Obamanomics: Spending $2.5 million per job created, losing half a million on each car sold

By: John Hayward  |  April 23rd at 03:15 PM  | 

More wild and crazy adventures in Barack Obama’s command economy, courtesy of the Washington Examiner: It’s more than a little disheartening when the chief executive officer of one of America’s most storied Fortune 500 corporations is “comfortable” with the fact that his company created a mere 10 jobs with a $25 million grant under President Obama’s economic stimulus program in 2010. The CEO in question is | Read More »

Surely You’re Joking, Dr. Chu!

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 05:31 PM  | 

The creation of a incredible mythology for departing Sec. of Energy Steven Chu is underway. Incredible, as in “lacking credibility”.

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Steven Chu to leave Department of Energy?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 19th at 10:00 PM  | 

Interesting. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu may be leaving the post during the next term of the Obama administration. Among those on the list to replace Chu are Ritter; Tom Steyer, a Democrat from California; former North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan; Susan Tierney, a former assistant energy secretary; and Steve Westley, a California businessman, according to The Washington Post. More at Hot Air, which notes | Read More »

Is the Solyndra Scandal Obama’s Watergate?

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  September 12th at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Europe’s tanking markets, the opposition to Obama’s call for a payroll tax cut, and is the Solyndra scandal is Obama’s Watergate? We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email | Read More »

The Solyndra Green Recovery That Wasn’t

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  September 9th at 03:15 PM  | 

With news this past week of Solyndra’s bankruptcy, firing of 1,100 employees and federal agents now raiding the homes of the executives, I thought it would be instructive for all to go back to where this began. Two years ago on September 4th of 2009, Vice President Biden was live via satellite to praise a little known solar company that was going to help America | Read More »

Obama Earmarks $1 Billion in Stimulus Money for Company in Illinois

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  August 6th at 10:15 AM  | 

The biggest earmark in American history has been doled out to a company in Illinois, the President’s home state, in the name of green jobs.  The President’s $862 billion Stimulus plan has been an abysmal failure.  It provided states and localities with billions in bailout moneys, funded wasteful projects like the Monkey cocaine study at Wake Forest and given false hope to Americans that the President has | Read More »