Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category

Liberty and ObamaCare

March 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, ObamaCare, Socialism, US Constitution

First sentence captures it. =============== Few legal cases in the modern era are as consequential, or as defining, as the challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court hears beginning Monday. The powers that the Obama Administration is claiming change the structure of the American government as it has existed for 225 years. Thus has the health-care... Read more

Warren Buffett vs. the profiteers of doom

March 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics

“Its been right since 1776…” Well, Death and taxes – those are forever, but will Buffett be right about the USA? ========= MIAMI, Fla. (MarketWatch) — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, meet Buffett the Doom Slayer. (3/5/2012 The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, is firmly entrenched with optimists who believe the worst is over for both the U.S. economy and the stock market. “It’s a terrible... Read more

‘Stupid’ and Oil Prices

February 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Obama

Worth the read, although there should isn’t anything really that new if you think logically. ===== ‘The American people aren’t stupid,” thundered President Obama yesterday (2/24/2012) in Miami, ridiculing Republicans who are blaming him for rising gasoline prices. Let’s hope he’s right, because not even Forrest Gump could believe the logic of what Mr. Obama is trying to sell. To wit, that a) gasoline... Read more

Greek crisis .. it’s game theory

February 23 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics

By Matthew Lynn LONDON (MarketWatch 2/23/12) — What movie should you watch to try and understand the torturous progress of Europe’s debt crisis? “Zorba the Greek,” maybe? “The Never-Ending Story,” perhaps? In fact, the best thing you could slot into the DVD player would be ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Ron Howard’s well-crafted film about the mathematical genius John Nash. The latest round of... Read more

Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force

February 3 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Socialism

Hmmm. A month ago, we (zerohedge.com)  joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that the people not in the labor force exploded by... Read more

Europe Now Doubts That Greece Can Embrace Reform

January 16 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics, Socialism

The US is on this same highway, aren’t we?  No one is willing to say, and no one wants to hear the truth. =============== ATHENS — As Greece and its lenders prepare for another week of tense negotiations, European officials now say that the task is less to help the country through its troubles than to avoid the sort of uncontrolled default... Read more

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