Eric Florack on August 7th, 2022

So the Biden White House is claiming record employment.

Is this the same crowd that’s been trying to redefine “recession”? Who told us first that there was no inflation, then told us that the inflation was temporary, wasn’t the fault

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2021

From what’s left of Fox news:

December marked the first time since April that job growth shrank, and retail sales tumbled for the third straight month as a surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide triggered a fresh wave of shutdowns.

Of

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  • I note with interest, Brian Mahoney over at Radio Equalizer, pretty much echoing my thoughts of  as regards the Knoxville Shooter and the attempt tp attach him to all things right-wing. As Brian says:

    Our lefty friends need to decide

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

The misery index is now at 8.

Democrats want to portray this as the worst economy since Herbert Hoover was president.

Unfortunately, the economy is not cooperating.

Unemployment dropped to 5.0% last month.

And inflation is at 3%.

Under the

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.

The country’s economic growth during January through March was

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2008

John Lott online at Fox this morning, puts a slightly different angle on things than the Democrats want spread round:

A little perspective on the economy would be helpful. The average unemployment rate during President Clinton was 5.2 percent. The

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. “We acted robustly,” he said.

“We’ll see the effects of this pro-growth package,”

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

The Washington Shaft is finally getting around to the conclusion I’ve been saying here for years, now:

“The last recession may have started in the last months of the Clinton administration rather than at the beginning of the Bush

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Just from the feel of the thing, I’d say this is likely.

The report explained, “The never-before-seen levels of money creation were fueled by policies set by the Federal Reserve, which encouraged Congress to spend more money and kept interest

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The story is here:

From the fourth quarter of 2020 to the fourth quarter of 2022, the U.S. housing market experienced one of the most significant increases in housing prices in American history. Data provided by the Federal Reserve

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Eric Florack on October 14th, 2022
  • It’s not indigenous people’s day any more than it is the governor Mario M. Cuomo bridge.
  • For all the screaming from the left about diversity, can anybody show me a person who is giving up his job willingly to a

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Eric Florack on December 29th, 2021
Let me start this out by saying that many years ago the union movement did in fact have some nobility about it, a noble purpose. Alas, that those days are long past.

The problem with unions is quite similar in

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2020
I want you to think back… way back. Last March. Remember when we were all being told and infinitum that it was 15 days to slow/stop the spread??

Well, here’s a data point for you… we are now at day

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davidl on March 31st, 2020

As Will Rogers once said, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a recession is when you lose yours.  The media is moving to recession:

As the Press Begins Laying Off “Journalists,” Suddenly “Journalists” Discover That There Is

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2020
With a hat tip to Glen…

Less than 8 hours after Paul Krugman predicts that the market is going to go into a permanent recession, the market jumps 800 points.

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