CBO All But Guarantees Fiscal Cliff Gridlock

by Bob Adelmann | 6:31 pm, November 11, 2012

When an irresistable force meets an immovable object, it’s called gridlock.

Marching Towards the Fiscal Cliff

by Bob Adelmann | 4:22 pm, November 11, 2012

I wonder when reality will set in?

What Liberties are We Actually Losing?

by Bob Adelmann | 2:13 pm, November 11, 2012

It’s good to ask questions like these every now and then, just to make sure we have good answers for them.

Pollsters Looking at Pollsters and Mittens Closing Strong

by Bob Adelmann | 7:46 am, November 5, 2012

I love it when someone sticks his neck out, and then looks around to see if anyone else is also. Hewitt is a talk show host and is great for finding out what others think and the riffing on that with his own comments. Sort of like what I do here. Hewitt thinks Romney is [...]

Looking Behind the Latest Jobs Report Numbers

by Bob Adelmann | 4:11 pm, November 4, 2012

As volatile and flimsy as the BLS numbers are, they cannot disguise an economy that is going nowhere, nor the trouble that Obama is in.

Inane Reactions to Hurricane Sandy

by Bob Adelmann | 2:08 pm, November 4, 2012

Nick Gillespie, at Reason.com, has nailed it. Three reactions to the hurricane are not only predictable but silly. The first I covered yesterday, exposing the broken window fallacy that Sandy is going to be good for business. Gillespie takes after Professor Peter Morici, as I did: At Yahoo Finance, University of Maryland economist Peter Morici [...]

Taxmageddon Only Part of the Problem

by Bob Adelmann | 10:44 am, November 4, 2012

Considering the precarious position the country is in, it’s amazing that Congress looks like it’s going to do everything it can to put off into the future – punt, kick the can, whatever you choose – to avoid making any hard decisions today. I agree with Mark Twain.

Obama Set to Unleash Tsunami of Regulations after the Election

by Bob Adelmann | 2:22 pm, November 3, 2012

“Presidents come and go but bureaucrats go on forever.” I said that at the end of this article, but I don’t really believe it. They operate with taxpayer dollars and if/when the flow of those dollars end, so do the bureaucrats. One can dream…

Political Problems for the Final Jobs Report

by Bob Adelmann | 6:46 pm, November 1, 2012

On Monday the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said it was doing everything it could to make sure that Friday’s jobs report – the last one before the election – would come out on time, despite Hurricane Sandy. The BLS is still smarting from attacks over its last report which showed an increase of 114,000 [...]

Preliminary GDP Report a Nasty October Surprise

by Bob Adelmann | 6:37 am, October 30, 2012

I didn’t mention that a lot of the GDP growth came from government spending. Gee, I wonder if that had anything to do with the election? Probably just a coincidence.

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