Whoever got the lame brain idea government spending – fueled by running up massive deficits and debt – would ‘stimulate’ the economy is eating some crow now that the government’s own key indicators show no evidence of any stimulus: The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most […]

Let’s just say I find it way too convenient that a report comes out just now is discovering for the first time that the economic recession was twice as worse than anyone thought (hasn’t that been the White House excuse for a lame stimulus bill for months now?): The first 12 months of the U.S. […]

DJ Drummond makes an excellent point today regarding Presidents who have had to deal with inherited recessions: Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama each inherited a recession when they came to office. That’s not unusual, though – Presidents Kennedy, Ford, and Bush also inherited recessions when they arrived at the White House, and in fact Presidents […]