Collecting My Thoughts

This Friday the Lakeside Women's Club book review is "Nomandland; surviving America in the 21st century" by Jessica Bruder. (2...

https://www.bostonfed.org/news-and-events/speeches/2016/after-the-great-recession-a-not-so-great-recovery.aspx    This is the link to the su...

Obama raised taxes during a recession, imposed new regulations, spent billions on unworkable programs, ruined the health insurance of millio...

Bill Maher says he hopes there is another recession just so Trump won't get elected. Obama didn't fix the recession--it was over (Ju...

The academic definition of a recession set by the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research described the ...

Obama returned to Springfield, Illinois--a Democrat controlled state with a Republican governor in deep budget doo-doo--to give a delusional...

Jeff Jacoby writes: Barack Obama claims that the economy, "by every metric," is better than when he came into office. In truth, a ...

“The RAND Corporation has published a thorough analysis of Obamacare's effect on health insurance that should have put an end to the Ob...

According to a Pew Report on what the American public believes has happened in the economy, “72% say that, in general, the government’s pol...

The President is on the campaign trail for his legacy talking about the economic recovery. This recession recovery has been the slowest on r...

My wife and I bought our perfect house in South Carolina in 2007. Acre lot, backed up to a private golf course, 4000 sq.ft., 3 car garage. I...

After reading the butterfly kisses account of the “recovering economy” in the Washington Post (all jobs lost during the recession are back, ...

"Because Obama speaks with such authority, it often takes several repetitions before I realize that what he’s saying is total nonsense....

Notice the difference between the recession Bush inherited, and the one Obama inherited. It took Bush only a couple of years even with 9/11,...

1) June 2009 - Present: 7.5 percent growth 2) April 1958 - April 1960: 11.7 percent growth 3) May 1954 - September 1957: 13.4 percent gr...

If Obama hadn't tried to take over 1/6 of the economy throwing all plans for development, invention and expansion into a free fall, th...

Actually, President Obama has learned the lessons from the 1930s Great Depression well.  The Great Depression was extended by FDR who rais...

"More than 90 percent of U.S. metropolitan areas have failed to recoup the jobs lost during the recession that ended in 2009, a report ...

Increases in minimum wage are very popular with politicians--Democrats run on it, and Republicans don't want to appear to be meanies, so...

But they don't say it that way, do they? Sometimes you hear, twenty-six years, or even "the 1930s." FDR is never blamed for t...