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Now You Can Be an Economist and Forecast the Unemployment Rate
Now you can pretend to be Ben Bernanke . . . check out this cool interactive app which lets you choose the parameters of the economy and then it plots the future unemployment rate. What I really like about this app is that you can clearly see how changes in the labor pool affect the [...]
Intermission: Remy Takes on Sandra Fluke and the Obamacare Contraception Mandate
Also, you may want to check out this excellent article on the Obamacare Contraception Mandate from Mark Steyn: “Miss Fluke Goes to Washington.”
Wyoming Prepares for the End
photo credit: Steve Snodgrass With federal and state debt loads exploding, Wyoming is preparing for the worst: State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States. House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create [...]
The State of America’s Private Sector 29: December, 2011
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released their monthly personal income data for December, 2011 (pdf). The chart below shows the private sector share of personal income from January 1959 to December2011. For December, the private sector share of personal income was 70.88 percent. While the private sector continues to claw it’s way back [...]
“The Penny Plan” to Eliminate the Federal Deficit
photo credit: Robert Couse-Baker We all know that Uncle Sam’s trillion plus dollar budget deficits are unsustainable. Debt is now larger than Gross Domestic Product and we are well on our way to Greece-level debt (and that excludes our “off the book debt,” see sidebar for our true debt levels . . . around $77 [...]
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