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Category Archives: economic recovery
Jon Huntsman and Too-Big-To-Fail Wall Street banks
Jon Huntsman has shown he is a candidate with a real shot at the nomination with his strong showing in the New Hampshire primary. Maybe now he will get the attention he deserves. Mr. Huntsman has again addressed the issue … Continue reading
Common Sense Regulation
There was a very interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal on Common Sense Regulation. I’m not sure we are ready for common sense but it is certainly an idea worth thinking about. Since not everyone gets the Wall Street … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, economic recovery
Tagged Common Sense, regulate but simplify
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Jon Huntsman and Too Big to Fail
I was very pleased to read Jon Huntsman’s plan on financial reform . Two aspects of it especially struck me. First, it never made any sense to me to have financial institutions so large that they would be considered too … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, economic recovery
Tagged economic recovery, economic reform, too big to fail
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Buy American Gifts and Support American Art
The past few nights on the TV news there have been a series of reports called Made in America. A major point of these reports is that if we spent just a part of what we spend on gifts this … Continue reading
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Tagged American art, art, gifts, home decor, jewelry, Made in America
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Stimulus worked, more jobs needed
The graph below shows the month to month change in private employment during the 45 months from January 2008 to September 2011. Thus months 1-12 are 2008 during the Bush admininstration. Months 14 -45 are the Obama administration. And month … Continue reading
The stimulus was working but is now slower
The economic stimulus plan of 2009 is widely criticized as not working but it seems that it did work but is now slowing down. They say it didn’t create jobs but that is not right. They say the government can … Continue reading
Huntsman Beats Obama
Jon Huntsman beats Barack Obama in making public a jobs plan. President Obama’s plan should be out in a few days. Gov. Huntsman’s plan has already been available for several days. It covers many aspects of the economy as would … Continue reading
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Tagged economic recovery, Health care, jobs, taxes
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Stimulus efforts: Shovel ready or not. Please fix our infrastructure.
The stimulus efforts have seemed to slow down for a variey of reasons but often cited is that there are very few truly shovel-ready projects. The infrastructure needs to be fixed. Our roads are certainly in need of improvement and … Continue reading
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Tagged economic recovery, infrastructure, jobs, stimulus
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Are we asking the right questions?
I don’t think we are asking the right questions. And therefore our answers may be correct for the question asked but not solve the problem.
Posted in Current Events, economic recovery, Health care
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Why – Bush tax cut compromise
So what did they do? A reasonable person might expect agreement on a package between those 2 numbers (400-500 billion). But they reached agreement on a package that would cost 800-900 billion. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, economic recovery
Tagged Bush tax increase, economic recovery, estate tax
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