Month: July 2009
-
A Tip for Business Owners Navigating in a “Jobless Recovery”
The economy is sending mixed signals — which at least is an improvement over just a few months ago. Newsweek reports today that “the Fed has become both more optimistic and more pessimistic,” with GNP expected to recover slightly more quickly than previously expected, even while unemployment creeps slightly higher. The term “jobless recovery” is […]
-
It Didn’t Work the First Time, So Now: Porkulus II
At The American, the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute, Phil Levy writes: As unemployment rises ominously toward 10 percent and the economy continues to appear listless, leading economic voices have begun to call for a second fiscal stimulus. The first stimulus was controversial among economists; it seemed to discard a great deal of what […]
-
It Turns Out Today Is My Blogiversary
It must have been embedded in the recesses of my memory, because something just made me check the archives. It was one year ago today that I made my first substantive post on this blog. (The first of a handful of frivolous posts was more than five years ago.) I led with a snarky prediction […]
-
Rethinking an Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nukes
Will the Sunni Saudis side with the Jews against Shiite Iran? The Sunday Times today reports that Saudia Arabia has quietly let Israel know that “that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.” Israel’s Prime Minister promptly denied it. But […]
-
The Whole World Celebrates America’s Independence Day
As a big fan of the concept of American exceptionalism, I’m always happy when our country gets its props in the broader world.  So I was glad to see a CNN item about July 4th celebrations around the globe, organized by Yanks living away from home in cities like Buenos Aires, Sydney, Rome and London. […]
-
Pace Bolton, I’m Betting Against an Israeli Air Strike on Iran’s Nuke Facilities
Osirak was quite a hike, and Iran is even farther In today’s Washington Post, former UN Ambassador John Bolton stops just short of openly rooting for Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities: Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of […]