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The Obama Administration’s Economic Bragging: Another Response

February 17, 2010 – 4:17 pm

My friend and colleague, Francis Cianfrocca, has an op-ed for CBS News that further refutes Obama Administration spin regarding its stimulus package.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Budget Deficit, Economic Ignorance, economy, Entitlement Spending, Keynesian Stimulus, National Debt, Obama Administration, The Failure Of Keynesian Stimulus | Comments

Fritz Henderson Stepping Down at General Motors?

December 1, 2009 – 5:32 pm

What I will want to know about Henderson’s resignation over the next few weeks is whether a candidate to replace Henderson permanently emerges quickly. That would suggest that today’s move was planned. It Henderson’s resignation was precipitate, it suggests deeper problems. It’s reasonable to speculate that there was disagreement over the disposition of assets. It’s also possible that this day was fated to come, and Henderson was a caretaker from the start.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market | Also tagged Fritz Henderson, General Motors, GM, Government Motors | Comments

Want To Be Scared?

October 10, 2009 – 6:03 pm

Listen to this.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Ben Domenech, Coffee and Markets, Dollar, economy, International Reserve Currency, Obama Administration, Robert Zoellick | Comments

More on Fed Policy

August 19, 2009 – 12:38 pm

This morning’s podcasts have drawn a few comments, so I thought it might be a good idea to respond generally.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged Federal Reserve, fiat currency, financial crisis | Comments

The August Doldrums Catch the Markets: Is the Recession Coming Back?

August 17, 2009 – 11:24 am

I’ve never been shy about my belief that economic conditions will remain weak for a long time to come. That’s not to say that a recession will continue, because at some point the economy has to stop contracting. But contrary to conventional belief, the conditions are not in place for the kind of strong recovery we’ve seen in the recent past. Neither the underlying financial conditions nor the consumer demand are in place for that.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market | Also tagged August doldrums, bond market, depression, Recession, recovery, Stimulus, stock market | Comments

Honesty and the Public Option

August 12, 2009 – 3:53 pm

I have a new post up at RedState about Lanny Davis’s slip when discussing the Administration’s healthcare efforts:

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged Health Care Reform, Lanny Davis, Obama, Public Option | Comments

The Job Market

August 7, 2009 – 10:47 am

My colleagues, Ben Domenech and Francis Cianfrocca discussed the new job numbers and the larger picture of the financial crisis.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Ben Domenech, economy, Obama Administration, Politics, Unemployment | Comments

Microsoft and Yahoo Team Up Against Google

July 29, 2009 – 11:50 pm

Today’s podcast concerns the deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo, and what that arrangement means for Google — and for the entire tech market.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market, Podcasts | Also tagged Apple, China, Coffee and Markets, GOOG, Google, Microsoft, MSFT, Podcast, Search, Steve Ballmer, Tech, Yahoo, YHOO | Comments

Podcast: Coffee & Markets on Goldman Sachs

July 29, 2009 – 12:26 am

TNL Senior Editor Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Wednesday, July 29th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s edition covers the controversy over Goldman Sachs.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market, Podcasts | Also tagged Anti-Semitism, Coffee and Markets, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Paul Krugman, Podcast | Comments

Podcast: Coffee & Markets, Pilot Episode

July 27, 2009 – 9:44 am

TNL Senior Editor Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Monday, July 27th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market, Podcasts | Also tagged Barack Obama, Coffee and Markets, inflation, iTunes, Newsweek, Podcast, Podcasts, Radio New Ledger, Tim Geithner, Unemployment | Comments

On Deflation and “All the Money We’re Printing”

July 14, 2009 – 7:29 am

I very rarely respond to comments from uninformed people, especially when expressed in the Internet’s lingua franca of the uninformed, which is petulant snark. I’m making an exception in the case of darwinxavior, who commented on my story about the economic outlook yesterday.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Blogs, Markets & Policy | Also tagged deflation, inflation, printing money, quantitative easing | Comments

Cap and Trade: It’s The Corruption, Stupid!

June 26, 2009 – 7:25 am

The Waxman-Markey Act went through an array of very significant changes. About 85% of the emissions permits will not be auctioned off in the early years of the law’s operation. Instead, they will be gifted to politically-favored businesses, in states and districts with lawmakers critical to the bill’s passage. Farmers and certain electric utilities will particularly benefit. This amounts to an outsized transfer of wealth from the taxpayers to private industrial interests. Why is such a thing being allowed with nary a word of debate or public outrage?

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market | Also tagged Cap and Trade, Congress, Corruption, Democrats, Lobbying | Comments

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