The Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary estimate for job losses for June is 467,000, which means 7.2 million people have lost their jobs since the start of the recession. The cumulative job losses over the last six months have been greater than for any other half year period since World War II, including the...
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Atlas Shrugged: A Must Read for Every American
I’ve been telling Tickler for months now that we are beginning to see Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged come to life. It’s horrifying. Ayn Rand defected from communist Russia in 1926 and wrote Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Needless to say she was not a fan of socialism. Noted economist Stephen Moore wrote a piece...
Dems Wrong Yet Again – Temporary Stimulus Doesn’t Work
This all makes such perfect, logical sense. I can’t believe they refuse to see it. From the Wall Street Journal . . . . The incoming Obama administration and congressional Democrats are now considering a second fiscal stimulus package, estimated at more than $500 billion, to follow the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. As...
