by Dave Johnson | Feb 9, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Economist Christina Romer had an op-ed in the NY Times this weekend, Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment? The question that keep coming back to me is why did she feel the need to write an op-ed to diss manufacturing? Is it just an economist thing? Or is she, like...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 9, 2012 | Blog
In my previous post, I wrote that I'm likely to hear an old favorite conservative talking point repeated over and over again while I'm at CPAC: Married cures poverty, economic inequality, and just about any other economic complaint you can name — especially for black...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 9, 2012 | Blog
Dear Self-Described "Producer": I received your hate mail this morning. Thank you for emerging from your self-creating illusion long enough to write it. I particularly enjoyed your unstated rhetorical debt to the John Galt character in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, who...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
"You gotta have a J-O-B, if you wanna be with me." - Gwen Guthrie, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" I'm off to cover CPAC tomorrow, where — in light of a federal court ruling California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional — I'm likely to hear a favorite conservative...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog
PBS NewsHour took a look at why Germany's economy is doing so well, while much of the rest of Europe is not doing so well. Here are a few notable excerpts from the transcript: With just a quarter of America's population and a quarter of its GDP, Germany exports more...
