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Lurching Back into the Vicious Cycle of Recession

Last Friday the Commerce Department announced that private sector wages and government benefits both fell in August.  The combination of these two undesirable data points resulted in the first monthly decline in overall personal income since October 2009. What this … Continue reading

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More Public Spending Only Hastens the Demise

Kicking off Labor Day weekend last Friday was a report by the Labor Department that, on balance, the U.S. economy failed to create a single job in August.  On the bright side, this also means not a single job was … Continue reading

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Clever Ideas to Fix the Economy

Yesterday’s stock market didn’t seem to give a darn but last Friday a notable revision was made.  An important economic mile marker was shifted down and to the right…realigning the economy onto the road to recession. According to the Commerce … Continue reading

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Admit Defeat of the Social Utopia

Production is the End “The economic goal of any nation, as of any individual, is to get the greatest results with the least effort.  The whole economic progress of mankind has consisted in getting more production with the same labor,” … Continue reading

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