like his economy but aren’t … Continue reading

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Frustration Of The Day

I’m sorry, but statements like this and politicians who issue them really piss me off. We’re going to have to take the underlying assumptions for inflation and we’re going to have to peg them more to real wage growth as … Continue reading

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Quote Of The Day

It’s amazing the president can say such things with a straight face, but Tuesday he warned the crowd in Osawatomie, Kansas if his chosen czar to enforce Dodd-Frank isn’t confirmed… Every day we go without a consumer watchdog in place … Continue reading

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