Category Archives: Economy
Duct Tape Economics
The Labor Department laid a sulfurous egg last Friday. By their calculations, just 74,000 jobs were created in December. The pros thought it would be 200,000. What do they know? This marks the slightest increase since January 2011. Somehow, even … Continue reading
Global Cooling and Other Guesses for 2014
Today we break from the past, and leap over the present, to focus our attention on the 12 months ahead. There’s a New Year in front of us and we step into it with excitement and anticipation. What will 2014 … Continue reading
Buck Butler’s Doggone Miracle
Not long ago, about the time of the financial crisis in 2008, the U.S. faced grim prospects of an interminable energy crisis. U.S. oil production had peaked in 1970 at about 9.6 million barrels per day. It had been in … Continue reading
Where Does the Money Come From?
This week revealed fresh evidence that things may get worse for the economy before they get better. Obviously, this is not the direction we’d wish to see things go. But rarely do we get what we wish for. This new … Continue reading
