Economics

Obamacare claims more victims: Juicy Couture. Clueless employees, though

March 28, 2013

Capitalism is easy to understand; here are Skip’s Rules: Rule Number 1: The company owns the job.  Not you.  While good employers care about their employees, the Company comes first, long term. Rule Number 2: Companies exist to make a profit. You have their job until you no longer help them make a profit. Rule [ Read more ]

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Todd I. Selig – Economic Ignoramus or Just Deceptive?

March 23, 2013

Porous condoms, bustiered moobed construction workers, medieval royal exclamations with a dash of Dorothy skipping rubies down the golden road all at the expense of some poor statist once-a-plebe trying to ply more cash from the pockets of his neighbors to meet his illusory expectation of what should be done and pretending to solve a [ Read more ]

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Progressive Economics – what POSSIBLY (long term) could go wrong?

March 16, 2013

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

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Notable Quote – James Gwartney and Richard Stroup

February 27, 2013

Similarly, the record of government planning in the United States is fraught with internal inconsistencies. The federal government both subsidizes tobacco growers and propagandizes against smoking. It pays some farmers not to produce grain products and, at the same time, subsidizes others with irrigation projects so they can grow more of the very same grain [ Read more ]

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Consider the consequence of a decision – or the keeping of a promise

February 20, 2013

Unlike our Tranparency-in-Chief Obama who has, over and over, promised that his Administration would be the most transparent ever (as in former EPA Head Lisa Jackson using TWO unofficial email address to keep official business, well, opaque to the public), this boss was very transparent as to what would happen: A southwest Ohio woman says [ Read more ]

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Tyranny #3 – Minimum wage isn’t about economics – it’s about “Community”, dontcha know?

February 6, 2013

“All one community…“ Of all the reasons to raise a minimum wage (leaving aside for the moment, the utter crassness of know-it-all politicians who believe they know what’s best for the health of a company, especially a small biz in this economy, than the owners do), this has GOT to be one of the stupidest: [ Read more ]

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We’re going down: Democrats soon to be warning about “extremist economists”

January 18, 2013

Why is that? Because many knowledgeable people are beginning to blow the whistle on our current spending insanity. Such as…

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A lesson from the First Thanksgiving

November 22, 2012

I like reading John Stossel as often he proclaims a down to earth message with common sense appeal.  In addition, what he talks about is grounded in results rather then an ideological background.  When I saw his column, so apropo for today, it does need to be reviewed. Why?  Allow me to inject a bit [ Read more ]

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Data Point – Global Growth Collapsing?

September 27, 2012

Not looking to give that “warm fuzzy feeling”, eh? (H/T: Business Insider)

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Data Point: Household Incomes down 8.2% under Obama Administration

September 25, 2012

Note: the time limit for Obama to keep blaming Bush has expired.  The time limit has been reached and expired in which Obama can keep blaming what he inherited – he campaigned for the job. Note: this is a result of his Administration, his ideology, his grasp of systematic economics, and his skill as a [ Read more ]

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The Obama Hubris-o-meter is moving to full tilt…

February 2, 2012

Bumped and updated (from 3/2009):  Well, 2011 is over, and how did Obama’s car, the Chevy Volt, do?  After all, he declared that NOW, Americans would finally get the cars that they wanted and that 1,000,000 would be sold by 2015. Eh, what was that, how many?  Er, this many: …GM sold just 603 Volts [ Read more ]

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Club for Growth Presidential Whitepapers; a Roundup

December 30, 2011

Over the past few months, we’ve presented the CFG Presidential Whitepapers as they became available, and it seems timely to repost the links and update the comments as we go into the final stretch for the primary. These exceprts and comments are meant to give a flavor of each candidate’s report – Click on any [ Read more ]

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I guess this is the outgrowth of Obama blaming unemployment on ATMs

November 6, 2011

And one has to wonder when Statists say that there is never a regulation that is harmful?  Let’s see – 9% unemployment, people stuck on unemployment for an average >40 weeks, and Obama says his #1 Job is jobs? And the answer by his we have to go back to mule power? Jane Danowitz, director [ Read more ]

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Democrat’s Say The Dumbest Things

November 6, 2011

Mr. Morse and the left would have you believe that jobs spring from government like Eve from the rib of Adam. They do not want to admit that ‘government’ is itself a luxury item that must be paid for like anything else’ by the product of the private sector risk taking. Good government cannot exist without the conscience of better men giving a portion of their property for some guarantee of stability and a promise to protect their property in exchange.

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Pension?

October 26, 2011

(H/T: Big Government)

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The Garbage Police

October 25, 2011

“Law, without force, is impotent.”  —Blaise Pascal The City of Manchester, in its infinite wisdom, seeks to enact an anti-scavenging ordinance prohibiting the scavenging of recyclable items from curbside bins. Under the new measure, violators would be slapped with a fine.  If this ordinance is enacted, the homeless and ‘ner-do wells’ who scavenge cans bottles [ Read more ]

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OCCUPY WALL STREET FOR DUMMIES

October 18, 2011

“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.”  —Larry Niven How does one become an Occupy Wall Street Protestor? A quest for understanding in a somewhat complicated topic. Why? Because there are some who seem to demonstrate a modicum of intelligence and articulate usage [ Read more ]

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Obama’s Economy…

October 3, 2011

 “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” —Thomas Sowell                       

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Jeanne Shaheen: “Porking” Those Tax Increases Down Our Throats

October 3, 2011

  ”If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation …” —Rush Limbaugh Today’s Union Leader Editorial, entitled, “Free Cops!” points once again to the ills of  having a big-government Democrat like Jeanne Shaheen serving the Granite State in the U.S. Senate. Like her liberal counterpart, former Congressperson [ Read more ]

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Obamanomics Is Like A Computer Virus on the Economy

October 2, 2011

If Socialism/Obamunism was a Smart Phone app it would take over all the other apps, slow down operation, stop applications it did not like, agitate some apps to intimidate others, and eventually stop working all together.

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The Post Office vs. Private Enterprise

September 23, 2011

This from my buddy Fred in Florida: The response of the post office to their financial crisis really displays the difference between "government-think" and private enterprise.  Faced with a financial crisis the government approach is this:

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Would You Suck Twice as Hard for Half as Much?

August 30, 2011

This particualr faerie story center around three graphs from the Government Printing Office (GPO). Not the fed, the treasury, or even some fruit-loop left wing think tank, but the GPO. The GPO prints stuff, and answers to the Executive branch. So right out of the toy-box we have to question these partisan stills, presented as they are in a partisan manner, bearing guestimated facts and assumptions, with no basis in reality

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Republikinz-R -Stoopid?

August 30, 2011

Michelle Malkin discusses the lefts age old narrative about Republicans being dumb, and the recent attacks on Rick Perry. The obvious comparison, and she says it herself, “Dumb compared to who?” Great point. We’ve got more University economic egg-heads roaming the White House than you can shake a ruler at and yet they have to the last come up with nothing but a series of failed polices that have a) failed to meet any of their own genius exclamations and expectations and b) made things worse. It’s fun all the way through so take six minutes out of your morning and watch Malkin work.

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F.A. Hayek and Julianne Hough…

August 29, 2011

…a match made in Economics Heaven. Read about this Love Story HERE.

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Gasbag

August 17, 2011

(H/T: Powerline)

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