The tax cut compromise between Obama and the GOP is now being touted as a back-door stimulus plan, one that some economists predict will create or save 3.1 million jobs. Unfortunately, the model on which those forecasts are bas…
When QE2 is complete, the Fed’s bond purchases will have injected $1.7 trillion in liquidity into the markets since 2008 in an effort to boost corporate investment in new production and new jobs in the U.S. Instead, companies …
The economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, because the private sector hired only 64,000 workers while governments cut 159,000. The jobless rate remains 9.6%. Minus the usual boosts from housing and consumers, the U.S. still lac…
“More food stamps? Or more paychecks?” Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggests that’s how the GOP should couch the national policy debate before the midterm elections. But will demonizing programs that aid the poor h…
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow blogged Tuesday that the a GOP win in November’s elections would create an explosion of U.S. job creation. One of his guests that day on The Kudlow Report was DailyFinance’s Peter Cohan, who breaks down prec…