Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Side Solutions, And Not Go Over to the Supply Side
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 16th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
Why the President Must Come Up With Demand-Side Solutions, And Not Go Over to the Supply Side
“I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen,” President Obama said Tuesday, amid the flood of bad economic news, including last Friday’s alarming jobs…
Portnoy’s Revenge
Not long after Philip Roth published Portnoy’s Complaint, Jacqueline Susann went on the Johnny Carson show. Susann, we remember, had become famous for her pulp novel Valley of the Dolls, which triangulated, in what seemed an all-American way, ambition, sex…
Jamie Dimon’s Bizarre Idea About Why The Recovery Has Stalled
According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation. I’m not making this up. At a financial conference today, Dimon told Fed chief Ben Bernanke there’s no longer any reason to crack down…