TOPIC: ObamaNomics

Dec 10 2009	Job Creation for Dummies By: Mark Alexander - The Patriot Post Unfortunately, despite all the jobs Obama claims to have saved or created with his $787 billion "stimulus" package, unemployment has increased from 7.6 percent when he took office, to 10 percent.

Nov 09 2009	Obama’s Failed Stimulus in Pictures: 10.2% Unemployment By: Conn Carroll - The Heritage Foundation When President Barack Obama was pitching his $787 billion economic stimulus package, the White House produced a report claiming their plan would keep unemployment under a peak of 8%.

Oct 09 2009	Stimulating Debt By: Investors Business Daily perhaps it's inevitable that Democrats are pondering a second stimulus package. But why make the same mistake twice?

Aug 28 2009	Obama’s Tripling of the National Debt in Pictures By: Conn Carroll - The Heritage Foundation This Tuesday the White House released their Mid-Session Review admitting they made a $2 trillion miscalculation in the size of the federal deficit...

Aug 21 2009	Las Vegas jobless rate hits all-time high of 13.1 percent By: Jennifer Robison - reviewjournal.com ...joblessness in especially hard-hit Las Vegas surged to 13.1 percent. It’s the highest jobless rate both statewide and locally since the state began tracking data in 1976.

Aug 21 2009	California unemployment hits post-World War II high By: Alana Semuels - The Los Angeles Times The rate jumped unexpectedly in July to 11.9% even as the national rate declined.

Aug 21 2009	New York City jobless rate hits 9.6% - a 12-yr. high By: Bloomberg News New York City's unemployment rate jumped to 9.6% in July, the highest in a dozen years.

Aug 15 2009	Obama and the Fed By: Irwin M. Stelzer - The Weekly Standard If the Fed does hang tough, the president is likely to use his power of appointment to transform its board.

Jul 20 2009	An Articulate Bull in America's China Shop By: Terry Paulson - Townhall.com ...bent on transforming America into a socialistic nightmare we can’t afford!

Jul 16 2009	Fed Sees Heightened Joblessness Drawing Out Recovery By: Neil Irwin - Washington Post ...the economy may not return to full health for at least five years.

Jul 14 2009	Morning Bell: Cutting Recovery Off at the Knees By: Conn Carroll - The Heritage Foundation At some point the President is going to have to realize that businesses, not the federal government, are the ones who will be rebuilding our economy.

Jul 12 2009	Well, it's Only Money By: Doug Bandow - The American Spectator It would be tragic if there was even one business left in America that was not eligible for at least one bail-out. Obviously, the Obama administration isn't about to let that happen!

Jul 11 2009	House Democrats Will Seek Massive $540 Billion Tax Increase—Announcement Came Late Friday Afternoon By: Terence P. Jeffrey - CNSNEWS.com The top federal tax rate currently stands at 35 percent, but Democrats have vowed to raise it to 39.6 percent next year...

Jul 09 2009	The Commissars of Cool By: Mark Alexander - Patriot Post Meanwhile, as the masses slumbered, the House passed H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey version of Barack Hussein Obama's Orwellian legislation to regulate and tax CO2...

Jul 08 2009	Discover (R) Consumer Spending Monitor (SM) By: Rasmussen Reports Overall, 59 percent rated current economic conditions as poor, a 4-point increase from the previous month and the first increase since February.

Jul 02 2009	Unemployment Spike Defies ‘Stimulus’ Claims By: James Sherk - The Heritage Foundation ...the stimulus must be judged a failure.

Jul 02 2009	Obama Jobs Deficit Swells Again by Nearly Half a Million By: J.D. Foster, Ph.D. - The Heritage Foundation So far in his term in office employment has dropped by about 2.6 million jobs...

Jun 26 2009	Mounting Jobless Claims Force States To Borrow Funds By: CNBC / Reuters We are setting the stage for big pressures for states to restrict eligibility and benefit levels...

Jun 26 2009	House passes climate-change bill By: Lisa Lerer & Patrick O'Connor - Politico ...Democrats’ ongoing crusade against economic recovery...

