Archive for Category: "Economy"

June 8, 2012 07:02

Lowlights of Obamanomics on Kudlow

Featuring 19 “lowlights” of Obama’s disastrous economic policies from IBD Editorials on Kudlow.

June 8, 2012 06:47

70 Facts Obama Does Not Want You To See

He is attempting to convince all of us that everything is just fine and that the economy is heading in a positive direction. Well, the truth is that everything is not fine and things are about to get a whole lot worse.

June 8, 2012 05:16

Barack blown off course on economy – refuses to change direction

RNC ad highlights the many times Obama blames ‘headwinds” for the failing economy. Yet he continues to insist on the same failed policies of more spending, more debt and higher taxes. Is this the same Barack that railed against higher debt and huge deficits until he got the checkbook? Can we afford four more years of “headwinds?”

June 7, 2012 07:35

Obama Forcing Change Nobody Wants

Obama can no longer blame former President Bush for his failures, cannot blame events in Europe, and cannot blame Mother Nature. He has only himself to blame. Voters from the Left to the Right know this.

June 7, 2012 07:02

Hope and Change Becomes Fear and Envy

“All they have to offer is fear and envy.” Rep. Paul Ryan speaking about the lack of leadership on the economy by the Obama administration and Democrats who have refused to pass a budget in over three years.

June 7, 2012 05:37

CBO Agrees: Less debt, lower tax rates good for economy, jobs & growth

Rep. Paul Ryan questions CBO’s Doug Elmendorf on how tax rates and debt effect economic growth. It’s like telling a family that they’ll be better off financially if they live within their means. It’s pretty sad that this simple fact needs to be explained in painstaking detail to our president and his constituents. But facts don’t matter to ideologues like Obama.

June 7, 2012 04:12

The rich DO pay their fair share

We hear all the time that the “rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes” (123,000 Google search results for that phrase). Here’s an analysis using recent IRS data that suggests otherwise.

June 6, 2012 07:09

This ain’t about Greece any more folks

I talked with a Swiss banker from Geneva today. The conversation went like this:

June 5, 2012 14:03

Spending and Demographics

To say that the economy is anemic is an understatement – GDP is 1.9 percent, only 69,000 jobs were “created” in the month of May and unemployment is at 8.2 percent. Unemployment figures are constantly revised, massaged, and misrepresented. No wonder, citizens no longer trust their government, they fear it.

June 5, 2012 09:00

Leftists call for more of the same – spending and debt

Leftist economists are calling for Obama to increase his record spending and debt to gamble on an economic boost to save his socialist presidency. It was Albert Einstein that said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.