America’s Debt And The Economically Illiterate

July 11, 2011 Leave a comment

From the best and seriously conservative Economist, it is embarrassing to our nation that the US is led by people who haven’t the slightest idea about basic economics, or have chosen to ignore economics for personal advantage.  Either way we are stuck in a stagnant economy, huge unemployment and nothing happening to reverse course.

The sticking-point is not on the spending side. It is because the vast majority of Republicans, driven on by the wilder-eyed members of their party and the cacophony of conservative media, are clinging to the position that not a single cent of deficit reduction must come from a higher tax take. This is economically illiterate and disgracefully cynical.

via America’s debt: Shame on them | The Economist.

Filed under Business and Commerce, Economy, National

Is Bad Job Report Good Or Bad For Coral Gables

July 11, 2011 Leave a comment

It is bad for Coral Gables if you think that sales on Miracle Mile are important, if you agree that sales taxes are important, if real estate is to come back, if you think that businesses depend fundamentally on consumer spending directly or indirectly, if we depend on our ability to finance good infrastructure, if you think that UM needs a prosperous economy to pay it way…

In May, the unemployment rate for Miami-Dade rose from 13.1 percent to 13.4 percent, matching a record set in 2010. In Broward, it crept back up to 9 percent. Adjusting for seasonal hiccups in hiring, Miami-Dade payrolls shrunk by 3,500 between April and May while in Broward they stayed flat. May ended a string of monthly gains in South Florida jobs in 2011, just as the national May employment report of 54,000 new jobs was the first lackluster gain of 2011.

via Dismal jobs report for June doesn’t bode well for South Florida numbers – Business Breaking News – MiamiHerald.com.

Filed under Business and Commerce, Coral Gables, Economy

Nearly Permanent Unemployment?

July 8, 2011 Leave a comment

Thanks to Greg Mankiw’ Blog.  Terrible unemployment and no real changes in sight.

 

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More On Need For Stimulus To The Economy (Stiglitz)

July 8, 2011 Leave a comment

The remedies to the US deficit follow immediately from this diagnosis: put America back to work by stimulating the economy; end the mindless wars; rein in military and drug costs; and raise taxes, at least on the very rich. But the right will have none of this, and instead is pushing for even more tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, together with expenditure cuts in investments and social protection that put the future of the US economy in peril and that shred what remains of the social contract. Meanwhile, the US financial sector has been lobbying hard to free itself of regulations, so that it can return to its previous, disastrously carefree, ways.

via The Ideological Crisis of Western Capitalism – Joseph E. Stiglitz – Project Syndicate.

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