To listen to the talking heads on news channels, you’d think Obama’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act was the worst piece of garbage to emerge in decades. The public sees the shrill discourse for what it is: Pundits and politicians putting their own ratings ahead of the country’s welfare. People overwhelmingly approve of Obama’s leadership. From [...]
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Public Approves of Obama Leadership Despite the Media
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Obama, Politics
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The Phony Claim that Stimulus Doesn’t Work
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Financial, Media, Obama, Policy, Politics
Charles McMillion convincingly refutes the claim, recently publicized by the Washington Post, that the New Deal under Roosevelt failed to turn the economy around. He does this by the simple means of showing us the data on economic and industrial production through the 1930s. [Thanks Rita Crane for the reference.] It is plain for all [...]
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Why we know less than ever about the world
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Economics, Media, Video
I’m off to the Inauguration today; so I’m not spending time on poring over the depressing news on the economy. Until I begin posting photos and observations from the Inauguration, I thought you might enjoy the following eye opening video. (Thanks to Barry Ritholtz for the reference) Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks [...]
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