Jun 26 2009	Five Banks Seized, Raising U.S. Tally This Year to 45 By: Margaret Chadbourn - Bloomberg Regulators have seized the most U.S. banks this year since 1993.

Jun 26 2009	Big Oil’s Answer to Carbon Law May Be Fuel Imports By: Joe Carroll and Edward Klump - Bloomberg The equivalent of one in six U.S. refineries probably would close by 2020 as the cost of carbon allowances erases profits...

Jun 25 2009	U.S. Economy: Jobless Claims Rise in Sign Labor Market Stagnant By: Courtney Schlisserman and Shobhana Chandra - Bloomberg A report from the Commerce Department showed gross domestic product shrank at a 5.5 percent annual pace in the first three months of the year.

Jun 24 2009	African-Americans Favor Delay on Climate Change Legislation By: David Almasi - National Center for Public Policy Research 56% Say Congress Fails to Adequately Take Into Account Their "Economic and Quality of Life" Concerns.

Jun 23 2009	Ford to get $5.9B in govt loans By: Ken Thomas - AP The loans to Ford will help the company upgrade factories to produce 13 fuel-efficient vehicles...

Jun 22 2009	Carbon Offset Program Won’t Offset Farmers’ Lost Income from Cap and Trade By: Nick Loris - The Heritage Foundation It’s not just farmers that lose out. Manufacturing, construction, wood products, machinery, electrical equipment, transportation, textiles, paper products, chemicals, plastics and rubber, and trade all industries are all particular hit hard.

Jun 20 2009	The Oregon Travail By: Wall Street Journal Driving business away with billions in tax hikes.

Jun 19 2009	Unemployment Hits Record Highs In 8 States By: CBS News Western U.S. Had 10.1% Jobless Rate In May, Labor Department Reports

Jun 18 2009	"Cash For Clunkers" Lives On In War Funding Bill By: Stephanie Condon - CBS News The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican attempt to kill the $1 billion "cash for clunkers" program...

Jun 18 2009	Brother, Can You Spare a Bulldozer By: J. Robert Smith - American Thinker Progress to a Progressive, like President Obama, has come to mean something entirely different these days. It's now about bulldozing blighted areas of cities

Jun 16 2009	Top Ten Wasteful Stimulus Projects By: Conn Carroll - The Heritage Foundation Courtesy of Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) new report, “100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion”, here are the Top Ten most dubious Obama stimulus projects

Jun 14 2009	All the President’s Czars (Video) By: Heather Wight - Daily Uprising Maximum meddling in the pricate sector...

Jun 10 2009	Russia to sell U.S. treasuries, buy IMF bonds By: Reuters The dollar slipped against a range of currencies, while U.S. Treasury yields rose after news of the Russian statement.

Jun 09 2009	The Obama Jobs Gap By: Conn Carroll - The Heritage Foundation Last Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly job report showing that the economy lost 345,000 jobs in May.

Jun 09 2009	Ten banks allowed to pay back TARP By: David Ellis - CNN Leading lenders expected to return a total of $68 billion in bailout funds to taxpayers. JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp confirm they have been approved.

Jun 09 2009	Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable By: Michael D. Tanner - Cato Institute What the Failure of the "Massachusetts Model" Tells Us about Health Care Reform

Jun 09 2009	Obama's economic spin machine By: The Washington Times The Obama administration is trying to rewrite history even as it is being made.

Jun 08 2009	Supreme Court Delays Sale of Chrysler to Fiat By: Michael J. de la Merced - New York Times The negative economic consequences of permitting an unlawful sale to proceed may well over time dramatically outweigh Chrysler’s short-term harm.

