Most people really don’t understand the federal government’s budgets nor do they really understand government spending.  There has been poll after poll on this (like this one HERE); the problem is everyone thinks they know what they’re talking about because they read some headline or they heard it from someone who works for Fox News [...]

 “This is historically unprecedented.  Never before has the public weighed in on who should be secretary of the treasury of the United States.” ~Mark Weisbrot, economist and Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Paul Krugman is by far my favorite economist.  When it came to the economy – he [...]

For the past four years since the collapse of the banking industry during the Bush economic crisis – Republicans have been borrowing economic theories and proposals from former Republican President Herbert Hoover.  They have been advocating for significant cuts to government spending while in the middle of a financial crisis; Republicans tried that in 1929 [...]

If hard, predictive, verifiable evidence produces a set of conclusions contradictory to Republican ideology – obviously the evidence is false, the methods of measuring data and results are incorrect. The sun must rise in the West the next time Republicans control both Congress and the White House – and we will continue along the same [...]

Some people look at a higher unemployment rate and simply blame President Obama.  They do this regardless of Republican obstruction.   They do this regardless of Republicans failing to pass a jobs bill that would create more than 1 million jobs.  They do this even though the economy is in the process of seeing a [...]

Paul Krugman is on a roll calling out Mitt Romney for his false assertions about his tax and “jobs” plans.  There is a reason why a “large margin” of economists and 68 Nobel Laureates have said they prefer Obama over Romney (source). But – I am amazed at the number of people who are even [...]

Mary Matelin is a paid Republican operative just like her husband James Carville is a paid Democratic operative.  She makes the often recited claim that America is currently experiencing “the worst recovery in history”.  Paul Krugman corrects her on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos this morning.  It is important for you to understand – history has shown [...]

I couldn’t agree with Krugman’s comments more.  There is absolutely no question that the policies of the Republican party are constantly geared to the wealthiest.  They refer to the wealthiest as “job creators” and they’ve actually referred to them as “the most productive members of our society” many times because they’re trying to call them [...]

Yes – Republicans have been trying to sabotage the economy since even before Obama was sworn into office (more HERE).  The party that likes to claim the mantel of patriotism has shown itself via its own actions to be anything but patriotic over these past 3 years.  It isn’t as if they’re negotiating in good [...]

“These were adopted because they are things that Republicans agree on.  The House recently passed a bill on this, and this is something that we think needs to be done.” ~Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)  I’ve written before about what I think should happen to the FED HERE.  The Federal Reserve is in need of major [...]