by Dave Johnson | Jul 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy
If our government just did the infrastructure work it has to do anyway eventually, much of the unemployment emergency would go away and the economy would get better. It's just that simple. But they won't. Infrastructure = Internal Improvements That Support Business...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 17, 2012 | Blog
Bankers love to recount the fabled story of the invisible hand. In their version, the superhero Invisible Hand effectively controls the market, thoroughly trust-busting and fraud-forestalling. Everyone lives happily ever after. Truth be told, however, the tale of the...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 16, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
The big brouhaha over when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital began when the Obama campaign accused Romney/Bain of offshoring jobs. Romney called Obama a "liar," saying he left Bain before the company did most of its offshoring. Then a Washington Post investigation found...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 16, 2012 | Blog
In a Sunday op-ed Arthur Laffer provides one of the funniest lines of the week, "Right-to-work laws provide individual workers with greater freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment." I almost spat out my coffee, thinking about what would happen to the worker...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2012 | Blog
The U.S. Olympic team's uniforms were made in China? This might be a WTF moment for the country, over the practice of sending our jobs, factories, industries and economy to China for the super-enrichment of a few. What next, a President made in China? Made In China...
