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Numberscruncher: The Recovery, Jobs or No Jobs

Ann Logue March 10, 2010 3

The March issue of The Atlantic has a thoroughly depressing article about how employment might not pick up when the economy recovers. As if that wasn’t enough to send you to the liquor cabinet,

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Numberscruncher: Trickling Down and Crowding Out

Ann Logue October 6, 2009 0

Americans have always had a fairly violent reaction to taxes, but they aren't inherently evil -- and in her latest Numberscruncher, Ann Logue hits the Teabaggers with a cold splash of reality

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Numberscruncher: Rational Regulation

Ann Logue July 28, 2009 1
The health-care crisis and the financial crisis have a problem in common, which is how the government can regulate those markets to make things better, not worse.

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Numberscruncher: What Goes Around

Ann Logue June 9, 2009 5
For the month of May, the unemployment rate clocked in at 9.4%, the highest level since the early 1980s. It felt like old times. I grew up

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