by Dave Johnson | Jan 7, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
One after another, the Republican presidential candidates have come out with strong statements that appear to show support for making things in America and revitalizing American manufacturing. This is because they can read polls and polls show that Americans...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 7, 2012 | Blog
Today's swaggering rich are increasingly stuffing their dollars into investments that do America's 99 percent not one whit of good. Your pop quiz for today: Define “art.” Wait, you don't need to panic here. You don’t need to go fumbling in the deep recesses of your...
by Roger Hickey | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Today's report of 200,000 jobs created in December means that the economy is barely growing at the rate needed to keep up with the growth of the labor force. Economists estimate that the U.S. will have to create more than 350,000 jobs per month – for the next three...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog, Economy
It may not feel like it, but we dodged a bullet in 2011 when it came to unemployment. Today's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy created 200,000 jobs in the month of December, bringing the annual net total to 1.6 million new jobs for the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog
Back in 2009, I asked "What's Wrong With Wall Street?", and then spent three posts answering that question. In my daily perusal of economic news, I have found myself more than once staring my computer monitor in open-mouthed wonder, occasionally exclaiming, "You've...
