Economy
GDP Revised Down -- Conservative Trade Policies Exporting Our Growth and Jobs
When we pack up a factory here -- and all of its jobs and supply chain and its support/.maintenance structure -- and send it all over there to a country that doesn't have the wage and safety and environmental protections we have, just to save a bit of money today we...
Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs
Glenn Beck made it official on Fox News last week: He’s seeking the office of 21st Century Marie Antoinette. The queen of France, beheaded during the revolution, attained infamy for insensitivity toward hungry peasants. Glenn Beck, the Fox talk show host, achieved...
Why Almost Anybody Can Be a CEO
The takeaway from the latest top gun flame-out at Hewlett-Packard: Chief executive 'success,' in America today, essentially demands no more than greed and a developmentally arrested ego. The tall tales we’ve inherited from ages long gone we call myths. The tall...
The 22 Senators Who Could Solve The Jobs Crisis This December
Yesterday, I flagged the 12 Democratic Senators who, in addition to all 41 Republican Senators, have prevented Congress from using Econ 101 deficit spending to create jobs and spark a robust recovery. I'm sure some of these Senators are sincere and some are cynical....
Our Growth Is Outsourced, Like Our Jobs
In the news today, a familiar story: imports increased, exports declined. About $50 billion in one month alone. The trade gap isn't just costing jobs, it's a significant factor in the slow recovery as well. See below. In 2005, when we were halfway down to where we...
Save American Manufacturing
The following was originally published by Politico. These days, Republicans can’t suppress the gloat. The “Party of No,” leading in most polls, is said to be on the verge of taking the House and possibly the Senate in November. The irrepressible Rep. Paul Ryan...
The Conservative Jobs Plan: Trash Teachers, Slash Pay, Bash Public Servants
The House this afternoon moved legislation to the President's desk providing aid to fiscally distressed states that would save an estimated 319,000 jobs, including public school teachers, firefighters, police officers and private
What’s Green, White and Blue? American Jobs
Red, as in furiously red, defined the day last fall when a consortium of companies announced it wanted $450 million in U.S. stimulus money to build a wind farm in Texas, creating 2,000 jobs in China and 300 in America. Now, nine months later, things have cooled down...
The House Republican Response To Weak Jobs Report? Do Less.
In the Reality-Based Community, the disappointing job reports are evidence we need our government to do more to get the economy on sound footing. In Conservative Fiction Land, the disappointing jobs reports are evidence we need to go back to the policies that gave us...
Where Are The Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs?
The economy is stuck. We need jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. Not tax cuts. The government released the July Employment Situation Summary and it isn't great. First, in context, before the stimulus we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. The...
