5 Years of Obama: The Real Story
Considering the country’s weak economic growth of just 0.1 percent last quarter, it is worth reflecting on the recovery effort that President Obama and his… Read More
Jobs Report: Unemployment Down, But 800,000 Leave Workforce
The headline figures for the April employment report finally demonstrate strong labor market growth. A deeper dive into the report, however, shows it remains too… Read More
Who Creates Jobs—and Why?
If you want to protect spending in Washington, call it “job creation.” That’s the flip side of yesterday’s quip by Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at… Read More
CBO Again Repeats Faulty Methodology to Estimate Impact of Stimulus
There they go again. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released yet another report on the beneficial impacts on the economy of President Obama’s 2009… Read More
The Fed’s Monetary Policy Matters, Too
It’s easy to get distracted with news like the guessing game of who will replace Ben Bernanke. But the more important issue is: What is… Read More
Economic Growth Remains Too Slow Because of Policy Uncertainty
Today’s report on gross domestic product (GDP) shows that not much changed in the economy during the second quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s initial… Read More
ANALYSIS | Obama’s Economic Speech: Another Summer Rerun
President Obama traveled to Illinois today to give the same tired, worn-out economic speech he’s been giving for almost five years now. Rather than offering… Read More
DOE Sitting on Taxpayer Dollars Due to Negative Publicity
Despite billions of dollars in unused loan authority remaining under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office, negative publicity surrounding the loan guarantee programs… Read More
Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill: Wasteful Spending Not Helpful
On Tuesday, President Obama signed into law a $50 billion recovery package for states hit by Hurricane Sandy. Much of the proposed spending in the… Read More
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Green Graveyard: An In-Depth Look at Government’s Bad Bets on 19 Now-Bankrupt Companies
As a follow up to the Green Graveyard overview, this post provides additional information concerning the funding for each of the now-bankrupt green energy companies…. Read More
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