Jun 08 2009	May 2009 Unemployment Chart By: Goeff - WordPress.com Shows real unemployment against the Obama projections

Jun 07 2009	Chrysler Creditors Ask U.S. Justice to Stop Fiat Sale By: Greg Stohr and Tiffany Kary - Bloomberg

Jun 07 2009	Democrats Weigh Health Mandate as Obama Urges Taxing Wealthy By: Laura Litvan and Ryan Donmoyer - Bloomberg

Jun 07 2009	White House Advisers Push Back on Stimulus Criticism By: Fox News

Jun 07 2009	Unemployment Rates in the United States Since 1948 By: DaveManuel.com

Jun 07 2009	U.S. National Debt Clock By: DaveManuel.com Every man, woman and child in the United States currently owes $37,485 for their share of the U.S. public debt

Jun 07 2009	The Obama Stimulus: Predictions vs. Reality (Video) By: Political Math

Jun 06 2009	Here Comes Health Care Rationing By: Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

Jun 06 2009	Bond-market rout lifts mortgage cost By: Rachel Beck - MyWay

Jun 05 2009	9.4% Unemployment Rate in May By: DaveManuel.com Did you ever think that the United States would be within reach of a 10% unemployment rate again?

Jun 05 2009	US Job Losses Continue, Not as Bad as Expected By: Deborah Tate - Voice of America Friday's report from the Labor Department says 345,000 jobs were lost last month

Jun 05 2009	President Obama’s Unprecedented Debt By: Steve Keen - The Heritage Foundation It’s no wonder that during his recent trip to China US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was laughed at when he tried to persuade the Chinese that the US debt they hold was a “very safe” asset.

Jun 03 2009	Editorial: We Call It Theft By: Investors Business Daily It would indeed be interesting to hear this White House explain where, in our written Constitution, it finds the delegated power to step in, seize, and dole out ownership shares in a privately held American enterprise.

Jun 03 2009	The Failure of Obamanomics By: Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

Jun 02 2009	Oil slides below $68 as investors eye inflation By: George Jahn - MyWay

Jun 02 2009	GM Collapses Into Government's Arms By: Neil King Jr. and Sharon Terlep - Wall Street Journel

Jun 02 2009	Report: GM Sells Hummer To China By: CBS/AP

Jun 02 2009	The Austrian Cure for Economic Illness By: Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD - Lew Rockwell .com

Jun 02 2009	Flying High With Hoover and Roosevelt By: Manuel Lora - Lew Rockwell .com

Jun 02 2009	The Socialist Bailout of Wall Street By: Jacob G. Hornberger - LewRockwell.com

Jun 01 2009	Socialism, US-Style By: James A. Dorn - Cato Institute

Jun 01 2009	Obama's Deficits Put U.S. Credit Rating at Risk By: J.D. Foster, Ph.D. - The Heritage Foundation

Jun 01 2009	Indiana Wants No Part of Energy Tax By: Elisabeth Meinecke - Human Events

May 29 2009	Bond Vigilantes Confront Obama as Housing Falters By: Liz Capo McCormick and Daniel Kruger - Bloomberg

May 29 2009	Your Increasing National Debt By: Steve Keen - The Heritage Foundation

May 29 2009	Capping, Trading, and Stealing from our Children By: Nick Loris - The Heritage Foundation

May 27 2009	American capitalism gone with a whimper By: Pravda The Russians can see what we ignore

May 27 2009	Chrysler By: Chelsea Schilling - WND

May 24 2009	British banks revolt against Obama tax plan By: Louise Armitstead - London Telegraph

Apr 29 2009	Unemployment: 109 cities at 10% or higher By: Julianne Pepitone - CNNMoney.com Government survey shows jobless rate grows in all 372 metro areas, with 15% joblessness in 18 of them.

Apr 03 2009	The Real Unemployment Rate Is 15.6% By: Joe Weisenthal - The Business Insider

Mar 06 2009	Unemployment hits 25-year high By: Chris Isidore - CNNMoney.com Jobless rate hits 8.1% in February as a record-high 12.5 million people are unemployed.

Mar 06 2009	U-6 Unemployment Rate Was 14.8% in February By: DaveManuel.com The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases six different numbers every month - U-1, U-2, U-3, U-4, U-5 and U-6.

Feb 06 2009	Unemployment claims surge By: The Spokesman-Review