February CPI: a very good report, with even the chronic “problem children” getting “less bad”  – by New Deal democrat Let me cut right to the chase: the February consumer…

by Mike Kimel The Crux of the Problem in the Financial Industry A great set of lines from William Black posted at Barry Ritholtz’s Big Picture: The Jamie Dimons of…

Well if so (something I’m not asserting), it’s a Republican spending problem: Economist’s View: Per Capita Government Spending by President. Cross-posted at Asymptosis….

…substantial that they both are for. Stollar goes on to point out what he calls “a big problem” with liberalism. This is the mixture of two elements, support for federal…

Robert Borosage writes a warning about when bipartisan elites come to a consensus on solving the “problem”. Today’s elite consensus — that deficits are at crisis levels, that budgets must…

…complaining about the quality of labor. This basically proves that the argument that the incerase in unemployment is due to missmatch is wrong. If the problem were too many construction…

The Economist 28 Aug 2010 unattributed article: Updated correct link: link to article is here, h/t Movie Guy The chronic problem of exorbitantly expensive weapons is becoming acute. Robert Gates,…

…the ‘mend it’ category or the ‘end it’. Is the problem that Social Security is fundamentally broken? or that it exists at all? By the Seventies the latter question seemed…

Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt The Independent Contractor Problem Continues and Grows HT: Associated Press The IRS and many state governments are stepping up enforcement of the use of “independent contractors”…

…problem… one of the first things a life insurance company wants to know when you call them up is whether you’ve ever been turned down for life insurance. Its a…