…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 Massachusetts said yesterday that 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…

…other side, these people say, are staunch economic conservatives like Keith B. Hennessey, the new director of Mr. Bush’s National Economic Council. They have reservations about the need for an…

…to pursue economic and educational opportunities not available in their home countries and to build better lives for themselves and their families. As a result, they have little to gain…

…change from 1995 to 2005 to overall economic growth and/ or individual economic mobility. But this is misleading as the dominant factor driving the changes reported in the Treasury study…

…budget surpluses. Brad is right – but I’m not holding my breath expecting President Bush to listen to such good economic reasoning. Update: Brian Riedl asks “Is spending restraint really…

…enjoyed a mediocre economic expansion since the Bush tax cuts, and the evidence from macroeconomic modeling that show that the tax cuts had a tiny impact on the growth of…

…issue of economic security and how some in the GOP are proposing ways to undermine the protections of Social Security, see Jonathan Cohn who echoes some of the wisdom on…

…most of the paper’s economic editorials. Tritch lists her qualifications as having degrees in German and journalism, as well as years of writing about personal finance for Money magazine where…

…a credible judiciary. Mentality: drum up support for economic and social reforms, encourage innovation, and place economic success at the forefront of the political discourse. Economic incentives: adopt sound economic…