As Felix Salmon of Reuters notes, the original bailout plan Kashkari worked on was created and promoted by PIMCO [Pacific Investment Management Co.]. Bill Gross, the firm's energetic CEO, even offered [...]
If nothing else, this post allows me to use the nifty image pictured on your right.
But I thought today’s essay by Patriot Post’s Mark Alexander was a keeper. In “Job Creation for Dummies” he outlines five basic tenets of economic prosperity that Barack [...]
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Eagle Peak Rock and Paving created and saved 32 jobs thanks to an $8 million federal stimulus contract to repair Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park.
But you won’t find that on Recovery.gov, the government’s Web site for tracking stimulus money.
You also won’t find the eight employees [...]
$6 million dollars from the stimulus bill is going to Hillary Clinton’s pollster Mark Penn.
The award of 5.97 million dollars is for help in the digital television transition. According to the White House 3 jobs will be saved.
Let’s see the taxpayers are now paying 2 million dollars [...]
Hopefully any new plan will have a better ROI than the current stimulus package. Economic analyst Ed Yardeni runs the numbers:
The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end of October. [...]
For a long time, I’ve contended that one piece of solving the puzzle of energy independence is getting to our own supply of oil and natural gas – supplies we have but are locked away by federal regulations.
An ancilliary benefit of domestic oil and natural gas exploration is the creation [...]
U.S. payrolls slipped 11,000 jobs in the month, far below any of the job losses posted over the last 23 months. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a loss of 125,000 jobs in November.
The October and September job loss estimates were also revised sharply lower, trimming [...]
Yet people are celebrating?
