What Bernanke Should Say About Unemployment: David Leonhardt Gets It Wrong

By: Francis Cianfrocca (Diary)  |  April 27th at 10:10 AM  | 

Dave Leonhardt has a piece in today’s New York Times (“Holding Bernanke Accountable,” no link due to paywall). I’m sad about this piece because Leonhardt is a very knowledgeable guy whom I always enjoy reading. But I find that he has a tendency to fall back on conventional wisdom. At times I feel that his research is limited to what he reads in his own | Read More »

Killing the Private-Sector: What Democrats in Congress couldn’t do for union bosses, the NLRB will

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 5th at 08:00 AM  | 

As unemployment continues to rise as a result of the Obama administration’s anti-business climate, the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board is about do what a Democrat-controlled Congress could not do—give unions the ability to kill unionize more companies. We’ve known this was coming for a while now, but after union bosses blew a few hundred million of their members’ money trying to save what Democrats | Read More »