Republican New Hampshire Primary 2012. Who will win? Don’t listen to the media.
The big fight in 2012 will be about the economy. Any other issue should take a back seat to what is the biggest pressing issue for the majority of Americans. In a democracy you would hope that the focus turns on pressing issues like the middle class, job growth, and building a sustainable economy for [...]
GDP in the United States – Misleading data? How GDP may not be a good representation of the actual economy.
Interesting look at GDP in a weekend article. There have been recent debates about GDP really reflecting the true health of an economy. When we hear that GDP is going up we generally think that wages, jobs, the stock market, all go up in tandem. But in today’s market it would appear that the only [...]
Hourly Wages Down for the Month – Are Lower Paying Jobs with no Benefits the new Trend for Americans? 22 More Months like March and We’ll be Back to December of 2007.
For 26 long and arduous months the U.S. economy has been cutting jobs and setting up a situation where Americans had less and less money. This is problematic for an economy where such a large part of GDP growth comes from consumption. Yet on Friday we were notified that 162,000 jobs were added in the [...]