The just released employment report of the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has begun, I believe, to at least mildly sedate those overly optimistic CNBC cheerleaders who keep braying that the...
I put together this video summary as a permanent goodbye to 2008, a rough year for economists, but a great year for Obama-ists! The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated is the perfect summation of...
With credit cards on the outs these days, old-fashioned layaway plans are on a nostalgic comeback tour. Sears, Kmart, TJMAxx, and others are bringing back the layaway, usually charging a small fee and requiring...
Wage Wars. There’s a very fine essay at Down With Tyranny (DWT) discussing and roundly criticizing the growth of the distorted claim that auto workers, on average, make $70.00 per hour. As you can...