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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,

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

Numberscruncher: FedEx and Economic Recovery

Ann Logue September 22, 2009 3

Ben Bernanke said that the recession is over, but what he thinks isn’t important. The more important arbiter of the business cycle, Federal Express, reported its earnings last week. Profits were down 53% from

Numberscruncher: The Poorer Americans

Ann Logue September 15, 2009 6

With pure obviousness, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that median household income in the United States fell to $50,303 in 2008, a 3.6 percent decline from 2007. Adjusted for inflation, that is the biggest

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.

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

It’s Payday!

Ann Logue March 31, 2009 5

Do you deserve a raise? Of course you do. Everyone thinks that he or she is underpaid. That’s just the nature of the working world. Teachers think that they are underpaid; AIG employees who

Pop Politico: “The Great Transition”

Ted Asregadoo January 27, 2009 13

As the news about the global economic downturn goes from bad to worse, we’re at a point where government inaction is not a palatable option.Â Something needs to be done, and countermeasures against further