Economy

    Don’t Settle: Rick Perry for President.

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  December 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

    Not a site endorsement; this is the view of the undersigned RedState Contributors. If this website has a purpose – if any conservative website or publication has a purpose – it must begin with electing conservatives to significant public offices. We have the chance to nominate a conservative for president and win the White House in 2012. We can fumble that chance away by settling | Read More »

    Notes From “The Food Stamp Recovery”

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  May 9th at 02:30 PM  | 

    In case you missed it, Jay Cost had a great piece on Friday on “the Food Stamp recovery”, laying out the ways in which the currently-underway “recovery” is the weakest in memory. His bracing conclusion? [I]f the economic recovery does not begin to show substantial improvement, the likes of which we have not really seen in the last two years, and if the GOP nominates | Read More »

    Nope, No Recession – Yet

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  July 31st at 08:50 AM  | 

    Is the U.S. economy in a recession? The Democrats and the media have been saying so for a while, but the funny thing is, “recession” is a word and it has a meaning, and the fact that the economy is throwing off a lot of scary indicators and people in particular businesses or jurisdictions are losing jobs may mean the economy has problems, but it | Read More »