Tag Archives: Jobs

Jobs: An Economic Problem or a Political Problem?

The Democrat leadership in Washington is terrified that people will start blaming them for historically high unemployment levels, despite their best efforts to create or save jobs in Texas District 85 and elsewhere.

Awesome!

Or, you know, not:

Stimulus Dishonesty

It is nice that the press is paying attention to the degree to which the number of stimulus jobs has been overstated by the Obama Administration. But more media outlets need to flood the zone on this issue.

The Obama Administration’s Misguided Business Tax Crackdown

The Administration believes it has found both a good policy, and a winning political issue; taxing the foreign earnings of American firms, along with rhetoric about how the current tax system allows for American firms to engage in tax dodginess, and the outsourcing of jobs overseas.

Obama Administration Fuzzy Math

It’s a pity that we will be looking to the Administration to give us guidance on job numbers. The reason it is a pity is that the numbers the Administration is giving us cannot be trusted:

The Economy: Some Good News, And An Important Fact To Note

First, the good news–Job losses appear to be lessening in pace and the economy looks set to make a turnaround:

Measuring Job Growth

The Obama Administration likes to make grandiose claims concerning the number of jobs it expects will be created thanks to its stimulus plan. The problem, however, is that the Administration regularly ignores the amount of uncertainty that exists in the debate over job growth:

- November 21, 2009 -

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