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Obama-Nomics: Half Full, Half Empty, or Just Half Assed?

  Well – another day, another miserable US jobs report, another stock market retreat, and yet another Obama climb-down. At least this time the climb-down was not induced by Speak Boehner’s shadow....

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Obama-Nomics 101: The New Service Economy

Image by oddsock via Flickr Labor Day Weekend in the Hamptons is traditionally the time for the invading horde of City People to cram in one final 6:45 a.m. round of golf, one more hour of tennis,...

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Obama-Nomics 101: The Jobs Dust Bowl

Right now the basic  cyclical “crime scene” in the American economy looks something like this. 1.  As of September 2011, 46  months after the Great Recession began in December 2007, and 27 months after...

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Obama-Nomics: The Long-Term Jobs Stall

The cyclical jobs crisis that we described in Part II is even more distressing,  because it comes on top of a much deeper, longer-term structural jobs stagnation, at least in the above-ground US...

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The Other September 11

(Note: for the Spanish language version, look here.) Almost every American, and indeed many non-Americans, can remember exactly where he or she was on September 11, 2001.  Oddly enough, I happened to...

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The Rise and Imminent Fall of Biodiesel

Alex Henry* and James S.  Henry Copyright June 2012 Right now, all across the US, producers of an alternative fuel called “biodiesel” are in a state of panic. Over the next year, up to three-quarters...

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Mitt Romney: The Artful Dodger

Lord knows I’ve been critical of President Obama on a dozen fronts, from his lame jobs stimulus, overly-generous  bank bailouts and big-corporate tax cuts, weak debt relief for households, and heavy...

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Postcard From Barbados — a.k.a. ‘Cyprus West’

Barbados, “the Jewel of the Caribbean,” the tiny easternmost island in the Lesser Antilles with 288,000 year-around inhabitants and lots of very rich foreign visitors and investors, is in the throes of...

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A Note on Dr. King’s Birthday

For the next 24 hours the US Congress is taking a brief respite from its busy efforts to slash unemployment benefits, Food Stamps, real wages, and corporate taxes, to “honor the memory” of Dr. Martin...

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Another Pyrrhic Victory in the Pointless “War on Drugs”

Mexico’s ruling elite, the US Government, and the dwindling band of hardy drug war aficionados in the global law enforcement community all noted with great satisfaction last week’s re-arrest, after 13...

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