Economy in state outpaces US growth Adds 4,600 jobs through March The Massachusetts economy expanded at a healthy clip in the first three months of the year despite a national economic slowdown, breaking with the recent past when the state suffered longer and deeper recessions than the rest of the United States. The University of […]
Special May Day Whittle by ilsm: GAO Testimony Apr 29 2008 on the widely commented upon DoD acquisition problems with the 95 Systems they reviewed this year. States part of the problems at the “What GAO Found” page: “In addition, only a small percentage of programs used two key systems engineering tools- preliminary design reviews […]
Cactus notes: James Pethokoukis continues misinforming readers (why does he do this? is it some sort of a hobby?) out at US News and World Report: Out: Recession. In: Expansion. That’s my quick take ontoday’s first-quarter gross domestic product number, which showed thatthe economy grew 0.6 percent in the first quarter. Nevermind that these figures […]
On Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton will appear in a pretaped interview on Fox News‘ “The O’Reilly Factor.”
Steve Benen at The Carpetbagger Report comments on the President’s reassurances at a White House press conference today, keeping his tax cuts as a way out of the slowdown. In all seriousness, how many people who are worried about theirfamilies’ finances right now are going to say, “I’ve been reallyworried, but now that I know […]
The post on GDP and inflation was removed for inaccuracies in statistics.
By Noni Mausa In the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur and his companions come to a cave which is guarded by a terrible monster. The king and his men scoff when they see that the monster has every resemblance to an ordinary white rabbit. But as they approach the cave, the […]
“Leaders. In Iraq, they call the behavioral health center ‘the pink house.’ Commanders tell soldiers to get on down to the pink house.” Quoted from a report by Penny Coleman, wife of a veteran who committed suicide two years ago, about the Department of Defense’s sixth annual Suicide Prevention Conference. Finally in January 2008 the […]
Hat tip to reader TinMan. Steve Liesman, senior economic advisor to CNBC TV, predicts optimism for the rebate effect, just like in 2001. TinMan says: So, that stimulus check is going to give us not only a good “jolt” to the economy but trigger a bounce as well? Hmmmmmm….
K harris suggests we try these rules out in our discussions about global warming: (lifted from comments cactus style) Just a few rules of thumb for discussion like this one – discussion in which we mere mortals are left dealing with data that has been collected from places we can’t go, interpreted through methods we […]